Two-thirds of the employees at Chapters Health System opted to pick an HP Chromebook 14 over a Windows laptop or iPad, which has made the IT department happy. There are cheaper… Read more »
After four years of full pricing, Apple is offering a $20 to $30 educational discount on its iPad line. Why now? Perhaps its just an effort to ramp up iPad sales,… Read more »
Windows is dropping the price of Windows 8.1 by 70% for tablet and PC makers, under renewed pressure from Google’s Chromebooks, Bloomberg reports. I wrote about Google’s new deal with VMware to… Read more »
Tablets featured prominently in the connected consumer space during the second quarter of 2012, both as a product category in their own right and as a component of broader platform strategies… Read more »
Two stories making the rounds show there’s more than one way to deliver core platform technologies without being in the operating systems business. Google has apparently incorporated huge chunks of its… Read more »
HTML5 isn’t yet fully ratified, but browser vendors are nonetheless starting to implement some of its features. This presents a huge opportunity for forward-thinking web app developers, which in turn will… Read more »
For all the hype around the iPad, other hardware makers and software developers are not conceding the tablet or mobile apps market to Apple. Leading netbook-maker Asus says it plans to… Read more »
The past year, despite the difficult economy, has presented several pockets of strength for the mobile industry, most surrounding wireless data. Increase in data consumption is being driven by changing consumer… Read more »
Last week, Mozilla celebrated Firefox’s fifth birthday. It may seem hard to believe that it’s really been that long since Firefox first burst onto the browser scene, but it’s equally hard… Read more »
The netbook business, new as it is, is entering a period of significant change. New enabling technologies, devices and services that are coming to market in the coming months will bolster… Read more »