If someone can make a $100 tablet that is awesome, it will sell like hotcakes sprinkled with fairy dust and deep-fried in freedom. But this is not that tablet. The IdeaTab A1000 is Lenovo’s bargain-basement 7-inch Android offering, and its cheapness is glaring from the moment you pick it up.
Shoppers who tried to buy a Windows RT tablet at Dell’s website Friday morning would have seen one listed for US$299. By the end of the day the cheapest tablet came bundled with a keyboard for $479.
If true, reports that Nokia plans to release a tablet running Microsoft’s failed Windows RT OS are “bizarre” and “highly surprising” according to analysts who think the company should focus on its struggling smartphone business.
Across a spectrum of industries, Middle East organisations today face challenges that traditional data tier scaling cannot easily resolve, says Red Hat’s Christina Wong.
I’ve been using Google’s latest Chrome-OS-powered Chromebook laptop computer, the Pixel, for the past three months. At Google’s annual I/O developer …
The much-anticipated update for Windows 8 will begin shipping on Oct. 17, delivering a set of changes that Microsoft hopes will calm critics and improve sales of the tablet-optimized OS.
If you’ve been patiently waiting for Apple to launch its next iPhone, you might be excited to hear that Apple …
Over the past year, Microsoft has shown poor planning and a lack of respect for the tumultuous consumer market, which can sink or float a company within months.
Salim Ziade, the head of HP’s PC division in the Middle East, has left HP after 17 years with the company.
Highly organised Russian groups have transformed mobile hacking into an industrial scale business, a kind of “malware-as-a-service,” complete with marketing affiliates, distributors and customer support.
Consumers apparently don’t care if they buy a tablet from a cheaper, no-name brand, as a whopping 45 percent of tablets sold within the “other” category.
Microsoft yesterday added Android to the list of mobile operating systems now supported by Office Mobile. But Office Mobile for …
Eight months after the launch of Microsoft’s Surface line, the company has yet to turn a profit on its first …
Fragmentation has been both a blessing and a curse for Android since the beginning, and a new report says that’s not changing any time soon.
Microsoft’s Surface tablet has earned the company less in revenue than it paid to write down unsold stocks of the device.
Whilst working from home is nothing new, the working environment as we know it is on a path to radical change. Advances in cloud computing, portable technology and the ability to outsource business at the click of a button now means that enterprises in the UAE have less and less need to be tied to a fixed traditional office space.
An Android tablet brought back from North Korea by a tourist has provided a glimpse at some of the restrictions placed on IT users in the famously secretive country.
CompuMe UAE has revealed a rebranding initiative that includes the launch of a new name and logo, and now will …
Are you ready for talking watches, singing shoes and rings that can double up as Bluetooth headsets?
A new report from Forrester Research says these “post-PC” devices could fill a niche, or more than one, in the enterprise.
