Knock the PlayBook all you want, but by all accounts it appears to be doing what Motorola Inc.’s Xoom did in its first two months of availability, according to RBC Capital Markets.
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“I’ll take your iPad and raise you 10” – seems to be Intel Corp.’s message to tablet hungry consumers, as the firm readies itself for the launch of almost a dozen new devices running on its own Atom chips at Computex, Taipei.
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Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.While …
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Nvidia Corp. CEO Jen-Hsun Huang believes the problem with Android tablets rests firmly with those attempting to sell them. Talking to Cnet about why tablets like the Motorola Inc. Xoom …
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Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to …
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“About 900 units of the BlackBerry PlayBook have been determined to be faulty”
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1 in 5 smartphone owners 'check-in' on their phone: 70% of 'check-in' from an Android or Apple phone
by Sylvie Barakby Sylvie Barak16.7 million U.S. mobile subscribers (7.1% of the U.S. population) used location-based “check-in” services in March according to market research firm ComScore Inc., with 12.7 million checking in from a …
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San Jose, Calif. – One in five people check their Facebook straight from their phone while still in bed in the morning, according to Michael Bjorn, head of research at …
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AT&T Inc. (T) plans to spend $1 billion this year to deploy network-based cloud and mobility solutions for large and small business across a series of vertical markets. AT&T is …
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Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to …
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Telefónica and ZTE Unveil The New Light Pro, The First Mass Market Tablet
by Sandra Cuyaby Sandra CuyaZTE | May 4, 2011 | Press Release Movistar to exclusively sell new tablet device from May in Spain ZTE, the world’s fourth largest mobile phone maker, is aiming to …
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With mixed reviews coming in for the BlackBerry PlayBook, one wouldn’t think RIM would have much cause for overconfidence just yet, but according to adds splashed across the pages of the New York Times this morning, it appears the BlackBerry maker is brimming with bravado.
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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.
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The combined revenue of the four major mobile application stores is projected to jump nearly 80% this year, according to a new report from iSuppli Corp. Following 2010, when Apple …
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RIM rumored to launch 10-inch PlayBook by Christmas, BlackBerry OS 7 delayed
by Sylvie Barakby Sylvie BarakResearch In Motion Ltd. (RIMM) could release a 10-inch version of its PlayBook tablet by year’s end and OS7 could be delayed until late August according to the latest rumors. …
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LTE is gaining momentum fast, according to a recent report by ABI Research, which claims there will be 16 million mobile LTE subscribers by the end of this year. LTE …
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With Apple and Samsung warring, the sticky situation of who will manufacture chips for upcoming iDevices is becoming a hot topic of speculation. Samsung has been Apple’s manufacturing work horse …
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Despite a strong majority of retailers having a mobile strategy in place, the promise of mobile shopping has yet to ring true at the cash register, though it is steadily …
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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.
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BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) is planning to expand the role of one of its greatest assets, BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), through a just announced acquisition of Germany-based ubitexx …
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BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) has released an update to its Playbook tablet software which includes support for video chatting between PlayBooks, a new Facebook …
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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.
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The challenge with mobile applications remains that while every brand wants one, consumers are constantly using new platforms to communicate. Thus, applications are going beyond smart phones and tablets to …
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Sony Corp. (SNE) is the newest company to try its hand in the tablet market, showing off two tablets that operate on Honeycomb, also known as Google Inc.’s Android 3.0, …
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Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) said it is making its OpenPlug Studio toolkit available for free to application developers as the network vendor tries to flesh out the ecosystem for more enterprise end …