Monday, November 8, 2010

Samsung Galaxy Tab, Toshiba Folio Quickly Sell Out at Thailand̢۪s ComTech 2010

Distributors and retailers selling the two hottest tablets available in Thailand, the Samsung Galaxy Tab, and the Toshiba AS100 Folio tablet, quickly sold all units on hand during the Commart ComTech 2010 trade show in Bangkok this week. The Galaxy Tab arrived in Thailand on the first of November on a pre-order basis for 22,900 [...]

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Saturday, November 6, 2010

Location Based Services

Location based services have been steadily growing and a recent report indicates that 7% of all mobile phone users have used the services via a browser. The Pew Internet report presents the results of surveys from August 9th to September 13th from a population of 3,001 adults. All of the participants were at least 18 [...]

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Friday, November 5, 2010

Chinese Manufacturers Cranking Out Android Tablets

Chinese manufacturers see the growing opportunity in tablet computers and are mass producing them in all shapes, sizes and colors, most equipped with the Android operating system. This was evident in a recent trip by “Mee” to see what is currently happening with tablets. “Mee” is our reporter in the Asian region. On her recent [...]

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Thursday, November 4, 2010

iPad Popularity

The iPad is still king of the hill in terms of tablet devices, controlling the market with a market share in the mid 90′s. No one has come close to cutting into that share and with the announced tablets for the holidays, it does not appear anyone will be impacting them. As a result of [...]

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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Android OS Continues to Grow

Android equipped phones have continued to grow based on a ComputerWorld Report yesterday. It does appear the threat to all other providers, in particular Apple, is one where they may be fighting a losing battle against. Even the recent lawsuit by Microsoft against Motorola, which is aimed at the Android OS may not be enough [...]

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Multi-Carrier SIM Card In An iPhone?

There were rumors floating around last week about Apple and SIM-card manufacturer Gemalto, regarding the possibility of creating a SIM card which could allow the iPhone user to change carriers without having to set foot in the carrier’s store. This is from GigaOM and is very interesting to hear. All of this is supposedly happening [...]

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Monday, November 1, 2010

The Firesheep Scare

Firesheep made headlines last week after it launched for its ability to allow anyone to hijack and gain access to password protected website accounts over shared wireless networks, such as those used at Internet cafes. Firesheep is a free Firefox Add-on that reads cookies being sent over an unsecured wireless network. These cookies are typically [...]

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