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Pilots Replace Paper Manuals with iPads (Even During Takeoff)
Another day, another “look who’s using the iPad now!” story.
According to the New York Times, airplane pilots are the latest to join the tablet craze. American Airlines, Alaska Airlines and Executive Jet Management have all allowed pilots to store reference manuals — a collection of documents that weighs 40 pounds on paper — on …
If at First You Don’t Succeed in Killing the iPad, Try, Try Again
I’m pretty sure this statement isn’t going to create a firestorm of controversy: HP’s TouchPad, in its initial form, isn’t going to keep Steve Jobs or anyone else at Apple up at night. I reviewed the tablet for this week’s Technologizer column on TIME.com, and while it has some good points–especially the WebOS interface–it’s remarkably …
HP Is Committed to Its ‘WebOS’ Platform (and It Should Be)
Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
As a technology consulting firm, our company has had the opportunity to work with most of the vendors in the PC market and for most of the last …
Windows 8 May Arrive Early to Fight iPad (But Hopefully Not)
As Apple’s iPad threatens to gobble up PC market share, Microsoft may be moving faster than expected on Windows 8.
An anonymous source tells ZDNet‘s Mary Jo Foley that Microsoft’s shooting for an April 2012 release to manufacturing for Windows 8, which will accommodate tablets with a touch-based shell on top of the familiar Windows …
Archos Reveals Two Seriously Cheap Android Tablets
Somehow, Archos has managed to fit some powerful hardware into an Android tablet that’s just over half the price of an iPad.
The Archos G9 series tablets will come in two flavors when they launch in late September: An 8-inch model will start at $279 and have the same screen resolution as an iPad (1024-by-768), and a 10.1-inch model …
Why Tablets Represent the Future of Computing
Where is personal computing headed?
As a technology industry analyst I get asked this question quite often. My answer, although it’s hard to wrap our brains around now, is that we are moving away from a keyboard- and mouse-centric computing experience to a touch computing experience. Tablets represent the beginning of that shift and …
Vizio Android Tablet Sports $350 Price Tag
The cheapening of Android tablets continues, as Vizio’s 8-inch slate is expected to launch for $350 next month, according to Engadget.
Aside from its price, which is less than most high-end Android tablets on the market, the simply-named “Vizio Tablet” includes one notable trick: It uses a built-in infrared controller to communicate …
Tablets: ‘Why Should Somebody Buy This Instead of an iPad?’
This article was originally published on Technologizer.
Thirteen ways an Apple competitor might answer a really difficult question.
It’s been fifteen months since the first iPad shipped. Nearly every sizable company that makes anything that looks even sort of like a computer or a phone has rushed into the market that Apple …
Huawei ‘MediaPad’ Claims the Secret to 7-Inch Android Tablet Glory
Overwhelmed by the dinner plate proportions of 10-inch tablets like the iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1? Huawei thinks it has the answer with the MediaPad, a 7-inch Android tablet.
Huawei isn’t the first tablet maker to shoot for a 7-inch figure, but the MediaPad will supposedly be the first tablet to run Android 3.2, a version of …
An Upgraded 7-inch ‘Galaxy Tab’ Android Tablet? Let’s Hope So
In a rumor that’s as shaky as rumors get, Samsung may be working on an updated version of its 7-inch Galaxy Tab.
That’s right, the original iPad rival that was quickly overshadowed by newer, shinier competition — including the iPad 2 and a bigger Samsung tablet — is reportedly getting a refresh, according to Italy’s unofficial …
BlackBerry PlayBook Smacked Down by Wireless Carrier
Research in Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook just isn’t getting the love from wireless carriers.
In the United Kingdom, O2 has scrapped plans to carry the 7-inch tablet, reportedly telling customers that “there are some issues with the end to end customer experience.” O2 hasn’t ruled out selling the PlayBook down the line and may work …