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Microsoft’s Surface and the Problem of Branding

Posted: June 19, 2012 at 6:34 am

Huge South Korean electronics company LG Electronics will abandon its tablet PC effort, according to Bloomberg. LG is among the five largest cellphone makers in the world. It should have ...
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Dell Too Late to Tablet Market

Posted: January 11, 2012 at 6:56 am

Dell’s (NASDAQ: DELL) habit of coming to market with products well after its competitors do  continues. Reuters reports that the PC company will launch a tablet later this year. Dell ...
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Google Tablet to Menace iPad?

Posted: December 27, 2011 at 6:34 am

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) chairman Eric Schmidt says his company will launch a new tablet PC in 2012. The product will run on the firm’s Android OS mobile platform. Google likely ...
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Does Amazon Have a Larger Kindle in Mind?

Posted: October 4, 2011 at 6:32 am

Several analysts who track consumer electronics sales say that sales of the Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle Fire are already into the hundreds of thousands. The 7-inch tablet may not be ...
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Sony’s New Tablet, Stringer’s Latest Failure

Posted: September 1, 2011 at 6:36 am

It has been said and written a hundred times: Sir Howard Stringer is the wrong person to be CEO of Sony (NYSE: SNE). It is possible that no CEO could ...
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Amazon Tablet May Sell Five Million Units in Q4

Posted: August 30, 2011 at 6:25 am

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is likely to succeed where Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), Dell (NASDAQ: DELL), Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) and several other PC and consumer electronics companies have failed. Its ...
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The Nine iPad Apps Changing Business

Posted: August 16, 2011 at 5:42 am

It was not long ago that computers revolutionized the way people do business across the world, fully changing the way that people communicate and organize their personal and professional lives. ...
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In Apple’s Shadow, Amazon Labors

Posted: August 11, 2011 at 6:25 am

Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) stock has outperformed Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) over the past year, past two years, and past five years. But, Apple is the leader, supposedly, in the creation and ...
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Rumors We Would Like To Hear: HP Sells PC Unit

Posted: June 14, 2011 at 10:49 am

Hewlett-Packard's (NYSE: HPQ) new CEO Leo Apotheker can rearrange his management team as much as he likes. He can also push out his most talented executive, Ann Livermore, who has been ...
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AT&T/T-Mobile Deal May Not Help Apple

Posted: March 20, 2011 at 3:55 pm

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), the preeminent provider of smartphones to AT&T (NYSE: T) Wireless, may not get any new customers if its deal with Deutsche Telekom AG to acquire T-Mobile USA ...
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Tablet PC Sales To Rise 12-Fold By 2015 Driven By Apple iPad

Posted: February 6, 2011 at 7:31 am

Apple (AAPL) may make significantly more money from its new iPad that it has on any other product it has launched since 2001 when the iPod came to market. Research ...
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The iPad Erodes Newspaper Print Subscriptions

Posted: December 10, 2010 at 3:06 pm

First, video killed the radio star.  Now, it looks like the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad is causing the same sorts of disruption to newspaper publishers. According to a survey of ...
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Good, Bad, Or Irrelevant: New BlackBerry Tablet Three Times Faster Than iPad

Posted: November 16, 2010 at 4:50 pm

Verdict: Irrelevant The CEO of Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) told the Web 2.0 conference that his firm's new tablet PC is “three to four times faster” than the iPad. Jim ...
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A Tablet PC From HP, A Gamble On Windows

Posted: October 22, 2010 at 5:54 am

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) has begun to show its new Slate tablet PC. The company still guards some details about the machine, but the media has ferreted out a bit about ...
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Intel Doesn’t Fear Competition from Tablets (INTC, AAPL, MFE, IFNNY, ARMH)

Posted: October 13, 2010 at 10:18 am

In its third quarter earnings report, Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) posted better than expected EPS and revenues, but the company had already lowered the bar in August. The chip giant ...
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