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Apple to hold a March 2 iPad event, Yerba Buena location

Published on: 27th February, 2011

There are signs that Apple will organize a March 2 iPad event. A couple of leaks specified the new model of iPad would be unveiled at this event. Another source has detailed and said that Apple had chosen the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco to be the host of the event [...]

Analyst believes third-generation iPad will get 2,048×1,536 display

Published on: 23rd February, 2011

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo from Concord Securities believes that the iPad 3 will be the first to get the 2,048×1,536 display. Kuo, having the reputation of a historically accurate researcher, has concluded that the fringed-field switching display with its doubled resolution was too expensive and also not yielding enough to equip the current model of iPad. [...]

Introduction of Opera for iPad at Mobile World Congress

Published on: 20th February, 2011

The Norway-based browser Opera, which has been more successful as a standard browser on mobile phones than as a browser on desktops, will be present with a version dedicated to the iPad in Barcelona, Spain, at the Mobile World Congress. The announcement of the company is accompanied by plans for new versions of Opera Mini [...]

ASUS prepares a counterblow for the new iPad

Published on: 7th February, 2011

ASUS seems to have prepared a secret weapon against the new iPad, according to what chairman Jonney Shih hinted in a recent interview. The company’s four new tablets presented at CES were only the start and they would certainly be accompanied by a special device. Shih did not tell Computerworld whether it was a tablet [...]

RIM claims PlayBook’s battery life at least equal to iPad’s

Published on: 3rd February, 2011

RIM has persisted in defending the BlackBerry PlayBook against doubt over the battery life of the tablet. Jeff McDowell, senior vice president for business and platform marketing at RIM, stated that the PlayBook’s battery life would be at least equal to that of the iPad with smaller battery size. He suggests that analysts’ scepticism related [...]

Microsoft presentation to scare companies away from the iPad

Published on: 30th January, 2011

A recently revealed presentation from Microsoft proves that the company has tried to encourage its partners to scare away enterprises from the iPad. It says corporate customers would get only get weaker enterprise security, device variety and application support. What ZDNet found out is addressed to those who have or have not iPads and tries [...]

Unofficial count shows 100 clones of the iPad presented at CES and more to arrive

Published on: 30th January, 2011

A Shawn Dubrovac’s unofficial tracker has shown the extent to which companies jumped on the tablet market as a consequence of the success the iPad had. There are at least one hundred tablets on the list as well as crossover e-readers, which include major names like the Xoom of Motorola or the BlackBerry PlayBook, but [...]

Report says iPad 2 ready in February and iPhone 5 in May

Published on: 30th January, 2011

The production of the second-generation iPad is expected to begin in February, while the assembly of the fifth-generation iPhone is scheduled to begin in May, says the Chinese Commercial Times. The production of the iPad is said to begin with a small pilot only, which may once again put in discussion early availability. Shipments for [...]

iPad may have 2,048×1,536 display when third generation arrives

Published on: 26th January, 2011

Tom Mainelli, IDC research manager, says that the iPad could get a 2,048×1,536 display only when a third-generation model is ready. Apple seems to have requested that manufacturers start to work on displays with the mentioned resolution, which would equip the iPad 3. The only problem is believed to be production capacity and not the [...]

Acer expects its netbook sales to rise while others give up due to iPad

Published on: 26th January, 2011

Acer hopes to preserve its sales of netbooks as other companies could fail first, according to Scott Lin, Taiwan president of the company. Some competitors drop out this year and Acer’s netbook shipments could fill the empty places. Lin also said that the market was stable at about 30 million units this year and even [...]

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