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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

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The Simplest Things Are Not The Cheapest

Philip Berne, Apr 22nd 2012 Discuss [0]

My parents bought my toddler a kid’s tablet as a Hanukkah gift. I had been checking out the VTech Innotab and Leap Frog Leapster tabs as options for him. They bought him the Innotab, with an accompanying, rugged digital camera built for kids. The Innotab is a tough little device, with rubber bumpers all around. It has a resistive touchscreen and a stylus that slots into the back. It comes with some basic programs, and you can download more apps from the company website. It’s almost easy enough, but having used it for a few months with my son, I’ve come to realize a fascinating change in the state of technology. The more you pay for a product, the simpler it becomes.

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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

Pottermore throws open Hogwarts doors to all

Chris Davies, Apr 17th 2012 Discuss [0]

JK Rowling's Harry Potter site, Pottermore, has fully opened its doors, adding social and interactive content around the boy-magician to the existing ebook offerings from last month. Announced last year, Pottermore is Rowling's attempt to extend the lifespan of the Harry Potter series beyond the original series of books, splitting readers into one of the four Hogwarts houses and then granting them access to specially-produced extra writing and other media. 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

NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight leaked

Chris Burns, Apr 11th 2012 Discuss [0]

There's a new device coming to the world of e-readers and it's being delivered on the good ship Barnes & Noble. A bit of signage has been leaked to the public introducing a GlowLight-toting NOOK Simple Touch e-book reader, this effectively bringing an integrated frontlight to the simple e-reader market before the competition has the chance. This is a bit different from what the average tablet-owner knows as backlit, but will certainly have you reading in the dark much longer than your eyes could have otherwise stood on their own. Read The Full Story

iPad will continue to lead in 2016, says Gartner

Rue Liu, Apr 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

Market research firm Gartner has released its latest forecasts for worldwide media tablet sales to end-users, revealing that the iPad will continue to take the lead through at least 2016. Its forecast estimates tablet sales for 2012 to be 118.9 million units, which is up 98 percent from the 60 million units sold in 2011. Read The Full Story