Las tablets crecieron a costa de las PC

Tablets To Grow 53.4% This Year, Says Gartner, As The Traditional PC declines 11.2% [Updated] by Natasha Lomas (@riptari) The tablet category is continuing to eat the PC’s lunch, albeit it’s a large lunch so the feast is taking a while. Analyst Gartner expects worldwide tablet shipments to grow 42.7% 53.4% [Gartner has issued a correction to its earlier figures] this year, with shipments reaching 184 million units. And while traditional PCs are still shipping a lot more units (303,100 forecast for this year), those shipments are continuing to decline — predicted to be down 11.2% on 2012 shipments. That’s lower even than Gartner’s prior forecast, back in April, when it said it expected PCs to decline 7.3% this year. Growth in the...

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Tablet norcoreana sorprende

On North Korea’s surprisingly amazing tablet you can play Angry Birds and read Dickens By Lily Kuo The Samjiyon tablet isn't likely to be sold out. AP Photo/Vincent Yu “After a few days of intensive use I can say that this is one of the few cases in my career as a consumer when I got more for my money than I had expected.” Rüdiger Frank, a professor at the University of Vienna and frequent visitor to North Korea, bought a Samjiyon SA-70, the only tablet made in North Korea, at a shop in Pyongyang last month, for €180 (about $240). He has now posted a lengthy review of the device, named after the location of a Korean-Japanese battle in 1939. And he has some remarkably nice things to say about it. + When...

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La revolución de las tablets indias

India’s tablet revolution will change the world sooner than you thinkBy Vivek WadhwaVivek Wadhwa is the vice president of innovation and research at Singularity University, and fellow at Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University. Just a swipe away from a revolution. Reuters/Parivartan Sharma This originally appeared on LinkedIn. You can follow Vivek Wadhwa here.  + I wrote this article for Times of India. It is India-focused, but the same lessons apply everywhere. Cheap tablets, connectivity, and social media have already fomented revolutions in Middle East. They are causing China to have a harder time controlling its restive population and allowing the world’s children...

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El iPad más caro del mundo se vende vergonzosamente en Argentina

Here's How Much An iPad Costs In 46 CountriesLIZ TAY, BUSINESS INSIDER AUSTRALIA SEP. 23, 2013, 11:49 AM 11,617 1Business Insider Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin Australia has become the 4th cheapest country in which to buy a 16GB iPad with a retina display, according to CommSec economists Craig James and Savanth Sebastian. CommSec’s latest iPad index, released today, compares the price of an iPad in 46 countries to track the impact of currency changes on consumer spending, globalisation and retailer margins. Chief economist James suggested today that the result could imply that the AUD was now fairly valued. In Australia, Apple’s latest wifi-only 16GB iPad with retina display now costs $A539 ($US506.66): the fourth cheapest...

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Windows: A todo monopolio le llega su cambio tecnológico

In Case You Don't Appreciate How Fast The 'Windows Monopoly' Is Getting Destroyed... HENRY BLODGET Business Insider Bill Gates' infamous video-taped testimony in the Microsoft anti-trust trial. In the late 1990s, a single technology company became so unfathomably rich and powerful--and so hellbent on dominating not just its own industry but a massive and rapidly growing new one--that the U.S. government dragged the company into court and threatened to break it up over anti-trust violations. The case was settled, and the company, Microsoft, agreed to play nicer. But it turned out that the world had nothing to worry about. As often happens in the technology industry, what has really destroyed Microsoft's choke hold on the...

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Pantalla es igual a papel

El tiempo de lectura de noticias en tabletas es ya igual al de periódicos impresos Tabinnovation El tiempo dedicado a la lectura de noticias en periódicos impresos y en tabletas es el mismo. Por primera vez, en países como Alemania, Francia o Estados Unidos el porcentaje de público que lee información de actualidad en papel es igual al que consume estas noticias en sus tablets. Estos son los datos arrojados por el último informe World Press Trends, una de las fuentes más importantes en la medición del mercado de los periódicos en todo el mundo. Este documento, además, indica que si bien la circulación de periódicos ha caído casi un 1% durante 2012, más de la mitad de la población adulta mundial lee diariamente el periódico. De ellos,...

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Papel y pantalla digital: No tan perfectamente sustitutos

The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens E-readers and tablets are becoming more popular as such technologies improve, but research suggests that reading on paper still boasts unique advantages By Ferris Jabr In a viral YouTube video from October 2011 a one-year-old girl sweeps her fingers across an iPad's touchscreen, shuffling groups of icons. In the following scenes she appears to pinch, swipe and prod the pages of paper magazines as though they too were screens. When nothing happens, she pushes against her leg, confirming that her finger works just fine—or so a title card would have us believe. The girl's father, Jean-Louis Constanza, presents "A Magazine Is an iPad That Does...

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