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Motorola Xoom to challenge Apple iPad (video)

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Motorola this week unveiled its iPad rival, the Xoom, at the CES consumer electronics show in Las Vegas. The new tablet, which is the first to use the Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” operating system

Samsung Galaxy Tab: nice but overpriced

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The Samsung Galaxy Tab has been hailed as the only serious competitor to Apple’s popular iPad currently available in SA. And, although the iPad is still the tablet of choice for most people, Samsung has created a device that does

E-reader sales boom, despite the iPad

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Worldwide sales of network-connected e-readers are forecast to reach 6,6m units in 2010, up 79,8% from 2009 sales of 3,6m units, says research firm Gartner. That growth will continue into next

Apple iPad set for SA debut

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Apple’s iPad could go on sale in SA within a matter of weeks. Core Group, Apple’s sole local distributor, has confirmed it is in talks with the US company about bringing the tablet computer to the country.

Core Group executive director Rutger-Jan van Spaandonk says the company has held “lengthy discussions” with Apple and that Core will distribute both versions of the iPad – the cellular-ready product and the Wi-Fi-only configuration – exclusively to the SA market.

On the future of computing

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The elements of the future of the desktop are slowly falling into place. No one company has a comprehensive set of products and services that will deliver the future of computing, but the shape of things to come is getting clearer. The key driver behind it all is convergence — convergence onto a single productivity device, and convergence in the “cloud”. In hardware, desktops are losing market share to notebooks, which in turn are being

Europe gives Microsoft browser rivals a lift

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Web browsers Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome have all enjoyed a lift after Microsoft agreed to a European Union demand that the company give Windows users a choice of which browser they’d like installed as default. A settlement with the EU