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Acer’s CEO Has Fighting Words For Microsoft’s Surface

Reuven Shechter — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:53:48 +0000

Microsoft’s announcement of its Surface tablets left many consumers and original equipment manufacturers (such as Acer, Dell, and HP) perplexed. Why would Microsoft seek to cannibalize its own partners’ sales of Windows 8 and Windows RT tablets? This development was at the very least surprising, and at most, a direct attack on the companies who […]

Computer Manufactuers Long To Be Touched

Mordechai Osdoby — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:27:42 +0000

Another week, another trade show. This time it’s the Computex 2012 show. It’s always interesting to look at the trends in what’s being reported at such events, and this year I’m seeing one big, yet unsurprising trend — touch. In the last few years, heavy tablet adoption on top of years of touchscreen smartphone […]

LG Says Support Microsoft – Buy An Android Phone Today

Tom Wyrick — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:34:33 +0000

LG is the latest in a string of Android phone manufacturers to strike a patent deal with Microsoft over portions of the Chrome and Android OS. With this agreement in place, Microsoft now profits from 70 percent of all Google-based smartphones sold in the United States. Other manufacturers paying Microsoft for their Android phone sales […]

CES Day Two Recap: Tablets News (Mostly)

Reuven Shechter — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:18:03 +0000

Much like day one, day two of CES was also jam-packed with announcements. Tablet and smartphone news continued to come in at a breakneck pace. Intel, which has been teasing its line of mobile processors for quite a long time, is finally making the move to jump to the consumer market. The Lenovo K800 will […]

Tablet Thursday News Digest

Mordechai Osdoby — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:37:34 +0000

This was a pretty big week for tablets, as every company under the sun seems to be rushing to exploit the market. While it may seem like their fighting for Apple’s table scraps, there are a huge number of potential tablet users out there, and everyone seems to be trying to grab them. The most […]