tablet market

For long, Microsoft has mostly been a software company (except for its XBox venture), creating new and better software and shipping it out to hardware vendors for use. However, given Apple's immense success, it had become evident that a hardware-plus-software company, with the tight integration of the two, would sell better in today's tech world.…

Mobile computing devices are increasingly replacing the regular PCs. While PCs still remain the mainstream mode of computing, the mobile platform has experienced an explosive growth in the recent years. And at the head of this growth is Apple, holding the largest market share in both the mobile PC and tablet market.

iPad's dominance in the tablet market is quite undisputed. Apple has been selling millions of these units each month and iPad has become so iconic that it is used interchangeably with the word 'tablet' itself. However, while iPad dominates in sales, it is even more dominant when it comes to general tablet usage. Or so a recent research by Chitika…

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…

Dell hasn't been doing particularly well in transitioning from being a PC vendor to a company who ships PCs as well as tablets. Particularly, it hasn't seen any significant success on the tablet front. In a recent interview to Reuters, Dell's chief commercial officer, Steve Felice said that there is still a lot of room in the tablet market and Dell…

Newton was one of Apple's devices, introduced before iPhone, iPod and iPad. It came with a stylus and was introduced by Sculley. But later when Steve Jobs came back to Apple, he rubbished Newton because Jobs was against the notion of using a stylus. Thus, Newton was out in a brief span of time. However, it is being speculated that perhaps Apple can…

As we see it, the tablet market seem largely dominated by Apple's iPad and Amazon's Kindle Fire. Samsung did have some success with it's Galaxy Tab but it still isn't a major contender. And Google, too, has been ramping up plans to launch a Google tablet. In all this, the traditional tech giants, such as Dell, seem out of luck and out of business.…

Kindle Fire has become a sweetheart for millions of users around the globe. The price-tag, the nifty looks, the sleek design, all of it has contributed to up the hype about the device. However, many of you may be facing battery-life issues. While the device officially comes with 8-hours battery life once fully charged, you will nearly always find…

There has been a lot of criticism heaped on Kindle Fire over a number of problems the device suffers from: from wi-fi connectivity issues to the utter lack of parental controls, the critics have lambasted a lot, irritated further by the silence from Amazon's end. However, Amazon seems set to end this silence by shipping out a software update for…

There has been a lot of speculation about the specifications as well as the expected release date of next iPad by Apple. Especially now that Android is expected to launch it's ultra-high-display tablets sometime soon, Apple fans were waiting eagerly for a word from the company. And while Apple is still shush on the issue, it's supply-chain vendors…