Samsung shipped 2 million Galaxy Tab tablets as alternatives to Apple’s iPad, but not all of them went to consumers. Moreover, consumers are returning the devices. – Samsung’s Galaxy Tab isn’t selling quite as well as the
company and media have initially portrayed, a company official acknowledged.
Moreover, there is some evidence that the 7-inch tablets
based on Google’s Android operating system are making a round trip from
retailers to consumers and back.
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Data Insight for Storage makes storage consumers accountable for what they bring into enterprise coffers. – Symantec on Dec. 15 came out with a new enterprise storage monitoring tool
designed to help identify enterprise employees who may be misusing corporate
storage.
By providing more visibility and control into the ownership and usage of unstructured
data, Symantec Data Insight for Storage aims to…
Holiday season 2010 was supposed to be a shopping boom for smartphones and netbook computers based on Google’s Chrome Operating System. The smartphone outlook is bright, as Apple’s iPhone 4 is the best of its kind. Meanwhile, Android smartphones took off like a rocket, starting with the Motorola Droid last November and continuing on with the HTC Droid, Incredible HTC Evo 4G, Motorola Droid X and the Samsung Galaxy S devices. The netbook boom didn’t happen. While smartphones rocketed, Apple went and upset that scheme in April by launching the iPad, the tablet computer that took the mobile computing world by storm. The machines sold millions of units, forcing Samsung, Archos, ViewSonic and others to crank up their touch-screen building engines. At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco earlier this month, tablets were everywhere. Also slowing the netbook roll is the fact that Chrome OS has been delayed for reasons unknown. So instead of showcasing netbooks this holiday season, eWEEK believes it is prudent to celebrate the devices that have made such an impact on the market. Here, eWEEK highlights the iPad, Galaxy Tab and some other choices to give tablet-curious consumers an idea of what they might get with the different machines. – …
3D displays are having a huge impact in the world of entertainment. We’ve already been treated to flood of films at the cinema featuring this new technology.
The “tri-mode” Dell Inspiron Duo, with Windows 7 and an Intel Atom processor, transforms from a family laptop to a media tablet to a movie screen. – Microsoft-running tablet PCs used to be solid enterprise territory, but the
Apple iPad has changed all of that. Case in point, the newest Dell, the
Inspiron Duo convertible tablet, was introduced Nov. 23 for students and
families.
A “tri-mode” device, it can be used as a laptop, with a chiclet …
The Intel AppUp center, an app store for netbooks, is now available to consumers in the UK. AppUp, first announced in September at IDF, includes both free and paid apps for social networking, entertainment, gaming and productivity, and is the first and only app store for netbooks to be made available for consumers in the UK and Europe. The service is being made available by Dixons Retail plc through store fronts for Curry and PC World.
Despite privacy concerns, consumers are willing to give cloud-based applications access to their personal data, a study reports. – Consumers are interested in the benefits of cloud computing,
but are worried about the privacy of their personal information, according to a
research report from Fujitsu released Oct. 27.
The report, quot;Personal Data in the Cloud: A Global Research
of Consumer Attitudes, quot; found data priv…
Everyone knows that the American consumer is deleveraging … living more frugally, and paying down debt.Right?Well, actually, as CNBC’s Diana Olick pointed out in April, many consumers are stopping their mortgage payments, and then blowing the money t…
Microsoft and Research In Motion will find themselves in competition this fall over the consumer market, with the respective releases of Windows Phone 7 and the BlackBerry Torch 9800. Both companies need more robust app stores and broad audience appeal to succeed. – Research In Motion used the Aug. 3 launch of the BlackBerry
Torch 9800 to position itself as more consumer-centric: during a high-profile
presentation in New York City, executive after executive touted the devices
multimedia and social-networking capabilities not to mention what the company
hope…
BlackBerry Torch 9800, RIM’s newest smartphone, has a delicate mission: retain RIM’s traditional corporate audience, while capturing consumer share from the Apple iPhone and Google Android. – When executives from Research In Motion took the stage in
New York City on Aug. 3 to introduce the BlackBerry Torch 9800, the companys
first sliding-keyboard smartphone with a capacitive touch screen, they
emphasized all the things designed to make the device particularly appealing to
consumers:…
AOL July 22 launched two Google Android applications and opened a new smartphone portal and mobile Website to better compete with Google, Facebook and Twitter in the emerging mobile content market. – AOL July 22 moved to shore up its mobile
offerings, launching two Google Android applications and opening a new
smartphone portal and mobile Website.
The company, which is working hard to transform into an Internet-content
provider, is making a big bet on mobile to compete for eyeballs with Goog…
RIM will soon offer consumer owners of BlackBerry smartphones many security features, such as data wiping and backup, which are currently enjoyed by enterprise users. – BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is poised to offer consumers several
features that until now have been extended only to its enterprise customers.
RIM introduced BlackBerry Protect on the company’s Inside BlackBerry blog July
12, announcing that the software is currently being beta tested an…
News Analysis: Apple has committed several blunders in the way it has handled the iPhone 4 and its antenna problems. And now it’s time for customers to think twice about letting the hardware company get away with it. – Since June 15 when Apple first offered the iPhone 4 for preorder,
the company has made several wrong moves. It started when Apple decided
to allow AT amp;T to control the iPhone’s preordering process.
By doing so, it left a key component in the
purchase of the iPhone in the hands of a company t…
Microsofts upcoming Windows Phone 7 represents the companys attempt to regain momentum in the smartphone space, where it faces tough rivals such as the Apple iPhone and Google Android. Windows Phone 7 takes a different approach than those platforms by consolidating its mobile applications and Web content into a series of subject-specific “Hubs,” such as “Games” or “Office.” In theory, this allows Microsoft to create a phone that equally balances consumer and business needs. At a recent New York City event, Microsoft showed off Windows Phone 7s user interface. For enterprise users, features such as streamlined access to SharePoint and Documents could come in useful; for consumers, easy access to music and games could prove a key attractor to the new platform. At least, Microsoft hopes so. – …
News Analysis: Speculation abounds about the eventual release of a Verizon iPhone. With reports claiming production is already under way for a fourth-quarter release, it’s time for prospective smartphone buyers to think about the potential opportunity presented by the availability of an Apple iPhone on Verizon’s network. – Once again, rumors are swirling that a Verizon iPhone is being produced and
will be released later in 2010. Conspicuously missing from Steve Jobs’
Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, an Apple iPhone for the Verizon
Wireless network was one of the products that many consumers had been hoping
…
News Analysis: AT&T is under fire lately for its handling of iPhone 4 preorders. But rather than simply pinpoint AT&T’s issues, perhaps it’s time to determine what Apple and consumers can learn from the debacle to ensure that they don’t run afoul of a similar problem in the future. – When
Apple
first introduced the iPhone 4 and said consumers could start preordering
the device on June 15, there was a general belief that the process would be
handled properly. After all, this is the fourth-generation iPhone.
It
would seem that by now, Apple and AT amp;T would know what the…
When it comes to Apple, there aren’t many things that scare the company.
It knows that it’s a top-notch firm in the industry. It also realizes that when it comes to delivering products to consumers, it’s among the best. But that doesn’t mean that the hardware company doesn’t cast a worried eye toward some competing products on store shelves. It might not believe that competing devices can beat its own offerings, but rest assured that the better the competition, the more likely it is to get concerned about its own sales. It’s simple business. And not even the mighty Apple is immune to it. Let’s take a look at 10 products, including hardware, software and Web services, that Apple would like to see go away without a single consumer realizing that they even existed. – …
The FCC May 11 said it wants wireless carriers to notify their customers before they reach roaming or data usage limits under their wireless service plans. The idea is to staunch bill shock where users receive a wireless phone bill that is higher than they expected. One remedy for bill shock is to ask wireless carriers such as Verizon Wireless, AT T, Sprint and T-Mobile to send their customers a short text message warning them that they are approaching their roaming and data usage limits.
– The Federal Communications Commission wants wireless carriers to notify
their customers before they reach roaming or data usage limits under their
wireless service plans, a move to staunch the quot;bill shock quot; syndrome
that is plaguing the nation.
Bill shock is, quite simply, the unfortuna…
