New Delhi: Expanding its Galaxy Tab portfolio, Samsung has announced to launch its new tablet " the Galaxy Tab (7.0). The tablet will run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and is powered by a 1GHz dual core processor. The Galaxy Tab 2 will be available in 3G and WiFi versions. Reportedly, the device will also include 1GB of RAM, a 3 megapixel camera, VGA front camera and HSPA+ connectivity. It...
08:43 PM, Feb 13, 2012
New York: A news report says Apple plans to unveil a new iPad early next month. AllThingsD, a website affiliated with The Wall Street Journal, says Apple Inc. is holding an event in San Francisco the first week of March - the same week Apple announced the iPad 2 last year. The report cites unnamed people familiar with the device. Apple declined comment Thursday. It's not known whether the new...
10:43 AM, Feb 10, 2012
Duesseldorf: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's reworked tablet PC does not look like a copycat version of the iPad, a German court said, affirming a preliminary assessment and dealing another legal blow to Apple Inc. Apple is fighting several rival makers of smartphones and tablet PCs in courts worldwide over intellectual property. Samsung changed the design of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 for the German market - naming it Galaxy Tab 10.1N...
06:32 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Beijing: China has ordered a probe into the alleged iPad trademark infringement dispute between US-based gadgets maker Apple and a local company. The probe came over a month after a Chinese court rejected Apple's lawsuit accusing a local company of infringing on trademark "iPad" that could have resulted in it's having to sell it under a new name or cough up USD 1.6 billion. The Municipal Intermediate People's Court in...
12:23 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Bangalore: The low-cost Aakash tablet PC will be made completely indigenous and its production base diversified, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal today said. "We are now going to diversify production base and indigenise Aakash tablet. We are planning to create eco-system for end to end development of Aakash in India. This will create enormous opportunities for R&D institutions, developers, electronic production houses," he said at a function here. He said the...
12:13 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New York: Motorola Mobility says about 100 Xoom tablet computers that it refurbished for sale on Woot.com may not have been properly wiped of the previous owners' data. Motorola is offering two years of free credit monitoring to anyone who bought a Xoom tablet from an outlet like Amazon.com Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc., RadioShack Corp., Staples Inc. between March and October, and then returned them. The stored data could...
04:19 PM, Feb 04, 2012
New Delhi: The tendering process for rolling out the improved version of the world's cheapest tablet PC, Aakash, will be handled by the Department of Information Technology, official sources said. The development comes in the wake of differences between IIT Rajasthan and Datawind, the manufacturer of the tablet PC, over the issue of enhanced specification demands. HRD Ministry has entrusted the IIT to develop and procure the tablet. Currently, the...
12:38 PM, Feb 01, 2012
Frankfurt: Samsung Electronics lost a bid to overturn a ruling barring its local unit from selling its Galaxy 10.1 tablets in Germany, handing a symbolic legal victory to Apple Inc in efforts to keep its lead spot in the tablet computer market. A higher regional court in Duesseldorf, Germany, said on Tuesday that Samsung may not sell the older version of its Galaxy tablet in Europe's biggest economy. Apple is...
07:37 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Cupertino: Apple Inc overtook Hewlett-Packard Co as the world's largest vendor of personal computers in the fourth quarter, helped by booming demand for its iPads, research firm Canalys said on Monday. In the fourth quarter, tablet demand helped drive the global PC market 16 per cent higher than a year ago to 120 million computers, Canalys said. Excluding tablets, the market fell 0.4 per cent from a year ago, said...
12:33 PM, Jan 31, 2012
New York: Tablet computers using Google's Android software narrowed the lead of Apple's iPad on the global market in the fourth quarter, research firm Strategy Analytics said on Thursday. Global tablet shipments reached an all-time high of 26.8 million units in the fourth quarter, growing 2-1/2 fold from 10.7 million a year earlier, the research firm said. "Dozens of Android models distributed across multiple countries by numerous brands such as...
12:34 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Amsterdam: Apple again lost a bid on Tuesday to have Samsung tablet computers banned in the Netherlands in a Dutch appeals case over infringing copyrights of its iPad tablet computer. Apple, which has been locked in legal battles with Samsung in almost a dozen countries involving smartphones and tablets, had appealed a Dutch ruling, which said last year Galaxy Tab 10.1 models were not a copy of Apple's iPad. A...
05:58 PM, Jan 24, 2012
San Francisco: Apple Inc coasts into 2012 with a strong wind in its sails, a clutch of envelope-pushing products in its hold, a record share price, and a steady hand at the tiller. But its very success - with the market-leading iPad and the voice-enabled iPhone 4S - is luring cheaper rivals to the surface. Google Inc's Android, launched a few years ago and taking aim squarely at the high-end...
10:43 AM, Jan 23, 2012
New Delhi: Datawind, the maker of the lowest priced tablet 'Aakash', said it will request the Human Resource Development Ministry to include 'Made in India' clause in the proposed tender for the low-priced device. "Datawind successfully made the USD 49.48 tablet Aakash in India despite various pressures. We will make a request to the ministry (MHRD) that they should consider 'Made in India clause' and encourage indigenous production," Datawind CEO...
12:21 PM, Jan 22, 2012
New Delhi: Eyeing for an enhanced version of low cost tablet Aakash, the HRD Ministry today held a high-level review meeting and is understood to have evaluated the project and also performance of the gadget so far. HRD Minister Kapil Sibal had indicated that the improved version would be launched by April. He had said several other manufacturers including ITI would be involved in manufacturing it. Datawind, the maker of...
02:57 PM, Jan 18, 2012
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