The fast growing tablet family just got a new member this month. Meet the new Toshiba Thrive, a 7 inch tablet with a very interesting price tag. It went on sale for just $400 and hopes to create a stir in the global tablet market. You can read our review to the 10 inch Toshiba Thrive. Toshiba Thrive is also available in Amazon here.
Rumors say that Coby Electronics is determined to take the market by storm next year with the release of five new tablets powered by Google’s latest Android operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich. Not to keep the fans and the market on suspense, the new products are going to be announced in January, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
While everyone expected a major league brand of smartphones to feature Google’s latest Android, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich, a demo surfaced from a source almost no one expected: Huawei Honor. For some of you, Huawei may only represent connectivity products, like modems, but it seems that they are well into smartphone production, a good proof to that is the Huawei Discovery phone. And Huawei is not the only one, as ZTE has announced of their intention too.
Times are tough for Mozilla and its flagship web browser Firefox. Last month Firefox lost its number two position in the web browser usage to Chrome. Corporate users are mulling over abandoning Firefox as their preferred web browser because of its accelerated development schedule. Mozilla’s three year old contact with Google, from which it earns the majority of its revenue, may not be renewed. And, now that a study by research firm Accuvant has rated Firefox as the least secure among the top three browsers, seems to be the last clout they need at this moment. It seems – while the present is tough, the future is tougher.
When Android Honeycomb was released, there was a lot of speculation in the tablet market. Vendors, especially those shipping out Android tablets running Honeycomb, were very hopeful that this will help them make big. But apparently, there hopes are not very well-placed. According to stats gathered from multiple sources, Honeycomb tablets constitute a mere 1 to 2 percent of total Android tablets being used right now.
Google announced a couple of days ago reaching the mark of 10 billion downloads from the Android Market and the current rate of downloads is 1 billion a month. Google…
The world’s fifth largest handset maker by market share ZTE plans to move aggressively on US market. Lixin Cheng, the head of ZTE's North American business, explained for The Wall…
After Facebook pages and Google pages, here comes Twitter improved brand pages. They just appeared and there’s already a pretty heated debate around them as to whether this pages will be actually useful to brands and whether Twitter users will care about this or benefit from them.