Social Media SEOOne strategy RIM is using to draw more attention (and sales) to their newly release Blackberry Playbook tablet is by bringing Angry Birds to the device. RIM’s co-CEO Mike Lazaridas confirmed today at the BlackBerry World Conference that Rovio will be bringing Angry Birds to the Blackberry Playbook. There is no specific date for when […]
PushLife has just been acquired by Google for a reported $25 million. Founded by a former RIM (Blackberry) development executive Ray Reddy, PushLife allowed users to port their iTunes library to non-Apple phones. The interest from Google is obvious, let’s port your iTunes library to Android smartphones and tablets. PushLife announced via it’s website that […]
New research shows what tablets are mostly be used for, and it’s not surfing the web, as Apple CEO Steve Jobs would like to believe. Gaming is the most utilized activity on tablets. Here’s the graph from Google’s AdMob who conducted the survey: So perhaps we can look at the iPad and other Android based […]
Acer, sometimes rumored to be in the back pocket of Google themselves, decided to announce on Friday a 10.1 Android tablet that is designed to cut directly into the iPad user base. 10.1 inches, Android powered, and $50 cheaper than the iPad, this Android tablet is sure to be a hit when it shows up […]
This number would otherwise be huge, except we are comparing them to the iPad 2 sales. In the first two months of sales for the Motorola Xoom (Android 3.0 Honeycomb) tablet, estimated sales place the device selling about 100,000 unites. This number is not based on actual sales figures, rather on research from Deutsche Bank analysts […]
With sales figures coming in and more solid data about the supply situation at Apple, it’s safe to say at this point that the iPad 2 is a bigger success than the first iPad. The iPad 2 has shipped between 2.4 million and 2.6 million units, outpacing the first generation iPad shipments. Apple is expected […]
Why is it when the iPad 2 released, lines formed more than 2 or 3 blocks or longer to wait to get one? Even today, lines will form down the block if people know that the retailer has a sufficient supply of iPad 2’s. In fact, the supply and demand of the iPad 2 is […]