Published on: 14th March, 2010

About 25 percent of those customers having bought an e-book reader would have preferred to buy an iPad. About 27 percent of the persons who owned an e-reader device as of February would have preferred to buy an Apple device instead. Less than half of them, i.e. 45 percent, would still have chosen the device [...]
Published on: 9th March, 2010

According to a recent research2guidance estimate, in the next three years, the smartphone applications market could grow by more than eight times. Last year’s revenue has reached about $1.94 billion; by 2013, the market could grow over 807 percent, to almost $15.65 billion. The prediction has been based on a major push into smartphones around [...]
Published on: 18th February, 2010

Analysts say that the iPad has catalyzed the iPhone application development in a spectacular way compared to Android. iPhone application development nearly tripled in January versus December, from 600 new applications to over 1,600. The iPad launch is considered a potential opportunity for early applications to get more sales.
Google’s platform has seen a development jump [...]
Published on: 27th December, 2009

Alfred Hubler, a physicist at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign campus, has described a new digital quantum battery that could offer both a huge increase of the energy output and in storage capacity. The gains are still theoretical at this moment, but the new concept consists in billions of nanoscale capacitors and is based on [...]
Published on: 20th November, 2009

Recent data regarding the summer sales of cell phones reveal interesting tendencies of this industry. The influence of Apple on the smartphone market has increased, as data for this summer confirmed. The iPhone platform has reach 17.1 percent compared to 12.9 percent at the beginning of this time frame. This means the iPhone is on [...]
Published on: 10th October, 2009

Studies conducted by the NPD Group have revealed a growth of US homes that have at least one Mac. As opposed to last year, when the figure was of only nine percent, in 2009 the growth reached 12%. Even though this a huge leap for Mac, 85 percent of these homes also have [...]