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Anticipated Amazon Tablet to Take Aim at Apple iPad – NYTimes.com

September 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment

One after another, like moths to a flame, computer makers have been seduced into entering the market for tablets. Apple made it look so irresistible, with 29 million eager and sometimes fanatical consumers snapping up an iPad in the device’s first 15 months.

But neither Samsung nor Motorola nor Acer could beg or borrow any of Apple’s magic. Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry, said it shipped only 200,000 of its PlayBooks in three months — about what Apple sells in three days. Hewlett-Packard, which flopped this summer with the TouchPad, was the latest to get burned.

Now comes a final competitor, the best-placed challenger of all: Amazon.com. The retailer is on the verge of introducing its own tablet, analysts predict, a souped-up color version of its Kindle e-reader that will undercut the iPad in price and aim to steal away a couple of million in unit sales by Christmas.

A competition between Amazon and Apple tablets will be a battle that pits the company that created the first popular e-reader (and set off a still-unfolding revolution in how books are consumed) against the company that created the first popular tablet (and set off a revolution in progress about how entertainment and other media are consumed).

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Apple IPad’s ‘Buzz Saw’ Success Carves Into Consumer PC Sales at HP, Dell – Bloomberg

May 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The iPad is wreaking havoc on the personal-computer market.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ)’s consumer PC sales plunged 23 percent last quarter, and the company lopped $1 billion off its annual sales forecast. And while rival Dell Inc. (DELL) beat analysts’ estimates because of corporate demand, its sales to consumers slumped 7.5 percent. More than 70 million tablets like the Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPad will be sold in 2011, a total that will balloon to 246 million in three years, Jefferies & Co. said yesterday.

“You’re walking into a buzz saw,” Jane Snorek, a senior research analyst at Nuveen Asset Management in Milwaukee, said of the iPad. Her firm manages more than $200 billion in assets. “The tablet is going to replace at least the home computer.”

At 7.3-inches across with a color screen and an array of popular downloadable games like “Angry Birds,” applications for watching movies and reading magazines, and software for word processing and spreadsheets, the iPad has siphoned off more PC sales than analysts and executives predicted.

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Google Chrome OS Tablet Evolving in Open Source – Linux and Open Source – News & Reviews – eWeek.com

April 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Google is baking specifications for a tablet based on its Chrome operating system tablet in its open-source code. With Android Honeycomb tablets marching, a Chrome OS tablet is curious.

 

A tablet computer based on Google’s Chrome operating system is wending its way through the search engine’s open-source pipeline, the company confirmed.

Chrome OS is Google’s lightweight, Web-based operating system, a departure from Microsoft Windows or Apple Mac platforms.

Google gave away a CR-48 test notebook last winter, and the company said Chrome OS would appear on notebooks from Samsung and Acer later this year.

Pictures and a demo video of what a tablet computer running Chrome OS looks like surfaced on Google’s Chromium open-source Website in February 2010, just days after the original Apple iPad was introduced.

Little has been heard about a Chrome OS tablet since, but CNET discovered changes in Chrome, and Chrome OS source code point to the progress of the slate.

Among the finds is text that browsers supply so Web servers can deliver Websites tailored for touch-screen interfaces. There are specs for a virtual keyboard with tab, delete, microphone, return and shift keys. A revamped new tab page has been “optimized for touch,” with application icons that may be moved around the screen.

Google confirmed the existence of the Chrome OS tablet specifications, but told eWEEK no product was forthcoming. “We are engaging in early open-source work for the tablet form factor, but we have nothing new to announce at this time,” a Google spokesperson said.

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Companies set to gobble up Apple iPads; is it the right move? – Tainted Green

December 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Before the Apple iPad debuted, concerns of an illegitimate operating system surfaced, leaving many to question its relevance as a handheld device. Those with technological expertise failed to see how a glorified iPhone could make an impact in the netbook, or hybrid device, market. Quickly, upon arrival, however, as Apple products always seem to do, the Apple iPad generated not only intrigue and envy, but it also may have made believers out of the technologically savvy IT crowd.

Apple has cashed in big time on the iPad. It is expected that sales could reach 13.3 million iPads in 2010, and by 2012, sales could reach as many as 56.1 million iPads. Of all forecasted tablet sales, the Apple iPad is likely to control 70% of the market.

The corporate and business crowd, however, is relatively untapped thus far.

According to a survey done by ChangeWave, out of 1,641 corporate IT buyers, 7% said their company now utilizes a tablet device, and of those that use a tablet, the Apple iPad seems to be the device of choice (controlling 82% of those purchases).

Perhaps most intriguing about the survey is that 14% of respondents believe their companies will purchase a tablet in the first quarter of 2011. Of those 14% that plan to purchase a tablet, 78% said their company plans to purchase the iPad.

It seems the doubts of the iPad being an illegitimate device are being dismissed by the technologically advanced minds in companies moving forward with the purchases of the iPad in the first quarter of next year.

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New Microsoft Tablets Will Take Aim at the iPad – NYTimes.com

December 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Next month, at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft will give it another try, presenting a slew of new slates that it hopes will offer some competition to the Apple iPad, which has quickly become the leader in this market.

According to people familiar with Microsoft’s plans, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, is expected to  announce a number of these devices when he takes the stage at C.E.S., showcasing devices built by Samsung and Dell, among a number of other manufacturing partners.

The people with knowledge of these devices asked not to be named as they are not authorized to speak publicly by Microsoft or partnering companies. Microsoft declined to comment about coming products that have not been announced.

The Samsung device is described as “similar in size and shape to the Apple iPad, although it is not as thin. It also includes a unique and slick keyboard that slides out from below for easy typing.”

The people familiar with this device said it would run the Windows 7 operating system when in landscape mode, but will also have a layered interface that will appear when the keyboard is hidden and the device is held in a portrait mode.

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Analysts Expect iPad Adoption to Impact Enterprise Application Market

December 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The iPad has been well received by the general consumer market, but analysts are seeing a business market for it and other tablets — including business intelligence and CRM.

The Tablet Can’t Be Ignored

Media tablets, and in particular, the Apple iPad are exploding in usage. Gartner expects the number of units shipped to reach 19.5 million this year. That will almost triple within one year to 54.8 million units and will pass the 20 million mark in 2014.

Gartner believes the cachè of the iPad makes a strong statement in many customer-facing sectors, such as retail, hospitality and tourism. But the iPad isn’t the only game in town. Other media tablets include Samsung Galaxy Tab and the Cisco Cius. Initially, Gartner sees these devices being used for fast access to e-mail, calendaring, Web applications and PowerPoint presentations.

The Apple iPad and its ecosystem are likely to disrupt existing technology use profiles and business models, and CEOs should ensure that its potential is being seriously evaluated inside their organizations,” said Stephen Prentice, an analyst at Gartner. “Individuals are willing to buy these devices themselves, so enterprises must be ready to support them.”

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Adobe Reveals Digital Publishing Suite for iPad Delivery

October 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment

This week, at its annual worldwide conference, Adobe Systems (new,site) revealed their new Digital Publishing Suite. The package aims to help publishers create, publish and sell digital content targeted at mobile devices. Even with Apple’s Steve Jobs’ public disdain for Flash, Adobe seems determined to lead the mobile publishing market.

Examining the Suite

Adobe has created an integrated platform that allows designers to use existing tools like InDesign CS5, PDF and HTML5 to create interactive digital content in magazine form. Adobe  took lessons learned from creating digital editions for clients such as the New Yorker and designed the system to integrate easily into the existing workflow processes for customers already using products like InDesign.

Publishers can take content from their print publications and supplement it with interactive features to provide a new digital experience for their customers. Initially, the product will only support distribution to Apple iPad, but eventually it will be extended to support additional platforms.

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HP, RIM Tablets Duel for Enterprise Customers – Mobile and Wireless from eWeek

October 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Hewlett Packard and Research in Motion demonstrated at the Gartner Symposium/IT Expo in Orlando that there is more than one way to slice the tablet market.

Both companies highlighted their tablets, both aimed at the enterprise market, and both tablets were completely different from the Apple iPad and from each other. Could this mean a fragmentation of the tablet market or simply a market that is too broad for one device to satisfy?

HP is the first out of the gate with an enterprise tablet. The Slate 500 went on sale just after midnight on October 22 on the HP Web site. Chris Preimesberger, who examined the device, describes it as being narrower and lighter than the iPad. More significantly, the device runs Windows 7 Professional.

According to HP’s press materials, this tablet is designed as a business machine rather than a consumer electronics item. This means that it comes with Microsoft Office 2010, it has a stylus for entering handwritten notes and for writing e-mails. The Slate 500 includes a docking station with additional USB ports, a video port, and it includes two cameras, one facing to the front and one to the rear for video conferencing and for taking photos of things. The four-finger multi-touch screen also means that you aren’t dependant on the stylus to use the Slate.

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Google Docs Gets Mobile Editing for Android, iPad – Messaging and Collaboration from eWeek

September 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Google Enterprise President Dave Girouard said mobile editing capabilities are coming for Google Docs on Google Android and Apple iPad devices.

Google in the coming weeks will unveil mobile editing functionality for Google Docs running on Google’s Android and Apple’s iPad.

Google Enterprise President Dave Girouard, who noted that Google Apps now has 3 million business customers, said his team demonstrated the tools at the Google Atmosphere cloud computing event in Paris Sept. 20.

Girouard, tasked with leading the company’s cloud collaboration efforts versus Microsoft, IBM and a litany of other players, wrote:

“In the next few weeks, co-workers around the world will soon be able to co-edit files simultaneously from an even wider array of devices.”

Google declined to provide more specific information for eWEEK on this functionality.

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Apple iPad Could Sell 28 Million Units in 2011: Analyst – Desktops and Notebooks from eWeek

September 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Apple could sell 28 million iPads in 2011, perhaps affecting sales of lower-end PCs, according to a new research note from UBS Investment Research.

“Sales of traditional notebooks appear to be feeling pressure from the iPad, causing a scramble by vendors to launch iPad-like tablets,” UBS Investment Research analyst Maynard Um wrote in that note, excerpted on the blog Apple Insider. “We believe that a majority of this impact is occurring on the lower end of PC sales as the iPad is priced close enough to this range that it becomes attractive to consumers looking to make purchases within this segment.”

In addition, Um reportedly suggested that “consumers who purchase iPads may be more willing to delay purchases and upgrades of existing PCs,” although he stopped short of suggesting the iPad has started to cannibalize the notebook market.

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