It’s another two weeks before the iPad 2 arrives so it’s time for Apple and retailers to get rid of Gen-1 iPads. So far, Big-W has the best price at $398 for the base 16GB Wi-Fi model. At this stage, Apple hasn’t announced pricing for the new models. However, the company will be under pressure [...]
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What makes a good tablet device? It’s a pretty commonly asked question at the moment. We just hope it’s one being asked around the halls of the Microsoft campus. Because right now, from what we’ve seen so far, we’re not sure the company has been asking the right questions. The tablet device market is really [...]
It’s been the quiet, almost refined area of the digital revolution. But while Amazon’s Kindle certainly did more to open up the book publishing archives than any device previous to it, there is growing feeling that the Kindle was just the floorshow for the main act – Apple’s iPad. In a report in InformationWeek today, [...]
The already-crowded ebook reader market is going to get tighter still with news than Japanese consumer electronics brand Sharp is about to jump into the market with two new e-readers. Branded “Galapagos”, Sharp will release a smaller 5.5-inch model plus a 10.8-inch unit and power the two with its own e-book store, beginning in Japan [...]
With Apple’s iPad showing the demand for tablet PCs, it’s not surprising that one of the hottest business areas to get into is touch-screen LCD modules. That’s been confirmed by the latest research from market analysts DisplaySearch, who believe the market for touch-screen panels will grow from just over $6billion in 2010 to $14billion by [...]