tablets

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Amazon to Release New Tablet; Rumored Nook Color 2

Today in New York, Amazon.com is expected to launch its own tablet device. It is reportedly called the Kindle Fire.

It is expected to be a strong competitor against Apple’s iPad and iPad 2, which produced 75% of all tablets sold this year.

According to TechCrunch, in addition to surely being able to read Kindle e-books the Kindle Fire will: Continue reading

Hewlett Packard Abandons WebOS Only Thirteen Months After Buying Palm for $1.2b

Products and strategies fail sometimes, but rarely so quickly.  Tech giant Hewlett Packard has, withing 6 weeks of launching the TouchPad tablet, not only ceased sale of the tablet but announced it is withdrawing from the tablet game completely and that it is ceasing to develop webOS tablets and phones – the very things which were meant to have been the reason it acquired Palm Inc for $1.2b just over a year ago.  That’s a very expensive mistake. Continue reading