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Everyone Is Scared of Amazon – And They Should Be

Don Reisinger, May 4th 2012 Discuss [0]

There was a time when some of the biggest electronics retailers in the world had issues with Amazon. They realized that the online retail giant was able to beat them on price, and with more and more people coming to its site, it had the ability to take them down.

The past is littered with companies that tried to go up against Amazon, including Circuit City, CompUSA, and others. Best Buy is now having some trouble competing against online giants like Amazon, and by the look of things, eventually, only mega retailers like Walmart, as well as small boutiques, might survive the online onslaught.

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iPad hits 68% share

Chris Burns, May 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

There's no denying that Apple's version of what everyone else in the world calls a tablet has been one of the greatest successes in gadget history, the iPad today being shown by IDC as having a 68% share in the market for tablets and tablet-like devices. The IDC group shows the Apple worldwide tablet market share increasing on the whole from 54.7 percent in the holiday quarter at the end of 2011. These numbers have been shown to be sucking the blood of the Amazon Kindle fire market, it falling steeply from a 16.8 percent share in the fourth quarter of last year to a rather scary 4 percent here in the first quarter of 2012. Read The Full Story

Target drops eReaders left and right

Chris Burns, May 2nd 2012 Discuss [0]

This week we're to understand per an announcement from Target themselves that they'll begin dropping ereaders from their stock starting this spring. The first of these will be the Kindle with the rest of the ereader line Target carries likely to follow. The motivation for this dropping could be one of three things, two of them being big-name brands you've certainly heard of Target tying with before. Read The Full Story

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Apple, not Amazon, is Microsoft’s NOOK Motivation

Chris Davies, Apr 30th 2012 Discuss [0]

Barely was the e-ink dry on Microsoft and Barnes & Noble’s $300m NOOK agreement when pundits were questioning the wisdom of adding Amazon to the software company’s existing roster of big-name rivals. Microsoft is already under attack in mobile and computing, so the commentary went; throwing one of the biggest retailers around into the mixture was at best foolish and at worst evidence of Microsoft spreading itself thin when it needs to be extra lavish with its strokes. That analysis is wrong, though. Make no mistake: Apple, not Amazon, is in Microsoft’s sights today.

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Apple Q2 Earnings Q and A reveals China, Anobit, Japan

Chris Burns, Apr 24th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week Apple is reporting their financial Q2 earnings with monumental numbers across the board including a $11.6 billion dollar profit and 35.1 million iPhones sold. These numbers were analyzed soon after the earnings call was complete with a Question and Answer session headed by Apple and lead investors. Questions mostly rang in about the future of Apple and their financial greatness, but also hit upon products and services. Read The Full Story

Xtex My Tablet 7 is just $150, runs Ice Cream Sandwich

Mark Raby, Apr 18th 2012 Discuss [0]

There's a new Android tablet that's on the low end in terms of price, but based on its technical specs you'd never know it. A company called Xtex has developed one of the cheapest Android tablets on the market, yet somehow it is also one of the most feature-rich at the same time. If the company managed to brand and market it effectively, it could take off in a big way. But in such a muddled tablet environment, that is a very big "if." Read The Full Story

Acer Iconia Tab A510 goes on sale

Mark Raby, Apr 17th 2012 Discuss [0]

Acer's latest attempt to strike Android tablet gold is now shipping to customers. The latest device, which packs in a powerful quad-core processor and comes fully loaded with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. It is available from Acer's online store for a retail price of $449, but isn't in any brick-and-mortar stores yet. Units will be showing up in other retailers in the next couple weeks. Read The Full Story

Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight Hands-on Wrap-up

Chris Burns, Apr 12th 2012 Discuss [0]

Barnes & Noble today revealed their next generation Nook in Nook Simple Touch form, this time with a brand new feature by the name of GlowLight. What we've got here is a $139 "Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight", perhaps the longest name in gadgets today, bringing the e-ink game to a new level of readability in the dark. Several publishers had their chance to take a hands-on look with this device in New York today, some of their more pointed opinions included here below. Read The Full Story

Google tablet not due until July: report

Mark Raby, Apr 6th 2012 Discuss [0]

Although Google hasn't even officially announced that it's working on its own tablet, there are already reports that it's being delayed. The device will not be ready until at least July, because Google is still working on tying a bunch of loose ends together to keep costs low. That is what a new report citing unnamed sources claims to have heard. The tablet is projected to be under $200. Read The Full Story

Next-gen E-Ink Kindle could get illuminated screen

Rue Liu, Apr 6th 2012 Discuss [0]

Amazon's next-gen e-ink Kindle may come with a front-lit screen, according to TechCrunch, which claims to have caught a glimpse of an early prototype. The e-ink display offers a more comfortable paper-like reading experience, but like paper it can only be read during the day or in well-lit conditions. Read The Full Story

Forget Air Display: turn your Kindle DX into a second screen

Chris Davies, Apr 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

If Air Display for the iPad caught your fancy but you have a Kindle DX rather than Apple's tablet, how about turning that E Ink ereader into a secondary screen instead. Arguably a whole lot less practical for general use, the nonetheless clever hack detailed by TinyApps involves jailbreaking the Kindle DX and then using a VNC viewer to set it up as a remote screen for your Mac. Read The Full Story

Google’s own tablet will launch this year: report

Mark Raby, Mar 29th 2012 Discuss [0]

If you haven't found an Android tablet that inspires you yet, you are not alone. But perhaps if there would be an Android tablet built by the people who built Android, that situation wouldn't be quite so common. And that is the exact plan of attack for Google, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The search giant hears you loud and clear and wants to rectify this problem. Read The Full Story