Category Archives: Mobile computing

Tablet Market Diversifying Away From Apple’s iPad

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Android and Blackberry have already made deep in roads in the iPad’s presumed invincibility Windows 8 is poised to make an assault next.

Blackberry Playbook, selling at $199

Last May, the media was calling Apple’s iPad the unbeatable market leader. In less than a year Apple has lost major market share to Android and RIM.

Deep price cuts, new smaller and larger tablet sizes, marketing and features and Microsoft Windows 8 will all erode Apple’s current dominant position with the iPad.  Continue reading →

Apple harvesting privacy data promises to stop with update

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Inquiry by US Congress forces Apple to admit it has been stealthily harvesting iPhone users private date


ComputerWorld – US Congressmen Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook asking him about iOS apps that have harvested users’ address book information without permission.

Shortly after two U.S. Congressmen asked Apple to answer questions about iPhone and iPad apps that snatch users’ contact lists without permission, the Cupertino, Calif. company promised it will address the issue with a future software update.  Continue reading →

Consumer Preview of Windows 8 available February 29

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Microsoft will be providing a free download of the new version of the world’s most popular computer operating system

Windows 8 Metro interface

Microsoft announced that the next step in releasing Windows 8 will occur with a Consumer Preview release of Windows 8. Within 12 to 18 months of deployment of the final release more than 500 million copies of Windows 8 will be on smart phones, tablets, desktops, laptops and servers around the world.

Actually Microsoft didn’t announced the preview but did invite people to a special event in Barcelona, Spain after which consumers will be able to download the free consumer preview of Windows 8. Continue reading →