Tablet Crunch

Below is a link to a recent video from Motley Fool where developer Chris Bledsoe and senior technology analyst Eric Bleeker talk about the future of tablets and ask the question, can tablets pass the pc in sales? The numbers at the core of this discussion comes from a recent forecast by NPD that predicts by ...

Important Tablet Accessories If you plan to purchase a tablet, there are a few accessories that will be essential if you want to maximize your tablet’s lifespan and overall potential. Depending on how you will be using your tablet, the accessories you choose to purchase will vary. Let’s take a look at a few accessories that may ...

Based on the evidence that Apple's market share in the tablet space is decreasing, and will continue to drop sharply through 2012 as competitors flood the market, it seems to me that Apple will need to diversify it's tablet product line with a family of iPad (or tablet) product offerings. No one expected a 7 inch ...

Apple took a hit today when a US Court rejected their bid for a preliminary injunction against Samsung. Apple is doing everything they can to prevent Samsung from releasing products that Apple claims are copy cats of devices such as the iPhone and the iPad. US District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California denied he request ...

There's a lot of buzz building up right now around Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 release. Of course, you have the typical Microsoft hater that's going to drill MS for anything and everything they do. Let me just say right now, I'm not that guy.  Microsoft is, in my opinion, the original pioneer in personal computing. But with tablets ...

It's hard to believe that the iPad was first introduced less than 2 years ago.  It was on January 27, 2010 when Steve Jobs entered the stage and completely revolutionized the world of personal and mobile computing by introducing the iPad. What a great moment in the history of technology.  And I say that not necessarily ...

Asus Transformer Prime Outlook My prediction:  The Asus Transformer Prime tablet is ultimately going to fail because, among other things, they are attempting to compete against Apple with their specs and hardware - something that's already been proven to fail. The tablet market is defining itself right before out eyes.  You can see it in every aspect ...

It's quite possible that an image of the upcoming iPhone 5 has been leaked through Apple's latest Photo Stream beta.  The icon (see image below) fits the model of the rumored design specs - an elongated home button and extended screen. Exactly what we have here, of course no one will know for sure.  But the ...

Angry Birds was the top selling app in the Apple app store for 275 days and it has recently been dethroned by The Heist. On it's second day at the top the Heist sold more than one app per second.  There are 86,400 seconds in a day. The Heist sold 89,798 on it's second day at the top. The Heist ...

Mark Zuckerberg, has said that from now on the only protein that will be on his plate will be put down by his own hand. He wants to be reminded of the sacrifice that animals must make in order for us to eat meat. Zuckerberg said in an interview wit Fortune that this is part of his ...

Apple approved it's 500,000th app.  For a while they have been teetering on the mark with apps coming and going. However, they have finally surpassed the mark of 500,000.  They have 85,569 unique developers which have helped them to reach this milestone. The most popular application categories are games, then books followed by entertainment and education. Angry Birds ...

The game released by Chillingo and developed by Rovio, Angry Birds, has set a new record in the Apple app store.  Angry Birds has held the number 1 paid spot for 275 days and counting.  Rovio has done well in marketing the game through movies and with lots of accessories both of which help to ...

MacDefender is the first piece of authoritative looking scareware to target Macs.  Scareware is a term for fake security software that once downloaded causes frequent popups that claim your computer is infected and that you must buy the full version to remove the bugs when in fact the alarms are bogus and the program is ...

In Plano Texas AT&T demonstrated their  super-fast LTE network.  In the demonstration they were seeing download speeds of nearly 29 Mbps and upload speeds of 10.4 Mbps.  For comparison, Verizon Wireless claims download speeds of 5 to 12 Mbps.  According to the engineers that ran the test there are three major factors that determine the ...

There was a recent fire in a factory where Apple has it's iOS devices manufactured. Apple was beginning to catch up on the demand for the iPad 2 and there was talk of an iPhone 5 release in June.  However, with this setback they will surely fall behind in meeting the sustained demand for the iPad ...

Angry Birds has surpassed an app milestone with more than 200 million downloads.  Rovio had put out more than 50 games before it found the bird that would really take off.  Now they have incorporated their success into a movie and they have produced a wide variety of Angry Bird accessories.  Also the word is ...

Recently Facebook is found to be secretly hiring a PR firm to spread rumors about Google.  Now California Senator, Ellen Corbett has introduced Social Networking Privacy Act (SB 242).  This Bill would require social network providers to establish privacy settings when they register and to make the default setting to private revealing only the name and ...

Dropbox is a cloud based data storage site that has nearly 25 million users.  They have told these users that the information stored with them is safe. However, the FTC feels that they have been misleading at a minimum and that their business protocols fall short of the security that they have promised.  At the ...

Microsoft has conducted research that concluded 90% of people seek advice from friends and family before making a decision and a further 80% delay decisions until their friends have given their approval.  Using this data Microsoft has joined forces wit Facebook to leverage these relationships with the results generated through the Bing search engine.  If you ...

Reporters have been asking Amazon founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, about a possible tablet coming from Amazon for some time now and bloggers have speculated about it for months.  A Consumer Reports interviewer asked this question of Mr. Bezos one more time and this time instead of the standard "'no comment" Mr. Bezos gave a ...