As we have reported earlier, the traditional PC and computing market is under a lot of stress. The source of that stress? Tablets. Mobile technology is slowly but surely eating up the formidable market share of traditional computing devices. This trend has impacted two of the biggest technology players in the market. We are, of […]
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Intel Cuts Back on Work Force Due to Tablet Market Shift
Intel, Microsoft and other companies that focus on the old paradigm of computing need to watch their backs. The truth is that, the computing market is changing dramatically. Thanks to the explosion in the tablet market fueled by the iPad and several Android tablets, more and more people are discovering the joys of tablet computing. […]
Intel Pays Hardware Makers to Use its Tablet Chips
What do you do if you are the leader in a market that is showing signs of decline? You try to find a way to get into an area of your market that is growing ? by hook or by crook ? right? This is exactly what Intel is doing. It is paying hardware manufacturers […]
Android Tablets Step up to Eight Inch Standardization
It used to be that when you mention the word “mini” or “mini tab”, you are of course talking about the seven inch frame for mobile devices. As we have reported, Apple has taken up Samsung’s initiative to step up the size of mobile phones to larger and larger footprints. It looks like the same […]
iPad Mini Retina Display Availability Problems Pushes iMac Air
A lot of people were excited when Apple unveiled the price points for the iPad Mini with retina display, after all, retina display is truly amazing. It really turns your mobile device into a high definition graphic wonder gadget. It makes video viewing and picture browsing way more enjoyable than traditional lower resolution graphics display. […]
The PC Death Spiral Continues
Who would have thought that in a decade, we would about the possibility of a PC going functionally extinct. Who would have thought about that? It sounds crazy, right? But it just goes to show you the power of one man’s vision. We all know that Steve Jobs did not invent the tablet, everybody and […]
Some Key Reasons to Cheer on the Microsoft Surface
Microsoft, the software giant from Redmond, Washington, sure raised a lot of eyebrows recently when it announced that it would be releasing its first hardware product, the tablet dubbed Surface. This raised many eyebrows on so many levels. First, Microsoft is a software giant, and it is not a hardware manufacturer. Questions regarding core competencies, […]
Google and Microsoft tablets signal a key shift in strategy
As we have mentioned earlier at Ereviewguide.com, Google, Apple and Microsoft have widely diverging grand strategies regarding their products. To put in to most basic terms, Google is all about internet connections, Microsoft is all about the operating software and Apple is all about hardware devices. Given the recent announcement of Microsoft’s Surface tablet and […]
Microsoft releases iPad rival to boost Windows 8
It’s very hard to feel sympathy for Microsoft. It is even harder to feel pity for the software giant. It is quite difficult because we’ve seen in the past how it has dealt with its competitors, whether it is Netscape Navigator in the browser wars or real networks in internet audio. In between these two […]
Keep an eye out for the Google Nexus Tablet
Last December, Google’s head honcho Eric Schmidt told an Italian paper that Google plans to launch its own tablet to go head to head with its arch rival Apple. Schmidt said that the tablet will be of “the highest quality.” What made this prospective product launch plan different was that it sidestepped the obvious hype-building […]
