Aggressive sales of smaller tablets triggered a revised tablet sales forecast today by IDC, which upped its projections by 11% for 2013 and said Android would supplant Apple's iOS as the dominant operating system this year. "The shift to ...
Improving Windows 8 is Microsoft’s best bet for grabbing a larger share of tablet sales over the next four years, but there doesn’t seem much it can do to accelerate the projected slow growth of Windows RT over the same time ...
Lenovo showcased its ThinkPad Tablet 2 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month, and within days had it on sale globally, including through its online store. At 10mm thick and weighing from 565g, it is a stylish, ...
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IDC said on Friday that Microsoft shipped an estimated 900,000 Surface RT tablets last quarter, barely missing the top five device makers, and illustrating that demand was “muted at best”. “There is no question that ...
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In our latest tablet Ratings, the 10.1-inch Google Nexus 10 rated as highly as the Apple iPad among Wi-Fi only models, becoming the first full-sized tablet to do so since the original iPad was introduced in 2010. At $400, the 16GB Nexus ...
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Computerworld-Apple's new 7.9-in.iPad mini will be a huge hit with business users as well as consumers,several industry analysts predicted Tuesday. Why? It starts with the$329 price tag for a Wi-Fi-only 16 GB version,making it ...
Computerworld-Apple will continue to dominate the world's tablet market through 2016 if it launches a smaller iPad this year,according to research firm IDC. In a revised five-year forecast,IDC said last month that the addition of a ...
An aggressive iPad Mini cannibalization rate could add as few as 3 million tablets to Apple's bottom line in what is shaping up to be a record total for the quarter, an analyst said today. Cannibalization -- as opposed to replacement -- ...
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Apple kick-started pre-orders of the iPad Mini early today, and within hours, sold out the white model in all three Wi-Fi configurations. Pre-sales for the iPad Mini -- at 7.9-in., Apple's first downsized tablet -- started just after ...
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In the battle for the hearts and minds of enterprise mobile developers, Apple's iOS has taken a commanding lead as businesses show concern over Android, according to a recent survey of mobile developers by Appcelerator and IDC. Does ...
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