The OnLive company offers PC gamers a subscription based access to a virtualized session hosted in the cloud, a virtual storage space which allows people to have access anytime anywhere to a virtual hard-disk storing GBs of movies, games, pictures, documents, applications etc. This allows users to play games with graphics which outrun their PCs hardware specifications. OnLive first brought its revolutionary technology for Apple’s iPhone devices in late 2009, following a massive success.
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Nokia design chief Marko Ahtisaari is spending a third of his time on creating a tablet for the cellphone maker, which would stand out among hundreds of iPad-challengers, he said in an interview with Finnish magazine Kauppalehti Optio.
Apple Inc is seeing record pre-orders for its latest iPad with wait times for shipping the tablet now reaching two to three weeks, said Canaccord Genuity analysts, who now expect the company to sell 65.6 million iPads this year.
Flat screen maker LG Display Co Ltd is supplying touch-screen panels for Apple Inc's new iPad, a source close to the matter said on Wednesday.
Apple Inc is seeing record pre-orders for its latest iPad with wait times for shipping the tablet now reaching two to three weeks, said Canaccord Genuity analysts, who now expect the company to sell 65.6 million iPads this year.
Antitrust regulators investigating Google for potential antitrust violations have asked Apple Inc how it incorporates Google search on its iPad and iPhone, Bloomberg reported citing two people familiar with the matter.
Intel's manufacturing whiz and new chief operating officer, Brian Krzanich, says he has fine-tuned his supply chain to meet expected demand for chips for smartphones and tablets.
Supply concerns over Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) new iPad are "overblown", Jefferies said in a note, adding that the company is expected to produce 12-15 million tablets this quarter.
Electronic parts suppliers Premier Farnell and Electrocomponents said huge demand for a British-designed credit card-sized computer, which aims to make programming easy for children, had helped them access new customers around the world.
The tablet market has grown exponentially in the past two years, since the first iPad was released. Back then, Apple didn’t have any competition but not before long, Apple’s rivals started showing off their creations in terms of tablets, as the market expanded bigger and bigger in demand.
“People argue about ‘are we in a post PC-world?’. Why are we arguing? Of course we are in a post-PC world,” said former top Microsoft Executive, Ray Ozzie. According to Ozzie, the world has move along, especially in the last couple of years, leaving behind the personal computers.
With the launch of the new iPad on March 7, many are left wondering whether they should invest in the new device or would it be better to stick with the now discounted iPad 2. The new iPad does bring some cool new features onto the table, but it also falls short on some expectations.
With an impressive Retina display and quad-core graphics based on an A5X processor, Apple believes its new iPad will soon be on the “must have” list of every passionate gamer. The new tablet has indeed caught the eye of the video game industry, and developers are already envisioning graphics intensive action games such as “Call of Duty” rather than light games such as “Farmville.”