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Lenovo, Acer Planning Wintel Tablets in 2012: Report
Computer makers Lenovo and Acer are reportedly planning to release tablet devices running the Windows 8 platform from Microsoft and sporting Intel chips known as Clover Trail. A DigiTimes report quoted sources in the upstream supply chain as saying that PC players are putting more hope on Intel’s Clover Trail platform as Medfield, designed by…
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Amazon Could Miss Sales Goals: Goldman Sachs
A report from financial services firm Goldman Sachs warns that online retailer Amazon.com could miss its fourth-quarter sales estimates due to a slowdown in online shopping growth, despite impressive sales of the company’s Kindle Fire tablet and family of e-readers. Goldman Sachs analyst Heather Bellini said in a research note that based on sales estimates…
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Apple’s iPad 3 Coming in Two Models in 2012: Rumor
Apple will unveil two iPad models at a conference in January, according to Taiwanese publication DigiTimes. Apple is set to unveil its next-generation iPad which will come in two versions at the MacWorld/iWorld expo scheduled for January 26, 2012, read the Dec. 29 report, citing unnamed supply-chain sources. The new models will join the existing…
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Apple iPad Tablet of Choice for Small Businesses: NPD
Nearly three quarters of U.S. small and midsize businesses with fewer than 1,000 employees have plans to purchase tablets over the next 12 months, with the Apple iPad being the most considered tablet among those firms planning an upcoming purchase, according to IT research firm The NPD Group s third quarter SMB Technology Monitor. Among the…
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Windows Phone Road Map Details ‘Tango,’ ‘Apollo’
A leaked Windows Phone road map purports to trace the smartphone platform’s evolution over the next year. The road map was first posted Dec. 27 by the blog WMPoweruser, which declined to mention the source. Nonetheless, if taken at face value, the document suggests that Microsoft will follow up its recent Mango software update with…
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Why You Need to Make Mobile Device Management a Priority in 2011
If you look around the web right about now, you’ll notice a beloved yearly ritual – IT predictions for the coming year. The giddy end-of-year predictions orgy already is in full swing, as countless prognosticators, contemplators and agitators consult their digital crystal balls to make divinations ranging from duh to… huh? At least half of…