According to Microsoft executives, Windows Phone has gained traction in the Chinese market over iPhone. After just two months of launch in the Chinese market, Windows Phone has acquired 7% of the market. This is a tad higher than the 6% market share hold by iPhone.
Aperion has launched a Hi-Fi wireless speaker branded as Aperion ARIS. Initially this speaker only supports Windows 7 and Windows 8 operating systems. No matter on which device you are playing music – your desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone – you can listen through ARIS wireless speakers.
Last year, when Kindle Fire was launched, a lot of us wondered that perhaps Apple had finally found a worthy contender. While that is not too wrong, Apple has now jumped back in the game. According to IDC’s report detailing quarterly tablet sales, Apple has been able to ship a whooping 67.8% of the total tablets sold during the first quarter of 2012.
A number of tablet vendors are lining up to roll out Windows 8 tablet as soon as Microsoft releases the much-touted OS. Needless to say, many iPad users wouldn’t mind getting a Windows-like interface on their tablets. While a true Windows 8 tablet may still be months away, you can still get a very real, smooth and awesome Windows experience on your iPad with a new tool in Cydia Store, called Quasar.
Creating an entire ecosystem around a platform is increasingly becoming critically important. This is because consumers now buy into a whole ‘package’ rather than solo deals. And that is why, a platform has to have an entire ecosystem of apps and related products to make it a success in today’s tech world. For this reason, Microsoft is teaming up with Barnes & Noble and paying it a whooping $300 million to create a Windows 8 version of iBooks.
Microsoft just confirmed that official name of next Windows OS will be “Windows 8”. And after so much rumor there will be only 3 edition as release package. Check details below.
Intel Corporation has unveiled an a new educational tablet computer, branded as Studybook. This tablet is a part of the Intel Learning Series family. This Studybook tablet provides mobility for students and it comes with Intel Learning Series software suite and is supported by a broad education ecosystem. Currently, more than 7 million students are using Intel classmate PCs worldwide.
Digitimes has had a fairly mixed record when it comes to the authenticity of rumors. It sure does publish a lot of them, though. The latest from Digitimes is that Intel is currently working on a tablet codenamed ‘StoryBook’ and that the tablet will be juiced up by Intel’s Medfield chip. Also, the tablet will have a 10-inch display.