The market for PCs and laptops may be weak but tablet shipments continue to rise. Based on robust demand in the fourth quarter, market researcher IDC raised its worldwide tablet shipments forecast in 2011 to 63.3 million units, up from its previous projection of 62.5 million units. Tablet shipments into sales channels in the third […]
What do Indian newspapers like Times of India, Indian Express, Deccan Chronicle, Business Standard, Economic Times, India West, Udayavani, IBNLive, NDTV and Network18 (last three are TV channels) have in common. Over the last few months, all these media publications have put out iPad versions of their content. We love our iPad and are addicted […]
America is poised for an explosion in tablet use. You can’t travel by plane, train or bus in this country without seeing a tablet in someone’s hands. Go to a park, and there’s a bunch of teenagers lolling on the ground with a tablet in their hand. A lot of the tablets in consumers hands […]
For the next couple of days, y’all are going to be bombarded with articles on Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablet. The 7-inch Android-based tablet is already in the hands of consumers and early reviews are kind of mixed with some not impressed with its Silk browser. The below chart from Indian market researcher Social Nuggets […]
Sometimes a picture video is worth a million trillion words:
As almost universally expected, Amazon will launch its tablet Wednesday at an event in New York City. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos himself will do the honors. Dubbed Kindle Fire, the device is said to be a 7-inch touchscreen tablet running a custom version of Google’s Android software. Pricing for the Kindle Fire is still hush-hush. […]