Category Archives: Tablet

Amazon Kindle Fire surges ahead in Android tablet use:

By doris | Published: February 6, 2012

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com A new report analyzing app usage purports to show that, in just three months, Amazon’s Kindle Fire has dethroned the Samsung Galaxy Tab as the top Android tablet — at least when it comes to people actually spending time on their devices. Flurry Analytics compared application sessions among all Android tablets [...]

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Sony tablets, smartphones to get Android 4.0 upgrades

By doris | Published: January 30, 2012

Full Story at Gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com The upgrades to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich continue with the entire Sony Xperia line of smartphones, starting this spring, according to reports. Those say updates may be applied to applied to Sony’s Android tablets as well. According to The Verge, sources say that Sony’s Tablet S and Tablet P “are [...]

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AT&T expands data plans for smartphones, tablets

By doris | Published: January 19, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com DALLAS — AT&T is rolling out expanded wireless data plans as consumers are doing more surfing, texting and emailing on their smartphones and tablets. The company announced the plans, which allow for more data but at a higher price tag, late Wednesday. AT&T’s existing customers do not have to change their [...]

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Rumors of new iPads heat up as 2012 arrives

By doris | Published: January 1, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — You may have just unwrapped your new iPad 2, but rumors are already swirling about the iPad 3. The always-fertile field of Apple rumors is once again blossoming furiously, as tech observers pore over the most minute tidbits of information to speculate on the future of the market-leading Apple [...]

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Tablets, e-readers closing book on ink-and-paper era

By doris | Published: December 29, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com Tablet computers and electronic readers promise to close the book on the ink-and-paper era as they transform the way people browse magazines, check news or lose themselves in novels. “It is only a matter of time before we stop killing trees and all publications become digital,” Creative Strategies president and principal [...]

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Smaller, cheaper tablets could become a big deal

By doris | Published: October 26, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Smaller tablet computers that are significantly more affordable and portable than the iPad are finally starting to hit the United States — and they could hit a crucial sweet spot in the consumer market. Recently Kobo announced the new Kobo Vox, which costs $200. That’s the same price as [...]

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Steve Jobs, Apple founder, dies

By doris | Published: October 5, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Steve Jobs, the visionary in the black turtleneck who co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into the world’s leading tech company and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the iPhone, died Wednesday. He was 56. The hard-driving executive pioneered the concept of [...]

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Amazon’s Android tablet is coming soon

By doris | Published: September 24, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The news that Amazon is building its own Android-based tablet has been an open secret for months. Next week, the mythical device is likely to be unleashed. Amazon’s (AMZN, Fortune 500) PR firm sent an invitation to journalists midday Friday announcing a press conference in New York [...]

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Many US schools adding iPads, trimming textbooks

By doris | Published: September 4, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com HARTFORD, Conn. — For incoming freshmen at western Connecticut’s suburban Brookfield High School, hefting a backpack weighed down with textbooks is about to give way to tapping out notes and flipping electronic pages on a glossy iPad tablet computer. A few hours away, every student at Burlington High School near Boston [...]

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Sony’s new products doomed to mediocrity

By doris | Published: September 1, 2011

Full Story at Gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com Sony just revealed a flank of products intended to help the beleaguered brand retake the personal electronics world. The trouble is, it all adds up to a pretty weak play. Let’s take it bit by bit: Tablets: As our own Suzanne Choney reported, the awaited Sony Tablet S and weirdly foldable [...]

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Smartphones, tablets can be a port in the storm

By doris | Published: August 28, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com One item that millions will have with them in almost any situation is their smartphone. As Hurricane Irene approaches, that’s important because a smartphone or tablet computer can come in handy during the storm — if you’ve made some advance preparations. There are a host of apps for tracking weather, getting [...]

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Best HP TouchPad Apps

By doris | Published: August 27, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com Since HP’s TouchPad firesale brought prices on the tablet down as low as $99, a number of you have picked one up, and so have we. Since HP chose to use its own proprietary webOS operating system, not all of your favorite apps may be here, but fear not. We’re here [...]

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