iPad 2s worth £500,000 given to 1,200 Essex school kids
iPad 2s are being handed out to all 1,200 students at a secondary school in Essex at a cost of almost £500,000.
iPad 2s are being handed out to all 1,200 students at a secondary school in Essex at a cost of almost £500,000.
HP is investigating how several TouchPads reportedly shipped to end users running Android, instead of webOS.
Oracle on Tuesday showed JavaFX rich client software running on both an Apple iPad and a Google Android-based Samsung Galaxy tablet, along with introducing a separate project using HTML5 to bring Java to Apple's iOS platform, called Project Avatar.
It's a late night, and you've fired up Facebook on your ACME.com company-owned iPad to post some bad news. "A reduction in workforce is going to happen this week," you type into your update status field and tap the post button.
The Kindle Fire tablet, announced by Amazon.com on Wednesday, has three traits that make it competitive in a crowded tablet market: a low $199 price, a fast browser called Amazon Silk, and access to an abundant ecosystem of movies, music, apps, and books.
The growth of Android tablet shipments has begun outpacing that of the iPad in Australia and New Zealand. However, although Android tablet shipments tripled in Q2 compared to Q1, the iPad still dominates the market and shipments of Apple's tablet doubled in volume during the same period.
Watch out, CIOs! The Kindle Fire may be coming to a cubicle near you.
Amazon's new Fire tablet may disrupt the Android market, but it's unlikely to have a significant impact on Apple's iPad business, according to analysts.
Would Harry Potter have needed to take spells classes if he'd had access to the magic of the <a href="https://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/120101-iphone-quiz.html">iPhone</a>?
Apple is being sued by Via Technologies in the US over three patents for microprocessors.
Anyone hoping for a scrappy underdog to knock the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/111910-apple-ipad-resources.html">iPad</a> off its perch as the world's top tablet will have to wait a long time, says analyst firm Gartner.
Strangeloop is coming out with a Web-site optimizer that speeds up page builds on mobile devices based on Apple, Android and Microsoft operating systems.
Business is full of dramatic narratives, from CEOs with unique personalities to soaring sales and market crashes to cutthroat competition. Inside a company's massive storehouse of business data, you'll often find nuggets that foreshadow what's coming-that is, if you look hard enough and can make sense of it all.
Sharp is discontinuing the production of two of its three Galapagos tablets less then a year after launching them.
Apple's iPad 2 continues to be an overwhelming first choice for both corporate and consumer customers who plan to buy a tablet in the next 90 days, according to recent surveys.