Tablets

Take a little test by yourself: say the word "tablet", and what is the first thing that pops into your mind? The iPad. While there are many other tablets out there, the iPad is the first one everyone thinks of. Even in Android-dominated Asia, the iPad still owns the Asian ...

Well now, here's something to nibble on. New research suggests that Apple now 85% of the global tablet market -- around 20% more than research company Gartner predicts it will have by the end of this year.The research, from web-monitoring company Pingdom uses data from global web usage on tablets. ...

Last month, we gave you the low-down on internet prophet Mary Meeker's 2012 Internet Trends. One of the things that Meeker pointed out is that mobile traffic is growing at a tremendous rate, accounting for nearly 10% of all internet traffic. Interestingly, 3G subscriptions only account for 18% of the ...

The Microsoft Surface looks alright... nice one Microsoft. But, while you were strutting your stuff on the catwalk of LA’s swanky Milk Studios, could you hear the collective grumble rising from the tech industry?The Surface is an assault on your arch enemy’s iPad and MacBook Air, turned up to eleven, ...

The gloves are off as Microsoft, for the first time, commits to a range of computers that bears its own name.In a very Apple-like way Microsoft held a super-secret event in Los Angeles which got the Tech world speculating and claiming all sorts of inside info. Many were close, ...

Look, we all know tablets are selling in their droves. What you might not know though is that they’re about to eclipse smartphones as a means of connecting to the web.According to the latest report from Adobe’s Digital Index, tablets will generate more web traffic than smartphones by 2013. ...

Go to most boardrooms today and you’ll see less and less people with laptops and more people using tablets and smartphones.As Android and iOS have firmly cemented themselves into the on-the-move computing via tablets and smartphones, Microsoft is yet to make its cautious leap into the fray. While Microsoft’s Windows ...

“Sorry, it is not available,” the shop assistant told me. Ordering online wasn't a possibility either; the ASUS Transformer was nowhere to be found. My rooted, white Pandigital tablet was too clumsy and slow for the job of mobile reporting and reading. I needed a real, powerful tablet. After quite ...

Micro Electronic Mechanical Systems (MEMS) are crucial pieces of equipment in our smartphones and tablets. You might take them for granted, or might not even know what they are, but 4-billion are set to be built into our mobile devices by 2016.MEMS include accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers and others such ...

Egypt is set to give out free tablets to some 10 000 university students.According to Cairo-based newspaper Al-Ahram, the project is a collaboration between the ministries of education and communication. It was announced at Cairo's ICT conference. It is unclear how precisely the government will decide who the ...