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A little while ago we discussed how analyst predictions about Apple’s iPad dominating the tablet market for the next four to five years seemed broadly plausible, despite the historical inaccuracies of those same analyst’s long-term forecasts. Today numbers released by research firm Nielsen indicate the iPad’s inevitable slide may have already begun.

In News Corp.’s quarterly earnings call yesterday there was good and bad news for the media giant – although mostly bad. TV revenues grew, movie revenues were reasonable, however Murdoch’s online division, which includes the likes of MySpace and The Daily, lost a massive $165 million in the first three months of the year.

Finally, the demo so many people have been waiting for emerged from the BlackBerry World conference in Orlando Florida on Wednesday, as RIM showed off its BlackBerry PlayBook seamlessly playing Android apps on its new Android App Player.

Although Apple’s iTunes is still the dominant force in digital music – so dominant as to make all its competitors look like hilarious, insignificant specks – the competition are lining up to attempt to slay the Jobsian giant.

Hollywood is rather adept at telling compelling stories, and the latest plot to come out of the LA studios concerns Apple’s third generation tablet, already in the advanced planning stages and very much 3D, we’re told.

Ericsson | May 3, 2011 | Press Release Aircel subscribers to get better localized information through Ericsson’s Mobile Positioning System (MPS) for Location Based Services (LBS) Ericsson is the sole supplier …

Facial recognition is still a touchy subject in the tech world, all the more so when it comes to mobile and wireless. But while some balk at the idea of Big Brother in our pockets, others are already wishing it was already a feature on their smartphone.

Wireless giant Qualcomm is serving up something sure to make mobile lovers everywhere salivate with anticipation – videos of its new 1.5GHz third generation SnapDragon processor in action.

It’s been fairly obvious for a while that Amazon is planning to release a fully-fledged tablet. Having already got their hardware feet well and truly wet with the Kindle, the online retail giant has been slowly putting the building blocks in place for their own tablet ecosystem built atop Android. Now rumours are beginning to circle that they have tapped giant OEM Quanta to build the device, to be released later this year.

It would seem that Sony wasn’t content with losing only 77 million users’ details, and has now smashed the 100 million mark with another leak of personal information, this time through Sony Online Entertainment, a game development house specialising in online RPGs such as EverQuest and Star Wars Galaxies.

The Hindu Business Line | May 2, 2011 To invest Rs 1,000 cr this year NEW DELHI, MAY 2: Spice Mobility Ltd on Monday announced that it will invest Rs 1,000 …