Barnes & Noble’s complaints about Microsoft have accused the Windows developer of not just trying to be anti-competitive by discouraging Android but also trying to dictate what features Nook devices could use. Microsoft allegedly had “veto power” through prices as well as the terms of the license. It wanted control over what hardware and software […]
Panasonic is exiting the small-to-mid-sized TV LCD panel business. Instead, according to the Japanese news service Nikkei, it will focus on producing panels for tablets and 50-inch and larger TV panels. The company claimed that demand for the smaller TVs has dropped since the Japanese government stopped offering subsidies for energy efficient appliances, effectively making […]
UK-based ARM Holdings has reported record third quarter earnings. Its Cortex A8 and A9 reference designs currently dominate the smartphone market and are in use by Android manufacturers and Apple in its iPhone, iPad and iPod touch lines. Its third quarter revenue doubled from £14.8 million in 2010 to £31.5 million in 2011. Its total […]
Sprint in a policy update late Thursday took to further curbing uses of non-phone data by capping 4G. It now makes no distinction between 3G and 4G and uses the same 3GB, 5GB, and 10GB caps for both. Both technologies share one cap as well as the same overage fees of five cents per megabyte, […]
Vizio has announced that Vizio Tablet owners can get even more entertainment from their devices with three months free of the Hulu Plus subscription service. Hulu Plus, one of the hottest apps, delivers an extensive library of TV and film content from over hundreds of providers and independent creators. With Hulu Plus preloaded on the […]
Many if not most smartphone and tablet owners are often using the device at the same time as they watch TV, Nielsen found Thursday. About 40 percent of phone owners and 42 percent of tablet owners used theirs every day in front of the TV. About a quarter more in each case were using it […]
Apple managed to gain market share in tablets at the very time that many of its new competitors were supposed to be taking that share away, IDC said Wednesday. Having full access to data from the past spring, it found that the iPad had gained share, moving up from 65.7 percent at the start of […]
THX senior VP Rick Dean in an interview Monday said his company was pursuing its certification process for smartphones and tablets. The audio team was “actively going down that path” of hoping to improve mobile audio, in part because mobile devices could now output to a TV. Size limited what THX could do, but Dean […]
ASUS defied trends in an overall downward trend in PC builders by posting healthy results for its spring quarter. Its net earnings were up five percent to $124 million and its net profit climbed to $242 million based on better than anticipated notebook and tablet sales. Despite being a veteran of netbooks, its operating profit […]
Media tablets are on pace to become a ubiquitous, mass-market, consumer product faster than any-other previously released, technological device. The powerful implications of this rapid adoption on publication paper markets is the subject of a new study The Impact of Media Tablets on Publication Paper Markets, published by RISI, the leading information provider for the […]
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