Kindle Fire may have cost Apple $1 billion or more in holiday iPad sales
Amazon’s new Kindle Fire was a hot item during the holiday shopping season, and one analyst believes the new Amazon tablet may have cost Apple …
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Ticonderoga: iTV, ‘iPad mini’ and iPhone 5 with NFC and 4G extend Apple’s lead in 2012
Apple will further extend its lead in the technology sector this year as it launches a number of new products that will leave its competition …
New sale cuts BlackBerry PlayBook price by as much as $400
Research In Motion’s debut tablet has been something of a disappointment for the Waterloo, Ontario-based vendor. While the slate showed promise, it failed to offer …
Apple will stop being cool in 2012, IBD says
As each year draws to a close, we can always count on a flurry of predictions for the tech industry over the coming 12 months. …
Windows 8 ‘Clover Trail’ tablets reportedly due from Acer and Lenovo in Q3
Top personal computer vendors Acer and Lenovo are each preparing to launch Windows 8 tablets in the third quarter, a new report claims. Citing anonymous …
Photos of purported iPad 3 part suggests tweaked internals
Photos of a part that is allegedly an iPad 3 component suggest that the tablet will continue to use Apple’s 30-pin connector, as opposed to …
Next-gen iPad may feature double the battery capacity of iPad 2
Apple will launch a new high-end iPad model in early 2012 featuring a battery that includes more than twice the capacity of the current iPad …
Amazon: More than 4 million Kindles sold this holiday season
Amazon announced on Thursday that the 2011 holiday season was the best ever for sales of its Kindle devices. While the online retailer didn’t specifically …
Apple said to be launching two new iPad models in 2012
Apple reportedly has plans to launch two new iPad models next year according to a recent report. Set to be unveiled at a press conference …
Amazon Kindle Fire gets unofficial Android 4.0 update [video]
Amazon’s popular Kindle Fire tablet now has access to an unofficial Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update. Members of the xda-developers forum recently managed to …
Acer to stick with tablets despite poor sales
Acer will continue to launch new tablets in 2012 despite slow sales of the company’s current tablet models. Commenting on rumors that Acer might slow its …
Looking back at 2011: ‘The year of the tablet’ falls flat
Apple rocked the consumer electronics industry when it launched the “magical and revolutionary iPad” in April 2010. It wasn’t the first media tablet aimed at …
Google’s rumored Nexus tablet could cannibalize sales of partner tablets
Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt made comments during a press conference in mid-December that suggested his company was working on building its own Android 4.0 Ice …
Asus expects to ship 3-6 million tablets next year, including Windows 8 Transformer models
Asus CEO Jonney Shih said he expects his company to ship between 3 million and 6 million tablets next year, a big leap from the …
Apple may be rushing to launch the iPad 3 on Jobs’s birthday
Is Apple planning to launch the iPad 3 on Steve Jobs’s birthday next year? The idea might sound more like a conspiracy theory than a …
Apple reportedly has no plans for a 7-inch iPad, iPad 2 price to drop when iPad 3 launches
A number of reports have emerged in recent months claiming that Apple has a new smaller iPad in the pipeline set to launch in 2012. …
Sprint’s EVO View 4G gets Android 3.2.1 Honeycomb update
Sprint announced Thursday that it is releasing the Android 3.2.1 (Honeycomb) update for irs HTC EVO View 4G tablet. The slate originally launched running Android …
Hasbro sues Asus for naming its tablet the ‘Transformer Prime’
Toymaker Hasbro recently filed a lawsuit against Asus for naming its new convertible Android tablet the “Transformer Prime.” According to The Verge, Hasbro has a …
iPad satisfaction rate at 84% according to new survey
While electronics vendors struggle to gain traction in the emerging media tablet market, Apple has managed to maintain a significant lead in the space despite …
Apple unlikely to win German ban on tweaked Samsung tablet
Apple is not likely to succeed in its efforts to ban Samsung’s revised flagship tablet in Germany, the judge presiding over the case said on …
Amazon issues Kindle Fire update to address user complaints
Amazon on Wednesday began rolling out an update for its Kindle Fire tablet that is expected to address a number of user complaints. Software version …
Millennial: Kindle Fire outpaces iPad adoption but Android sees huge share drop in November
Usage of Amazon’s Kindle Fire has exploded since the tablet launched last month, but its rapid adoption wasn’t enough to keep Android from seeing its …
Tablet maker Fusion Garage mysteriously drops off the map
Fusion Garage, the small company behind the Grid10 tablet that was announced earlier this year, has mysteriously gone dark. Engadget first noted that the company’s website …
Schmidt suggests Google tablet could launch within six months
Google chairman Eric Schmidt may have let slip a Google-branded tablet that will launch in the first half of 2012. In the “next six months …
Leaked part hints at upcoming iPad 3 redesign
A leaked component that is purportedly part of Apple’s unannounced iPad 3 suggests that the tablet may feature a brand new design. The new part …
Apple may launch ‘iPad mini’ in Q3
Apple is reportedly working on a smaller version of its popular iPad tablet that will launch in the third quarter next year. Citing sources in …
Amazon currently selling over 1 million Kindles each week
Amazon’s Kindle line was expected to be a popular option for holiday shoppers and the retailer confirmed as much on Thursday. Straying from its normally …
Tablet shipments miss targets but still balloon 264.5%, IDC says
IDC said Thursday that media tablet shipments during the third calendar quarter increased 264.5% over the same period last year, but that overall shipments were …
The tablet Apple tried to stop
For all the trouble Apple’s aggressive litigation strategy has caused Samsung, the South Korea-based electronics giant has finally found a way to make the pricey …
Amazon to sell 6 million Kindle Fire tablets, 8 million eReaders in Q4
Amazon’s Kindle Fire is a smash hit, with fourth-quarter sales that may exceed even the most lofty estimates reported ahead of the tablet’s recent launch. …
