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On May 7, 2024, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) announced the launch of its latest iPad models: the iPad Pro equipped with the powerful M4 chip and OLED displays, and the iPad Air now featuring the M2 chip. These introductions mark the first update to the iPad lineup since October 2022, signaling a...

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has made it a habit lately of challenging Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AAPL) products through aggressive ad campaigns. The software giant has just released another, this time taking aim at Apple's iPad Pro. What Happened: In a new 30-second ad,...

Technological obsolescence, which has swept many once much-sought after products into oblivion, could come to haunt tablets, according to data from market researcher IDC. Tablet PCs are wireless portable computers with a touchscreen interface and a form factor that's smaller than a notebook...

Are TVs dead and being replaced with tablets and smartphones? If you ask Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX), the answer is a clear no. What Happened Netflix's management said during a briefing last week that most new users sign up to the streaming video platform on a smartphone or computer, Recode...

PC shipments have been on the wane for the eighth consecutive quarter, marking the longest duration of decline in the history of the PC industry. A release on market research firm Gartner's quarterly PC tracker survey showed that third quarter PC shipments fell 5.7 percent year-over-year, a faster...

AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) disclosed Friday that its Trek 2 HD tablet would be available online and in stores throughout the country for $0.99 commencing from August 5. The devices come with a two-year agreement. Alternatively, the company indicated an installment plan of $7.50 a month for twenty...

Shipments of wearable computing, especially of the functional and stylish variety, will exceed 19 million units in 2014, according to research from International Data Corporation released Apr. 10. In addition, IDC reported that by 2018 the worldwide market would grow to nearly 112 million units...

Worldwide tablet sales grew 68 percent through 2013, according to information technology research and advisory company, Gartner (NYSE: IT) in a report released Monday. Tablets, Gartner said, made up 90 percent of overall ultramobile sales in 2013. In addition to tablets, the ultramobile sector...

On a conference call Thursday, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) chief executive officer, Meg Whitman had some good and unexpected news about revenue growth. Not just revenue growth per se but growth in the unlikeliest of areas, PC sales. The Personal Systems Group (PSG) posted revenue of $8.5...

Even though a 2K smartphone display has not yet officially arrived, Samsung (OTC: SSNLF) said it would come out with 4K display sometime in 2015. For a bit of perspective consider this. On a 5-inch screen, a 2K display provides resolution of 2,560 x 1,440 pixels, or 560 pixels per inch....

Applebee's, owned by DineEquity (NYSE: DIN), announced this week that tablets will be installed in every table of its 1,860 locations in the United States by end of 2014. Over 100,000 Intel (NADDAQ: INTC)-backed tablets from Presto (NYSE: NPK) will be be used by customers for ordering food and...

According to market research firm, IDC, by the end of 2013, worldwide PC sales will have fallen more than 10 percent over a year ago. IDC said it would turn out to be the worst year on record for PC sales. Total sales this year, IDC said, would be about 314 million PCs, with most of those in...

According to DigiTimes Research, global tablet shipments are expected to rise 23.6 percent in 2014 to total 289 million units. The large growth rate pales in comparison to smartphone growth, however, as the tablet market has already entered the maturity stage (when sales peak as the product reaches...

Spending for the first half of 2013 on mobile advertising totaled $3 billion. It was $1.2 billion a year ago, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau. This represents growth of 145 percent and was a significant contributor to the historic $20.1 billion brought in by Internet advertisers...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is known for innovation. When it comes to smartphone screen size, however, not so much. While competitors like Samsung (OTC: SSNLF) offer smartphones in a variety of sizes, Apple has kept the iPhone screen size in narrow focus with the largest, the iPhone 5, a mere 4-...