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Worldwide Tablet Growth Hits the Brakes, Slowing to the Low Single Digits in the Years Ahead, According to IDC

by Helen Vince

Following the first year-over-year decline in worldwide tablet shipments in the fourth quarter of 2014 (4Q14), the International Data Corporation (IDC) has scaled back its five year forecast for the product category. Worldwide shipments …

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Apple Passes Samsung to Take Smartphone Market Lead

by Tom Allen

Worldwide smartphone sales reached 367.5 million units in Q4’14, rising almost 30% YoY. Gartner’s data shows that Apple displaced Samsung as the market leader – a spot that the Korean company has held since …

Kiosk Group Announces Next Generation of iPad, Android and Windows Kiosks

by Helen Vince

Kiosk Group, Inc. has revealed the next generation of tablet-based self-service kiosks with its Revolution 16 and Revolution 24 enclosures. The Rev16 and Rev24 have been designed to offer short lead times, low-cost implementation …

Tags:Android| iPad| Kiosks| tablets| Windows

Android 2014 Share Eclipses Total 2014 Smartphone Market

by Tom Allen

Android and iOS maintained their dominance of the worldwide smartphone market in Q4’14, says IDC, and in fact managed to improve their market share by double digits. These two operating systems represented 96.3% of …

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 9

by Tom Allen

Asian sources have said that three major notebook vendors – Dell, HP and Lenovo – are expected to release models with on-cell touch in the first half of this year. The sources said that …

Dell Readies 2015 Education Lineup

by Tom Allen

Dell’s new additions to its education portfolio include a laptop, tablets and a Chromebook. All four products (Chromebook 11; Venue 10 and 10 Pro tablets; and Latitude 11 Education Series laptop) are ‘playground-proof’, with …

IDC: Record Smartphones Cannot Keep European Mobiles From Stagnation

by Tom Allen

Total mobile shipments fell 5.2% YoY in Western Europe throughout 2014 – the second consecutive year that the market has shrunk. Total shipments reached 174.1 million units. Feature phones continued to plummet, with shipments …

Microsoft Developing Snapdragon 810 Handset

by Tom Allen

Microsoft is working on a new Windows Phone unit, which will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 processor. Juha Kokkonen, general manager for portfolio and product management at Microsoft, confirmed the news, but no other …

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 6

by Tom Allen

A USB 3.0-to-DisplayPort graphics adapter has been released by Diamond Multimedia and supporting UltraHD resolution. The BVU5500 uses DisplayLink’s DL-5500 chipset (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 3) and is compatible with Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, …

Microsoft Will Charge for Corporate Windows 10

by Tom Allen

While Microsoft has committed to providing Windows 10 for free to users of Windows 7 and 8 (both Home and Pro versions) (Microsoft unveils Windows 10), corporate users running the Enterprise version of the …

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Huawei Backs Away From Android at MWC

by Tom Allen

Huawei has said that it will introduce new wearables and tablets at MWC in March. The company’s focus will be on premium devices. Although specifics were not announced, Huawei did say that it would …

Ruggon Shows High Specs With Rugged Body

by Tom Allen

Taiwan’s Ruggon has created the Ruggon Rextorm rugged tablet range. Created for field work, the tablets feature 1,000cd/m² of brightness, dual hot-swappable batteries and capacitive touch supporting gloved operation. The three tablets (PX-501, PM-521 and …