This week Amazon announced the Kindle Fire the company’s lower-end entry debut into the tablet market and new edition to the Kindle family. The Fire is different. It has a color touch screen and can play video, for example. More significantly, Kindle Fire can run apps on a proper operating system which is a modified version of Google Android and [...]
Google made a $12.5 billion investment today that the Internet is moving mobile with an announcement to acquire Motorola Mobility Holding. This allows Google to get into the business of making smartphones and tablets. The future of Android builds, Google claims 150 million mobile activations of Android worldwide and 550,000 devices are activated every day. This acquisition will not change our commitment to [...]
Tablets are the technology industry’s latest gold rush, flat multitouch personal devices that stream movies, connect to the web, manage media, and offer an ever growing number of apps for just about anything. Apple sold 15 million tablets, the iPad, in 2010 and are expected to sell 45 million in 2011. New tablets continue to hit the market with Motorola, [...]
