A Look at 10 High-End Android Tablets
The Register
There is really no such thing as a branded Android tablet. Instead, consumers have a range of devices from the usual Android suspects, including HTC, Samsung and Motorola, as well as machines from computer rather than phone wallahs, like Acer, Asus, Lenovo and Sony. The end result is confusion in the mind of Joe Public
Japanese E-Commerce Giant Buys Kobo: Watch Out Amazon?
Reuters
Rakuten, the Japanese Internet services and e-commerce company, intends to acquire all issued and outstanding shares of Kobo for cash. Kobo's services are available on Kobo-branded e-readers as well as other devices, including Samsung's Galaxy Tab and Research In Motion's PlayBook.
Airline Uses iPads as In-Flight Entertainment Device (and Cash Machine)
Padgadget
Jetstar, which travels mainly in Australia, will be offering iPads for use as in-flight entertainment devices for $10-$15 per flight. Considering the cost for installing seat-back screens it may make good financial sense to approach airline-provided multimedia in this manner.
White Box Manufacturers May Push Harder into Tablet Market
Digitimes
White-box players in China are still set to launch new tablet PC products in the second quarter of 2012, according to sources from the supply chain in China. Since the average cost of a 7-inch white-box tablet PC is only about U.S. $47 compared to Amazon's Kindle Fire, white-box tablet PCs still have an advantage in cost.
How Barnes & Noble's Retail Footprint Will Help It Battle Amazon
Mashable
Walk into a Barnes & Noble and you’ll see shoppers browsing book tables or flipping through a stack of possible purchases while they sip a coffee from an in-store Starbucks. Many of those same customers are likely going to wander over to the Nook’s front-and-center location as well — even if they weren’t particularly in the market for an e-reader or Android tablet in the first place.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Today's Headlines
Wired's First Impressions on NOOK Tablet
Wired
Indeed, the Nook Tablet is a serious, high-performing device for kids too young to sport a smartphone or iPad, and who don’t plow through enough books to warrant a Nook Simple Touch or plain-vanilla Kindle, but who could benefit from an inexpensive, highly mobile device that can do a little bit of everything.
Barnes & Noble Unveils Its Answer to Amazon's Kindle Fire
The Los Angeles Times
Company CEO William Lynch, Jr., knocked the Fire. "The Kindle Fire is a vending machine for Amazon services — they've said it themselves," he said at the company's flagship store in New York's Union Square during the Nook Tablet unveiling. "In one word, we're more open" in allowing users to get their music and video content from wherever they want.
Barnes & Noble Finds Nook in Book Market
The Wall Street Journal
The NOOK Tablet has potential to fill a profitable niche in a still-fast-growing market. At $249, it's modestly more expensive than Kindle Fire at $199, but half the price of the iPad, which sells for $499 and up.
NOOK Tablet Ignites Latest Chapter in the Tablet Wars
The New York Times
The unveiling of the new tablet set up what is sure to be a heated competition between Barnes & Noble, Amazon and Apple, maker of the iPad, for the quickly expanding group of consumers who will shop for color tablets this holiday season. Amazon’s Kindle Fire retails for $199 and will start shipping next Monday.
Wired
Indeed, the Nook Tablet is a serious, high-performing device for kids too young to sport a smartphone or iPad, and who don’t plow through enough books to warrant a Nook Simple Touch or plain-vanilla Kindle, but who could benefit from an inexpensive, highly mobile device that can do a little bit of everything.
Barnes & Noble Unveils Its Answer to Amazon's Kindle Fire
The Los Angeles Times
Company CEO William Lynch, Jr., knocked the Fire. "The Kindle Fire is a vending machine for Amazon services — they've said it themselves," he said at the company's flagship store in New York's Union Square during the Nook Tablet unveiling. "In one word, we're more open" in allowing users to get their music and video content from wherever they want.
Barnes & Noble Finds Nook in Book Market
The Wall Street Journal
The NOOK Tablet has potential to fill a profitable niche in a still-fast-growing market. At $249, it's modestly more expensive than Kindle Fire at $199, but half the price of the iPad, which sells for $499 and up.
NOOK Tablet Ignites Latest Chapter in the Tablet Wars
The New York Times
The unveiling of the new tablet set up what is sure to be a heated competition between Barnes & Noble, Amazon and Apple, maker of the iPad, for the quickly expanding group of consumers who will shop for color tablets this holiday season. Amazon’s Kindle Fire retails for $199 and will start shipping next Monday.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Today's Headlines
Apple to Retain 75% of Tablet Market for Foreseeable Future
AllThingsD
With its competitors unable to field a true iPad rival, Apple’s tablet continues to dominate the market that it created. And with a true rival yet to emerge, that dominance will likely persist for some time, further reinforced by the upcoming holiday shopping season.
Dell's $859 Tablet Available for Pre-Order
Endgadget
Dell's coy enterprise slate, the Latitude ST is now available for pre-order with an estimated delivery date of November 29 and an $859 price tag.If your too impatient to wait for Windows 8, this one's sporting Microsoft's seventh generation, weighs a hefty 816g -- nearly twice as much as the BlackBerry PlayBook -- and contains a 1.5GHz Intel Atom Z670 processor.
Fake iPads Hitting the Market
Padgadget
Crooks will approach you showing off a perfectly good iPad. Once they have you hooked they pass off a bubble-wrapped ‘iPad’ pulled from a FedEx box. This bubble wrapped unit could be just about anything, though the ones they have caught are plexi-glass frames coated in duct tape with a Best Buy pricing label on the front.
HTC to Launch New Tablet in 2012
Reuters
HTC Corp , the world's No.5 smartphone maker, said on Monday it will launch a new tablet model next year, its first since a debut model in February.
AllThingsD
With its competitors unable to field a true iPad rival, Apple’s tablet continues to dominate the market that it created. And with a true rival yet to emerge, that dominance will likely persist for some time, further reinforced by the upcoming holiday shopping season.
Dell's $859 Tablet Available for Pre-Order
Endgadget
Dell's coy enterprise slate, the Latitude ST is now available for pre-order with an estimated delivery date of November 29 and an $859 price tag.If your too impatient to wait for Windows 8, this one's sporting Microsoft's seventh generation, weighs a hefty 816g -- nearly twice as much as the BlackBerry PlayBook -- and contains a 1.5GHz Intel Atom Z670 processor.
Fake iPads Hitting the Market
Padgadget
Crooks will approach you showing off a perfectly good iPad. Once they have you hooked they pass off a bubble-wrapped ‘iPad’ pulled from a FedEx box. This bubble wrapped unit could be just about anything, though the ones they have caught are plexi-glass frames coated in duct tape with a Best Buy pricing label on the front.
HTC to Launch New Tablet in 2012
Reuters
HTC Corp , the world's No.5 smartphone maker, said on Monday it will launch a new tablet model next year, its first since a debut model in February.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Today's Headlines
Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet to Be Announced Monday
AllThingsD
It will cost $249; $50 more than Amazon's Kindle Fire. But it will have more memory and a faster processor.
Amazon's Next Kindle Fire Will Have Larger Screen
DigiTimes
Amazon is likely to change its product roadmap by shifting the display size of its next-generation Kindle Fire to 8.9-inch instead of 10.1-inch as originally planned, according to sources in Amazon's supply chain.
AllThingsD
It will cost $249; $50 more than Amazon's Kindle Fire. But it will have more memory and a faster processor.
Amazon's Next Kindle Fire Will Have Larger Screen
DigiTimes
Amazon is likely to change its product roadmap by shifting the display size of its next-generation Kindle Fire to 8.9-inch instead of 10.1-inch as originally planned, according to sources in Amazon's supply chain.BusinessInsider
Apple executives are saying that the lowpriced Kindle Fire could actually be a good thing for the iPad because it introduces another level of fragmentation in the Android platform.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Today's Headlines
Review of Lenovo's New ThinkPad
USA Today
Critic Ed Baig: "The tablet fuses business needs with entertainment and runs Android version 3.1 Honeycomb. It's about an inch taller than an iPad 2 and thicker...If you're looking for a tablet that mixes business and pleasure, ThinkPad fits the bill."
Kindle Owners Will Now Be Able to Borrow Books from Amazon
The Wall Street Journal
Amazon is launching a digital-book lending library that will be available only to owners of its Kindle and Kindle Fire devices who are also subscribers to its Amazon Prime program.
USA Today
Critic Ed Baig: "The tablet fuses business needs with entertainment and runs Android version 3.1 Honeycomb. It's about an inch taller than an iPad 2 and thicker...If you're looking for a tablet that mixes business and pleasure, ThinkPad fits the bill."
Kindle Owners Will Now Be Able to Borrow Books from Amazon
The Wall Street Journal
Amazon is launching a digital-book lending library that will be available only to owners of its Kindle and Kindle Fire devices who are also subscribers to its Amazon Prime program.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Today's Headlines
The Inside Story of Why Microsoft's Tablet Died
CNET
The story of Microsoft's Courier has only been told in pieces. And nothing has been disclosed publicly about the infighting that led to the innovative device's death. This article was pieced together through interviews with 18 current and former Microsoft executives, as well as contractors and partners who worked on the project.
Verifone Buys Global Bay in Bid to Boost iPads at Retail
AllThingsD
VeriFone, the largest maker of cash registers and other payment processing devices, has acquired Global Bay, which develops software that helps retailers use alternate devices, such as iPads, as payment options.
5 Ways the New Nook Can Compete with the Kindle Fire
PaidContent
Reasons #1 and #2: Focus on children; focus on women.
Apple May Lose Tablet Dominance
eWeek
Apple will lose its overwhelming dominance of the consumer tablet space within the next three years, according to a prediction from analyst Jack Gold. His research note also predicts that Microsoft will own roughly 10 percent of the consumer tablet market by that 2014-2015.
CNET
The story of Microsoft's Courier has only been told in pieces. And nothing has been disclosed publicly about the infighting that led to the innovative device's death. This article was pieced together through interviews with 18 current and former Microsoft executives, as well as contractors and partners who worked on the project.
Verifone Buys Global Bay in Bid to Boost iPads at Retail
AllThingsD
VeriFone, the largest maker of cash registers and other payment processing devices, has acquired Global Bay, which develops software that helps retailers use alternate devices, such as iPads, as payment options.
5 Ways the New Nook Can Compete with the Kindle Fire
PaidContent
Reasons #1 and #2: Focus on children; focus on women.
Apple May Lose Tablet Dominance
eWeek
Apple will lose its overwhelming dominance of the consumer tablet space within the next three years, according to a prediction from analyst Jack Gold. His research note also predicts that Microsoft will own roughly 10 percent of the consumer tablet market by that 2014-2015.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Today's Headlines
Mystery Announcement Coming Monday from Barnes & Noble
The Los Angeles Times
Is Barnes & Noble Inc. set to launch a new Nook? So far, Barnes & Noble hasn't announced any new Nook tablet plans, but there is considerable speculation that it's all heading that direction after the bookstore chain and e-reader maker invited the media to a Nook-related event in New York on Monday.
iPads Making Huge Inroads in the Educational Market
AllThingsD
Nearly 1,000 K-12 schools have an iPad one-to-one program. In other words, at minimum, they are providing an entire classroom of students with their own iPad to use throughout their academic school day.
HP TouchPads Now Selling for $149
Business Insider
The catch: you have to buy a new HP or Compaq computer at Best Buy.
Tablets May Eclipse PCs as the Main Computing Device
Blorge
Apple believes that as the price of tablets comes down and the technology improves more people will be tempted to purchase one, and possibly at the expense of upgrading their PC.
Kindle Fire Increases Video Content with ABC-Disney Deal
MocoNews
In last week’s earnings call, Amazon said it will continue to push hard into streaming video. Now, in a new licensing deal with Disney-ABC, Amazon Prime members can stream shows like Grey’s Anatomy, Lost and Spider-Man for free.
The Los Angeles Times
Is Barnes & Noble Inc. set to launch a new Nook? So far, Barnes & Noble hasn't announced any new Nook tablet plans, but there is considerable speculation that it's all heading that direction after the bookstore chain and e-reader maker invited the media to a Nook-related event in New York on Monday.
iPads Making Huge Inroads in the Educational Market
AllThingsD
Nearly 1,000 K-12 schools have an iPad one-to-one program. In other words, at minimum, they are providing an entire classroom of students with their own iPad to use throughout their academic school day.
HP TouchPads Now Selling for $149
Business Insider
The catch: you have to buy a new HP or Compaq computer at Best Buy.
Tablets May Eclipse PCs as the Main Computing Device
Blorge
Apple believes that as the price of tablets comes down and the technology improves more people will be tempted to purchase one, and possibly at the expense of upgrading their PC.
Kindle Fire Increases Video Content with ABC-Disney Deal
MocoNews
In last week’s earnings call, Amazon said it will continue to push hard into streaming video. Now, in a new licensing deal with Disney-ABC, Amazon Prime members can stream shows like Grey’s Anatomy, Lost and Spider-Man for free.
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