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Tablet PC Suppliers from China Try Innovative Ways Inspired by the Success of iPad
TMC Net
Just one month after the iPad was first launched, 60 percent of China’s netbook manufacturers and many of its portable media player suppliers began rolling out tablet PCs as cost-effective alternatives, Global Sources’ China Sourcing Report revealed. …
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Tablet demand, low Netbook sales hurting PC market
CNET
by Lance Whitney Higher tablet demand and lower Netbook sales are likely to take a greater bite out of the PC market this year than expected, according to data released today by Gartner. Global PC shipments are now forecast to grow by 9.3 percent in …
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The shaky coexistence of tablets and smartphones at the carriers
ZDNet (blog)
One of the most interesting things that cropped up with this behind-the-scenes lurking experiment of mine was how much more likely customers were to buy carrier-branded netbooks than tablets. Customers are still coming to the carrier retail stores …
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Unbranded tablets doing well
Fudzilla
The growing size of the whitebox tablet PC market, with nearly a 20 per cent share in is being seen as a sign of increasing demand by the mainstream market for tablets. It is also an indication that people do not want to pay for a keyboardless netbook …
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Dear Ubuntu: The netbook is toast
Register
Netbooks were a promising new market until Apple clobbered them with the iPad. Today, netbooks, laptops, and desktops are being cannibalized by the nascent tablet market, as IDC reports. In tablets, Linux wunderkind Android is a rising force, …
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TechTalk: Can iOS 5 kill the Netbook?
KWCH
So, on paper, it seems that the iPad, and to an extent the iPhone and iPod Touch, are now computers (or tablet netbooks). The only time you’ll really need to plug it in is to charge it. Can this software update kill the netbook? Google is betting no. …
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Ultrabook to enter an already crowded and confusing market
The Australian
Then there are netbooks: dinky little computers that were tremendously popular a couple of years ago but now appear a dying breed, largely as a result of tablets such as the iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab and Motorola Xoom.Netbooks have been fine for doing …
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PC Growth Weakens as Demand for Tablets Rises
Top Computer Tablets
Acer which sells a large number of Netbook PCs got the hardest hit from last year with a decline of 20.4 percent in sales because of its direct competition with tablets. HP still reigns as number one PC maker with 15374 PCs sold in the first quarter. …
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CORRECT: Microsoft Dictates Arrangements For Tablets -Sources
Wall Street Journal
But the Taiwanese company is being hit by sluggish demand for notebook personal computers, as Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) popular iPad is eating into the notebook and netbook markets globally. Microsoft has also had to adjust to the rising popularity of mobile …
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June is Samsung gadget month; Chromebook and tablet shipping days apart
ITworld.com
Through a deal with Gilt, certain CR-48 recipients (myself included) were offered an early shot at picking up Samsung’s dual-core Google-fueled netbook. $499 got you the 3G version of the computer and a "limited-edition Chromebook sleeve designed by …
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