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90% of US tablets are Wi-Fi, explain iPad lead over Android

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A new study on Tuesday from consulting firm Chetan Sharma has pointed to a very strong bias towards Wi-Fi tablets in the US. Based on data from the past summer, the most recent point at which there was a detailed breakdown available, about 90 percent of American tablets were Wi-Fi models. Read more...

The iPad Will Always Be the Most Popular Tablet Computer

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COMMENTARY | TechnoBuffalo might be reporting on an IDC report that claims Android powered tablets will have a larger global market share than the Apple iPad by 2015, but sometimes it is hard to see past that shiny new Retina display on the iPad 3. Of course, the report is probably right. Read more...

Archos outs Child Pad, undercuts Amazon at $129

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Archos set a new floor for mainstream tablets Thursday by previewing the Child Pad. The seven-inch tablet is expected to cost just $129, $70 less than even the Kindle Fire, but would still promise Android 4.0. Its child focus comes through an OS design that's meant to safeguard younger users through a filter, provide an easy-to-follow visual theme, and child-oriented apps both for games and for education... Read more...

IHS iSuppli: Kindle Fire eating ASUS, Samsung share the most

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A rare breakdown of tablet market share by IHS iSuppli has shown that the Kindle Fire may be doing more damage to other Android manufacturers than to Apple. Amazon was estimated to have shipped 3.9 million units in the fall, or enough to get it 14 percent of the market. While this dropped the iPad's 15.4 million units from 64 percent share to 57, other Android supporters lost over a quarter of their own share.... Read more...

Startup develops handwriting recognition technology for Kindle Touch (Digital Trends)

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Digital Trends - Announced on the company’s official site recently, Seattle-based Puzzazz has designed a technology called Touchwrite that recognizes letters and numbers on e-readers. While handwriting technology isn’t a new achievements, this is the first time any company has found a way to use the technology on devices like Amazon’s Kindle Touch. Puzzazz officials have shown off an example of the technology working on a Kindle while playing a game of Sudoku. Users can draw a number within a Sudoku box on the game board and it appears on the Kindle Read more...