The arrival of Amazon’s Kindle Fire, a $199 tablet, in a market dominated by $500 models looks like an obvious case of price disruption.
Not so fast, says Horace Dediu, an analyst at Asymco: Amazon’s margins are too thin to …
Amazon will lose around $10 for every $199 Kindle Fire tablet it sells, but the company will make back that amount as a small profit when consumers buy digital content, according to a report by market research company IHS iSuppli.…
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A growing number of game visionaries are saying a single game can reach a billion people. That idea has become a cause célèbre, providing a target for an industry that is expanding beyond its old boundaries.
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Samsung has updated its 7-inch Galaxy Tab with better specs like a dual-core processor and Honeycomb Android OS, the company said today. It’s calling the upgraded device the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus. The Galaxy Tab, first released at the end …
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Who will save what’s left of Palm from HP’s bumbling? It could be Amazon, as the online retailing giant is in serious negotiations to snap up Palm from HP, VentureBeat has learned.
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Online real estate finder Trulia is launching a big play on Android this morning with two new apps: an Android tablet app, and an app made specifically for renters.
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Amazon’s announcement of the Kindle Fire today threw down the gauntlet for both tablets and e-book readers. At just $199, it’s not much more expensive than previous e-readers, and it’s a heck of a lot cheaper than competing tablets.
In …
Amazon unveiled its much-hyped Kindle Fire tablet in New York City on Wednesday.
Many analysts think the tablet and e-reader could cut into sales of Apple’s iPad and be a huge holiday hit with its $199 price point. One senior …
Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablet and Kindle Touch look like the company’s best consumer devices yet, based on demonstrations from Amazon staff at the company’s launch event today in New York City.
Unfortunately, Amazon didn’t let me or anyone else …
Cloud storage provider Box.net will now work with Salesforce.com’s enterprise social network, Chatter, and its mobile application will now come pre-loaded on the Motorola Xoom tablet, the company announced today.
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Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablet, unveiled today, runs a customized version of Google’s Android mobile operating system that relies heavily on an Amazon-produced web browser called Silk.
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Today we finally got our first glimpse at Amazon’s Kindle tablet at a New York City press event, and the company also introduced cheaper Kindle e-readers with touch capabilities.
First, the summary of Amazon’s new Kindles:
Kindle Fire. It’s a …
While we’re all waiting with bated breath for the full details of Amazon’s Kindle tablet tomorrow morning, the company may also be readying its successor tablet for the first quarter of 2012, reports GDGT.
That means early adopters of Amazon’s …
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Not that it’s a huge surprise, but it doesn’t appear that Apple’s iPad will be dethroned as king of the tablets anytime soon.
The iPad will account for 73.4 percent of worldwide tablet sales this year (down from 83 percent …
The inevitable layoffs for workers in HP’s webOS division began this week, with the company planning to let as many as 525 workers go, reports All Things Digital.
After HP killed its webOS hardware business out of the blue in …
Microsoft will adopt a familiar Apple policy for the tablet applications on its new Windows 8 operating system.
Microsoft’s Windows 8 is the latest operating system to adopt a walled-garden approach to mobile app sales.
Windows 8, as Microsoft explained …
Clarifying some confusion from earlier this week, Microsoft has made it clear that Windows 8 tablets and notebooks running ARM processors won’t be able to run apps from the x86 (running Intel and AMD CPUs) version of the OS.
The …
A Foxconn Electronics manufacturing plant in Brazil is ready to begin production on the third-generation Apple iPad with shipments starting in December, according to Digitimes.
Consumer demand worldwide for the iPad is enormous, so it makes sense that Apple would …
Microsoft has big plans for Windows 8′s touch interface, but at the moment, those plans don’t include Adobe Flash.
The company said today that Windows 8 will include two versions of Internet Explorer, but its “Metro style” touch-specific version will …
