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- ComScore: Amazon’s Kindle Fire Now Has Over Half The U.S. Android Tablet Market (And All The Mindshare?) | TechCrunch
The researchers say that as of February 2012, Amazon’s Kindle Fire now accounts for 54.4 percent of all Android tablets in the U.S. Given how many different models of Android tablets there are out in the market at the moment, that gives it a …
- Tor Books goes completely DRM-free
Tor Books, the largest science fiction publisher in the world, announced that henceforth all of its ebooks would be completely DRM-free. This comes six weeks after an antitrust action against Tor’s parent company, Macmillan USA, for price-fixin…
- iPad Made Up 97 Percent of Enterprise Tablet Activations in Q1 2012
After analyzing mobile device activations from its enterprise customers during the first quarter of 2012, Good found that the iPad continues to dominate the enterprise tablet landscape, while Android slates are struggling to gain traction. The …
- Tablets vs. Laptops | eHow.com
If you want portable computing power, your options include laptops, tablets, netbooks and ultrabooks. Since the iPad debuted in 2010, tablets have sold so well that tech analysts speculate that they may eventually kill the laptop market. Tablet…
- Next Generation Of E‑Ink Kindle To Sport New Front-Lit Screen | TechCrunch
The device I saw was crudely camouflaged in a sort of cardboard enclosure, but the screen was clearly visible. With a tap, a slider popped up on the screen, and as it was dragged to the right, the screen lit up evenly with a rather cool light. …