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Acer, Lenovo May Release Windows 8 Tablets This Year

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With Microsoft releasing its newest operating system, Windows 8, by the second half of 2012, various hardware manufacturers are now preparing to release products that will coincide with Microsoft’s product release.

Two big manufacturers that are planning to launch products that will coincide with the Windows 8 release are Acer and Lenovo. There are talks that these two manufacturers are preparing to release Windows 8 enabled tablets powered by Intel processors by the third quarter of this year. [Read more…]

Originally posted on January 4, 2012 @ 11:49 am

Tablet Owners Who Use WiFi Over Mobile Broadband Increases

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Based on the results of a study conducted on tablet owners, it was revealed that more tablet owners are now using WiFi this year. The study, which was conducted by Connected Intelligence – a division under the NPD Group, showed that in April 2011, 60 percent of the total number of tablet owners said that they only employ WiFi to go online. Only five percent of those studied had expressed any plans to get a mobile 3G broadband plan in about six months. [Read more…]

Originally posted on December 15, 2011 @ 2:58 pm

Verizon To Release Motorola Droid Xyboard Tablets This Month

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Verizon is planning to come out with two Motorola tablets this December, according to a report that was published on CNet. The two tablets are actually from the same Xoom 2 family, the brand that Motorola is using for the international market. The two tablets are going to be a 10 inch and an 8 inch version. But for the American market, the Xoom 2 name will be dropped in favor of Droid Xyboard. Verizon’s line of high end devices is Droid, hence the name change. [Read more…]

Originally posted on December 2, 2011 @ 5:19 pm

4 Best Apps Teens Traveling Abroad

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Today’s teenagers travelling abroad have many more tools available than the backpacking generations that came before. Countless apps can keep them from getting lost, getting on the wrong train or saying the wrong thing in foreign language. Parents rest a little easier when their young adult children wander off into the wilderness. Before you send them off on teen tours in the wild blue, make sure they have the tools they need.

Mobile Phone Travel Basics

It starts with checking on your phone’s service plan. Some plans charge per kilobyte and will run up a bill into the tens of thousands if you do not configure your plan for international use. When you ask your phone provider about their options, read the fine print.

AT&T’s International Calling Plan only includes some countries and caps you at 20MB of data use. Most pictures and videos are at least 2MB, so you would run through that very quickly if you were depending on your apps abroad. To safeguard yourself against piling on obscene fees, ask a rep to give you the steps you need to shut off your network service on your device and only access your email from hotel or café internet services. You can use all your apps and make Skype phone calls through whatever Wi-Fi is available. You can easily reconnect to your network whenever you would like. [Read more…]

Originally posted on November 28, 2011 @ 6:12 am

Underperforming Playbook costing RIM Half a Billion Dollars

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The potential goldmine that is the tablet market is luring a lot of companies into trying out their luck with this new market niche and hoping that they can become as successful as Apple, the company that recreated this whole sector. Research in Motion (RIM) was one of the companies that thought that it can replicate its early success with its BlackBerry brand with a tablet and released the BlackBerry Playbook April of this year. Unfortunately, just like many of the other companies that dipped their toes into the tablet pool, RIM is finding out the hard way that success in the tablet market can be quite elusive. [Read more…]

Originally posted on December 5, 2011 @ 6:24 pm