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Report: More smartphones than PCs shipped in 2011

Brad Linder — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:00:51 +0000

Once upon a time, smartphones were just the expensive cousins of cheap cellphones that could make calls, maybe play a few ringtones, and if you were lucky surf a few web pages. Today smartphones are tiny computers that you can fit in your pocket... which might help explain why more more smartphones were shipped last year than traditional PCs --...

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Amazon and B&N tablets could account for 40 percent of Android tablet sales

Brad Linder — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:25:52 +0000

Research firm Strategy Analytics estimate that about 10.5 million Android tablets were shipped in the fourth quarter of 2011. That's more than a 300 percent jump from a year earlier, and the increase in Android tablet shipments means that Android devices now make up about 39 percent of overall tablet sales. But one thing that wasn't in Strategy Analytics original...

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Tablets sales are up (iPad still dominates, but market share is shrinking)

Brad Linder — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:07:32 +0000

Apple announced recently that it shipped a whopping 15.4 million iPads in the most recent quarter, with iPads outselling Mac computers by a margin of nearly 3 to 1. But how does the iPad fare against the onslaught of tablets running Android, Windows, or other operating systems? Pretty well, actually. According to a new report from Strategy Analytics, about 26.8...

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Santa delivered an awful lot of tablets, eReaders in December

Brad Linder — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:15:10 +0000

Tablets and eBook readers may have grabbed a lot of headlines in 2011, but it looks like sales of the devices may have really taken off during the holiday season. The Pew Research Center has conducted surveys over the last few years to see how many people in America have eReaders and tablets -- and the numbers nearly doubled from...

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Study: Tablet users read news, don’t necessarily pay for it

Brad Linder — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:53:02 +0000

There's been a lot of talk about tablets such as the Apple iPad and Android tablets saving the news industry. Apple incorporated a Newsstand into iOS 5, which lets customers subscribe to digital magazines and newspapers and keep them organized. Zinio and other companies have created periodical stores for tablets. And a number of publications including the New York Times,...

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Researchers find that touch panels are selling like crazy

Brad Linder — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:20:01 +0000

You know all those smartphones, tablets, all-in-one computers and other devices with touchscreen displays that are on the market? Apparently people like them, because the folks at DisplaySearch have put out a report suggesting that revenue from touch panel sales will hit $13.4 billion this year. That's up about 90 percent from last year. Smartphones are still leading the way...

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Technique for better WiFi management could improve battery life

Brad Linder — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 11:00:34 +0000

[/caption] One of the best ways to improve battery life on a laptop, smartphone, or tablet is to shut off the WiFi radio. Of course, that's not always practical, but a grad student at Duke University has come up with a technique for managing WiFi networking that uses between 38 and 51 percent less energy. When implemented properly, the...

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eReader market is outpacing tablet growth

Brad Linder — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:06:14 +0000

It seems like a week doesn't go by without the launch of a new tablet device for surfing the web, viewing media, reading eBooks, and running apps. But most of the high profile tablets available cost $400 or more. You know what's a lot cheaper? An eBook reader such as the latest NOOK, Kobo, or Kindle eReaders. They also have...

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Survey: Netbooks are just as popular as tablets, plenty of people don’t care at all

Brad Linder — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:00:34 +0000

It seems like every other day we see a report suggesting that tablets are killing off consumer demand for netbooks, but last week ABI Research released results of survey suggesting that both product categories remain pretty popular. About 27 percent of those questioned said they were "very" or "extremely" interested in acquiring tablets, while the figure for netbooks was about...

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HP memristors could replace DRAM, flash in a few years

Brad Linder — Mon, 16 May 2011 19:17:26 +0000

HP researchers say the company could begin commercial production of memory resistors (memristors) by mid-2013, providing an alternative to today's DRAM and flash memory. The company built the first prototype memristor a few years ago, but scientists had predicted the possibility of memristors in the 1970s. The memristor is an electronic component that takes its place alongside resistors, capacitors, and...

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Researchers working on batteries that recharge in 2 minutes or less

Brad Linder — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:17:29 +0000

Tired of waiting a few hours for your cellphone, tablet, or laptop battery to go from 0 to 100? Batteries of the future may be able to charge in a tiny fraction of the time. Ars Technica dug up a report this week from researchers working on a way to construct batteries that could charge in minutes rather than hours....

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NPD: The iPad isn’t killing the laptop

Brad Linder — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 23:02:37 +0000

Finally, a bit of sanity. Headline after headline this year has claimed that the Apple iPad is eating into netbook and notebook sales because iPad sales are up while netbook sales growth is slowing. You could also make the case that ice cream is eating into netbook sales, because as the summer dragged on, ice cream sales rose while notebook...

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DisplaySearch: Overall portable PC sales on the upswing

Brad Linder — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:33:59 +0000

DisplaySearch released new numbers today suggesting that netbook sales may be dipping, iPad sales are doing well, and overall portable PC sales including tablets, ultraportable computers, and other notebooks are doing quite well. The research firm notes that 9 inch and smaller netbooks have all-but disappeared from the market, which should be apparent to pretty much anyone who's been looking...

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Microsoft invites iPad users to participate in a study

Brad Linder — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:57:57 +0000

Sure, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer seems pretty confident that we'll start to see Windows 7 Slates from big name PC makers before the end of the year. But that doesn't mean Microsoft doesn't have anything to learn from the Apple iPad. In fact, the company is inviting iPad users to come to Microsoft's Redmond campus to participate in a study....

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Department of obvious research: Netbook sales are slowing

Brad Linder — Wed, 26 May 2010 14:50:45 +0000

There are a lot of headlines going around today about how the iPad and thin and light laptops are putting the squeeze on netbook sales... and thus that they might be harbingers of doom for the netbooks. There's just one problem. Those headlines are tied to a study from Retrovo, which suggests that a significant percentage of people who are...

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