Toshiba’s Tablet Race sets off

Toshiba has launched the Toshiba Tablet Race competition in South Africa, which aims to build brand awareness by engaging with targeted audiences through social platforms. The race will offer more than R150 000 in prizes. The competition culminates in an online...

Info workers want tablet keyboards

New research from Forrester reveals that 62% of information workers who use or would like to use a tablet would prefer to use it with a keyboard. Despite this, the bulk of tablets used by information workers in the US and Europe offer distinctly touch-first...
Demand for small tablets doubles

Demand for small tablets doubles

Booming demand for low-priced 7,x-inch products helped shipments of panels used in media tablets to more than double in the first quarter, according to a new report entitled Tablet PC Touch Panel Shipment Database from information and analytics provider HIS. Global...

Tablet shipments slow in Q2

As expected, worldwide tablet shipment growth slowed in the second quarter of 2013 (2Q13), according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker. Worldwide tablet shipments finally experienced a sequential...

Tablets make up 31% of PC shipments

More than 34-million tablets were shipped in the second quarter of 2013 – a 43% year-on-year increase. Tablets now account for 31% of worldwide PC shipments, according to research by Canalys. But Apple’s performance faltered in the quarter, with the company’s...