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On Wednesday, Amazon introduced color screens and touch screens to its Android-powered Kindle lineup. With this, Amazon brings a combination of three critical elements to the tablet marketplace that no company — not even Apple — has matched: a full product line, a powerful business ecosystem and a unique combination of revenue streams. How will it compete in the tablet, video and online media spaces? This research note examines the prospects at hand. Read more at GigaOM Pro »

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Enjoy “painting” on your iPad? It can produce some amazing results, but it doesn’t really feel like the real thing. That’s where Sensu comes in. It’s a new twist on the stylus that replicates real bristles using touch-screen compatible synthetic “hairs,” and looks good doing it. Read more »

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The Kindle Fire is a straightforward tablet that doesn’t try to outdo the iPad but focuses on media consumption. It’s got simpler ambitions with pricing to match. And that’s why I think it’s going to do really well, by exceeding its set expectations. (With video demo.) Read more »

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As much as I’m tied into Apple’s ecosystem for hardware and apps, my e-book loyalty lies with Amazon. Luckily, Amazon’s design choices and pricing strategies, as revealed Wednesday with its latest Kindle line, mean I can have my cake and eat it, too. Read more »

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Amazon is finally jumping into the tablet market with the Kindle Fire, a 7-inch $199 device built off Android with its own custom interface and plenty of hooks into Amazon’s marketplace of goods. It also intelligently leverages Amazon’s cloud infrastructure for better storage and browsing. Read more »

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Amazon’s Kindle Fire is now a known quantity, thanks to details from Amazon executives. The Android-based tablet has an attractive price, but to get there, it cut so many corners it probably won’t make much of a dent in Apple’s market lead. Read more »

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A day after an analyst spooked Apple investors with a report that the company had cut back on iPad production, other analysts are saying everything is fine. Some have their own theories on why Apple may have lowered orders for some iPad parts. Read more »

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Is Facebook’s iPad app stuck in pre-release mode or are finishing touches being applied right now? There are two reports Monday concerning the social network’s much-anticipated iPad application that paint two somewhat different pictures of the situation. The latest says Facebook’s app could arrive next week. Read more »

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Data is in demand on college campuses, and it’s putting a strain on shared school networks. The iPad is partly to blame, according to University of Missouri-Columbia IT director Terry Robb, but it’s mostly acting as a gateway drug for the real culprit: online video. Read more »

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There are 20 new tablets set to hit stores in the next few months, and only one of them has a chance to give Apple any sort of competition. That exception? Amazon’s very-likely-to-soon-to-be-announced, overhauled Kindle, according to UBS analysts, which surveyed the not very hopeful field. Read more »

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The only constant in the hot tablet and smartphone market remains change. The top 50 Android apps take up to 65 percent of users’ time but eleven of the top 50 swapped out in the past three months, Neilsen’s Jonathan Carson told Mobilize 2011 attendees. Read more »

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Given that a press invite from Amazon just hit my Inbox for next Wednesday, it’s a safe bet that the long wait for Amazon’s tablet entry is about to end. It’s not meant to compete with the iPad, but at $250, it ought to sell well. Read more »

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The fight for the TV audience is quickly moving online and to a growing number of mobile applications, with Apple’s iPad as the latest battleground. Over the last 18 months, a number of broadcasters and pay-TV operators have launched iPad apps that provide access to streaming ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »

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Smartphones and tablets now trump laptops as the newer, more mobile devices use airport Wi-Fi more than traditional computers, according to data collected by Boingo Wireless. Although laptops outnumber mobile devices by a factor of five, the smaller devices use nearly 60 percent of airport Wi-Fi. Read more »

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Apple has another patent-related lawsuit on its hands, reports Bloomberg. VIA Technologies Inc., a Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer, filed suit against Apple on Wednesday with the U.S. District Court in Wilmington, Del. over the alleged misuse of three of its microprocessor-related patents. Read more »

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Tablet sales will continue to rise from 17.6 million sales last year to 326.3 million by 2015, says Gartner, but the iPad will still dominate the market. There’s good reason to believe Gartner’s iPad estimates, but some of the other platform numbers don’t quite make sense. Read more »

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