Tablets: What Amazon and Apple know that all the CES tablet peddlers are still missing

Tue, 10 January 2012

By Jason Hiner The Toshiba Excite X10 is an impressively slim tablet. Photo credit: Eric Franklin/CNET When I wrote about why Android tablets did a faceplant coming out of the starting gate in 2011, the most common reaction was that I had written off Google too quickly. After all, it wasn’t until Android smartphones were

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Focus on the content, not the tablet that’s used to deliver it

Tue, 06 December 2011

By Patrick Gray   Takeaway: Patrick Gray believes that a tablet’s success relies on the content that’s available on the device, which must be compelling in that particular format. I’ve been fielding lots of questions about the technology behind tablet devices. IT staff worry about security and manageability, and everyone else — from consumers to

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Retailers slash prices on RIM’s PlayBook tablet

Tue, 27 September 2011

Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM-T22.34—-%) is heavily discounting its PlayBook tablet, joining a growing number of companies trying to compete with Apple’s (AAPL-Q403.17—-%) ultra-popular iPad by slashing prices on their own mobile devices. Retailers from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to Best Buy Co. Inc. have begun offering steep discounts on RIM’s tablet computer, which has suffered

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