For all three measures of value, app users were twice as likely as browser users to
say the tablet news experience is a better one.
Not exact matches
We have built the best
tablet at any price,» Bezos
said, according to ABC
News.
This poll was cited by the Islamic Republic
News Agency, to justify the rather different claim that «A majority of Christians around the world [the
Tablet's email poll to its newsletter subscribers could hardly be
said to so representative] believe the Pope should not have quoted derogatory statements against Islam».
«Our main finding was that following daytime bright light exposure, evening use of a self - luminous
tablet for two hours did not affect sleep in young healthy students,» study first author Frida Rangtell
said in a university
news release.
However, in what should be even more exciting
news for current PlayBook owners, the company is
said to be in the advanced stages of launching an update for the
tablet.
They are also more active
tablet users in general; they are heavier
news consumers, more likely to read in - depth articles and more satisfied with their
tablet news experience - even to the point of
saying the content they get here is worth more than content on other platforms.
Tablets are, by design, perfect content - consumption devices (that's what 94 % of current
tablet owners do,
said the OPA), and they're also great for web browsing, e-mail and getting your daily
news fix.
«
Tablets are fundamentally redefining how people consume
news and information, with the format more conducive to reading longer form content than PCs or smartphones,»
said Mark Donovan, comScore SVP of Mobile, in the press release.
«In the last 12 months we have seen a threefold increase in how long Netflix members are watching on their
tablets,» Neil Hunt, chief product officer at Netflix,
said in the
news release.
Ad revenue depends on the amount of time spent reading the
news, he
said, and therefore the proliferation of
tablets will help the online newspaper industry to gain a new foothold for the first time in 40 years.
Although we already knew that Asus planned an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean updated for some of its
tablet devices, it now seems we won't have to wait much longer for them to hit.Taking to its Facebook page to announce the
news, Asus
says the update for the... Read more
Also, he
said that there is a good
news for the current users of Transformer
tablet as the
tablet might get an Ice Cream Sandwich update in the fourth quarter of the year.
Noting «a spike in the ownership of both
tablet computers and ebook reading devices» in the holidays, Pew's people get at a broader implication of just how fast digital - content consumption is growing by combining survey respondents who
say they read books,
news, and / or periodicals in digital formats of one - kind or another:
The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and USA Today are among
news organizations planning to offer
news applications for Samsung's Galaxy
tablet computer, an iPad rival, the Journal
said Friday.
As per the latest
Tablet PC news, HP has filed a trademark for the name «Palmpad, «fueling rumors of the upcoming tablet PC that HP said it is making based on the WebOS mobile operating system after acquiring the Palm company may be so
Tablet PC
news, HP has filed a trademark for the name «Palmpad, «fueling rumors of the upcoming
tablet PC that HP said it is making based on the WebOS mobile operating system after acquiring the Palm company may be so
tablet PC that HP
said it is making based on the WebOS mobile operating system after acquiring the Palm company may be so named.
With that the rumor mills suddenly became abuzz with
news that the WebOS that has been specifically designed for use in mobile devices may be a better choice than the Windows 7 OS which is
said to be too demanding on battery and the processor and is one that has not be designed for
tablet or other mobile devices specifically.
«
Tablets are fundamentally redefining how people consume
news and information, with the format more conducive to reading longer form content than PCs or smartphones,»
said Mark Donovan, comScore SVP of Mobile.
News remains an important part of what people do on their mobile devices - 64 % of tablet owners and 62 % of smartphone owners say they use the devices for news at least weekly, tying news statistically with other popular activities such email and playing games on tablets and behind only email on smartphones (not including talking on the pho
News remains an important part of what people do on their mobile devices - 64 % of
tablet owners and 62 % of smartphone owners
say they use the devices for
news at least weekly, tying news statistically with other popular activities such email and playing games on tablets and behind only email on smartphones (not including talking on the pho
news at least weekly, tying
news statistically with other popular activities such email and playing games on tablets and behind only email on smartphones (not including talking on the pho
news statistically with other popular activities such email and playing games on
tablets and behind only email on smartphones (not including talking on the phone).
85 % of computer users
say they access
news on that device each week, compared with 63 % of smartphone users, 60 % of
tablet users, 54 % of smart TV users, and only 17 % for the e-reader.
What the survey has also revealed is that users are more inclined to read free content available on the net as just 14 percent of
tablet users have
said they have actually paid for availing
news content on their
tablet while 23 percent
say they have subscribed to a newspaper or magazine that also include access to their digital versions.
Almost 22 % of adults own a
tablet computer, double the 11 % who had a
tablet a year ago, and 64 % of
tablet owners
say they use the device to access
news at least weekly, according to a new study from Project for Excellence in Journalism and The Economist Group.
Buried in the dismal
news regarding BlackBerry's sharp decline in earnings when revenue recovery was expected last week, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins also confirmed during the earnings call on Friday that the company's PlayBook
tablet would not in fact be updated to BB10 proper as initially promised and declined to specify why the company changed its plans, but the specifications for the Z10 and Q10 may
say more than expected.
RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie
says an official native email app is coming soon, but this
news could not dissuade the dozens of negative reviews for the
tablet.
Tablet computers such as Apple's iPad may allow the
news industry a «re-set» and to start charging for content after years of giving it away for free, a senior News Corp. executive said Fri
news industry a «re-set» and to start charging for content after years of giving it away for free, a senior
News Corp. executive said Fri
News Corp. executive
said Friday.
In other
tablet computer
news today, Acer
says it will finally launch its Honeycomb powered Android
tablet, the Iconia Tab A500 in late April.
About half of the
tablet news users that Pew surveyed
say using their
tablets actually makes then spend more time consuming
news, and around one - third also now get
news from new sources they previously didn't use.
Dell
said it would give more
news on the other
tablets and laptops - such as the Venue 11 Pro, XPS 11 and refreshed XPS 13 - in November, so stay tuned.
A plurality of
tablet news users (40 %)
say they get their
news mainly through a web browser.
A third (33 %) of
tablet news users
say they are turning to new sources for
news on their
tablet, sources they had not turned to on other platforms such as television or their desktop computer.
And, more than four in ten (42 %)
say they regularly read in - depth
news articles and analysis on their
tablet.
The vast majority of
tablet news users, 84 %,
say the fact that the app came from a
news organization they liked is a major factor in their decision to download it.
Korea's ET
News says Samsung has been checking its supply chain companies recently to ensure that they have enough capacity to provide parts for as many as 100 million
tablets in 2014.
The
news comes from an interview with the Wall Street Journal, as a Dell executive
said the company is also working on a 10 - inch
tablet.
Similarly, 31 %
said they enjoy the
news more on the
tablet than from other platforms, while just 8 % enjoy it less.
NBC
news reports further that «Of those who have read an e-book in the past 12 months, 42 percent
said they read it on a computer; 41 percent on an e-book reader; 29 percent on a cell - phone and 23 percent on a
tablet.»
The main survey group of
tablet news users (the group of 894) was asked to
say in their own words what they felt the
tablet is especially good at and bad at when it comes to delivering
news.
For both, most
tablet news users
said there wasn't much difference (60 %
said the enjoyment was about the same and 57 %
said that of the ease of learning).
The web - based survey of 300
tablet news users revealed an even split in how people just checked headlines: 31 % who had used their
tablet to check headlines in the last week
said they mainly used apps, 39 % mainly a browser, and 30 % used both equally.
It makes you wonder why they decided to do that since those users obviously use their
tablets for work, and if anything goes wrong with the update, they'll be more affected than
say a regular consumer who only uses the
tablet to surf the web, play games and read the
news?
Hours after
news broke that Hewlett - Packard was considering a spin - off of its PC business, the company also
said that it will discontinue support for webOS devices, including the TouchPad
tablet.
A similar majority, 57 %,
say they substitute the
tablet for television
news.
Fully 79 % of
tablet news users
say they now get
news on their
tablet that they used to get online from their laptop or desktop computer.
Instead, the vast majority, 78 %,
said the
tablet had not changed the value of the
news - that the
news was worth «about the same amount.»
A third, 33 %,
say they have found new sources to turn to for
news since they got their
tablet.
Only about half as many as
said the
news was more enjoyable or easier to learn from on the
tablet also
said news on these devices was worth more to them (16 % of all
tablet news users).
Fully 42 % of
tablet users
say they regularly read in - depth
news articles and about as many, another 40 %, do this sometimes.
Among the select follow - up panel (n = 300
tablet news users), about half (52 %)
said they keep up with their favorite sources more now that they own a
tablet.
When asked specifically about paying for
news on their
tablets, 14 %
said they have done so, while 85 % have not.
When a select group of
tablet news users was asked about their
tablet activity in the last seven days, the numbers grew somewhat: 39 % reported sharing headlines through social networking sites, and 38 %
said they shared longer articles.
According to the Taiwan Economic
News Inventec Corp., the subcontractor for the
tablet, are
said to have placed a healthy order for