Peter Kafka in Media on March 19 at 9:00 pm PT
They watch a lot of movies and TV shows!
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on March 19 at 6:03 pm PT
Walt looks at two large tablets for under $300: the 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD and the Asus MeMo Pad Smart 10.1.
Ina Fried in Dive Into Media on February 12 at 8:55 am PT
Despite what you have read, probably online, print isn’t dead, insists the magazine exec, speaking at
D: Dive Into Media. Hearst’s digital subscriptions are also up to 900,000.
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Peter Kafka in Mobile on January 24 at 6:13 am PT
Amazon has bought
Ivona, which makes text-to-speech software, for an undisclosed amount. Amazon says it already uses Ivona to power several features on its Kindle Fire tablets.
Bonnie Cha in Product News on January 7 at 8:00 am PT
Need another tablet in your life? Acer has one that won’t break the bank, but U.S. buyers will have to wait to get their hands on it.
Ina Fried in Mobile on December 27, 2012 at 8:45 am PT
Apple tablets still account for 87 percent of all Web surfing traffic, according to Chitika.
Lauren Goode in Product News on December 27, 2012 at 7:00 am PT
A quarter of Americans age 16 and up now own tablets, according to Pew.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 20, 2012 at 7:00 am PT
It may be giving off those vibes, but that’s not what Google is trying to do at all, said Google’s head of Shopping, Sameer Samat.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on December 11, 2012 at 8:00 am PT
That’s 9 percentage points more than the Kindle Fire during the same period last year.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 6, 2012 at 4:16 pm PT
It may not sound significant, but over the past couple of weeks, Amazon’s Kindle devices have started appearing in search results on Google Shopping.