• Cheaper Windows RT Tablets Are On The Way
    [June 5, 2013] Nobody really wants Windows RT. That much was obvious when manufacturers started to pull their Windows RT tablets from store shelves. Now Microsoft is trying to increase interest in RT with a new pricing strategy.
  • Google Play Coming To Nook HD Tablets
    [May 8, 2013] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.
  • Review: Microsoft Surface RT, Acer Iconia W5
    [April 17, 2013] I compare three very different tablets, the Apple iPad 3, the Microsoft Surface RT and the Acer Iconia W5 and find that the iPad’s a bit overpriced in the market, the Acer’s design is intriguing, but the Surface is really the best non-iPad tablet I’ve seen, and if you’re a Windows user, it’s a home [...]
  • Easy content-sharing to your Kindle
    [March 26, 2013] Some years ago, Amazon made my blog available as a subscription option for Kindle users. It would cost you 99 pence a month; in return, you’d get all my content delivered to your Kindle device (or Kindle app on your PC, smartphone or tablet) as it was published.
  • Barnes & Noble Declined In Revenue During The Holidays
    [March 4, 2013] After the holidays, Barnes & Noble said that sales of its Nook hardware and eBook business were both starting to fall. In fact, Nook revenues reportedly dropped 12 percent in the time leading up to the holidays. Now the company’s third quarter results are out, and it’s not pretty.
  • Surface Pro’s $900 Price Tag Is Defended By Microsoft
    [February 13, 2013] The Surface Pro will be launching on February 9 for $900. That’s only for the 64GB version as the 128GB model will go for $1,000. It costs even more when you throw in the touch or typepad, and other accessories. Isn’t this all a little too much? Tami Reller, Windows Finance and Marketing Chief, doesn’t [...]
  • Tablets and Smartphones Account for One-Fourth of All Paid Clicks
    [January 23, 2013] The Search Agency has released its quarterly State of Paid Search Report, which, among other findings, reports that smartphones and tablets drove 23 percent of total clicks in the fourth quarter of 2012, an 89 percent increase year over year. The quarterly report analyzes aggregated client data from various industries on paid search marketing trends [...]
  • Barnes & Noble Releases Nook In The UK
    [December 12, 2012] The Kindle Fire HD has been available in Europe since October 25. The device came with Amazon's own LOVEFiLM which streams movies and TV shows directly to users' devices. Nook, the ever present rival to Kindle, is now just catching up.
  • Emirates Airlines Has Chosen The HP ElitePad For Its Flight Crew
    [November 20, 2012] HP and Emirates Airlines announced that HP's new Windows 8 tablet, the ElitePad 900, has been chosed at the "primary interface" for the airline's flight crews. As part of Emirates' new Knowledge-driven Inflight Service (KIS), the tablets will be used to facilitate in-flight communications and also function as part of the customer relationship management system. HP stated that Emirates flight crews will be able to "work more efficiently" and "deliver personalized service" using the devices.
  • Surface Tablet WIll Be Hard To Repair
    [October 31, 2012] Microsoft launched its first foray into tablets - the Surface - on Friday. It's possible that a new Surface owner has already broken the screen. What are they to do? It's probably still under warranty, but more adventurous users may opt to repair it themselves. For that, iFixit has a step-by-step teardown of the new tablet.
  • Rumor: Apple Ordered 10 Million iPad Mini Units For The Holiday Season
    [October 10, 2012] Are you excited for the iPad Mini? A survey from last month suggests that you are. Apple thinks you'll be excited for it as well. The company has reportedly taken out a massive order of iPad Minis just in time for the holidays.
  • Google Drive iPad, Android Updates
    [September 19, 2012] Google announced updates to both the iOS and Android versions of it's Drive product. Probably the biggest update is the iPod version of the software now allows editing of documents, something that the Android version has had for over a year now.
  • Amazon Rumored To Announce Kindle Fire 2 Release Date On September 6
    [August 29, 2012] What is up with the first two weeks of September? Every major tech company on the planet is making some kind of huge announcement next month one right after the other. Windows Phone 8 news will hit on September 5 while Apple will be revealing the iPhone 5 on September 12. This week, Nintendo announced that they would be discussing the Wii U just one day after the iPhone 5 event. Amazon has now entered the fray with an event scheduled one day after the Windows Phone 8 event.
  • Samsung To Release Galaxy Note 10.1
    [August 10, 2012] Samsung announced today that its latest tablet, the 10.1-inch Galaxy Note 10.1, will launch globally sometime in August. The Wi-Fi-only and Wi-Fi/3G versions of the tablet will be available soon, with the Wi-Fi/4G LTE version coming "later this year."
  • The iPad FINALLY Gets Xbox Live
    [July 20, 2012] The coolest concept that Microsoft showed off at E3 2012 this year was SmartGlass, a technology that connects a mobile device to an Xbox 360. It offers extra content that can't be shown on the television such as a map of Westeros when watching Game of Thrones on HBO Go. Microsoft will be supporting all tablets and operating systems with SmartGlass so it only makes sense to start getting everything compatible now.
  • Surface Has More To Fear From Itself Than Anything Apple Cooks Up
    [June 25, 2012] Tablets are a tricky thing to price. People want to make sure they're getting the absolute best value out of the product, but don't want to pay an arm and a leg just to get their mobile computing on. Apple's iPad may be the best and worst example of tablet pricing by costing said arm and leg, but offering a customized software experience that seemingly pays for itself in time.
  • Siri Announced for New iPad with iOS 6
    [June 13, 2012] As expected, one of the perks that will be bundled up in the just-announced iOS 6 will be the inclusion of everybody's favorite semi-sentient voice-commanded digital assistant, Siri, to the New iPad.
  • Google?s New Seven Inch Tablet Coming In July?
    [May 25, 2012] There have been rumors for some time that Google might be developing its own Google-branded tablet to compete in the Android tablet market. While some early rumors put the tablet at around 10 inches, to compete with the iPad, more recent reports have suggested that a 7-inch Kindle Fire competitor would be more likely.
  • Research on Public Use of WiFi via Smartphone and Tablets
    [May 9, 2012] JiWire's Mobile Audience Insights Report is an interesting summary of data based on data from approximately 315,000 public Wi-Fi locations. Most recently, the company has looked at WiFi usage of the consumer, particularly regarding mobile payments and public WiFi usage.
  • What States Buy The Most iPads?
    [April 19, 2012] When the new iPad debuted last month analytics firm Chitika Insights developed a tool to that tracked its adoption in realtime. Since then, Chitika's iPad tracker has provided some interesting insights about the new iPad's popularity. For example, after a week Chitika's tracker showed that the new iPad already accounted for 6% of all iPad web traffic.
  • Apple Developing Smaller iPad
    [April 6, 2012] Though the iPad Mini has long been a creature of myth and legend - okay, maybe just rumor - there are increasingly reliable signs that point to the possibility that Apple may actually be working on a smaller version of their venerable iPad. Last month there were reports from a Samsung exec who claimed that his company would be producing the displays for a smaller iPad. Before that, there were reports that production of a 7.85-inch iPad Mini would begin sometime in the third quarter of 2012.
  • How Do I Erase All Data On My Apple iPad 2?
    [March 21, 2012] Psyched to get my new iPad and, even better, I'm selling my older iPad 2 to my brother-in-law. All good, but I need you to tell me how to erase everything on the iPad before I give it to him. I know that there's a simple sequence for reformatting / erasing everything on an iPhone, but can I do the same on my iPad?
  • Is An iPad Mini In The Works?
    [March 1, 2012] Apple's iPad makers have began delivering samples of 7.85-inch tablet panels to manufacturers for verification, according to Digitimes. Volume production is said to begin some time in the third quarter of 2012, according to industry sources. An iPad Mini would be a direct response to Amazon's bestselling Kindle Fire, Barnes and Noble's Nook, as well as other 7-inch Android Tablets.
  • Scroll Excel 7 First Look
    [February 1, 2012] The market for tablet computers is looking rosy according to any number of research studies and reports in the mainstream media and tech press.
  • So Many Tablets But Only a Few Are Selling Well
    [January 18, 2012] I recently read the research report, Over 100 Tablets Introduced; Why You Can't Name Any, by Andrew Eisner, Retrevo.com Director of Community and Content. I have written about a number of their prior reports that I always find interesting (see for example, A Study of Social Media Addiction from Retrevo).  In this case they looked beyond iPads at whole tablet market. They found that over 100 tablets came out since the iPad, but most people can only name a few of them. Interest in non-iPad tablet devices was almost non-existent until the Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet came out.