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US judge keeps Samsung Galaxy Tab ban in place

In the patent war between two of the largest consumer electronics companies in the world, Samsung and Apple, Apple won another victory yesterday as US judge Lucy Koh kept in place a ban on sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet.

What's more: last Friday, Judge Koh placed a ban on sales of one of Samsung's phones, the Galaxy Nexus.

by Patricio Robles 03 July 2012 17:12pm 1 comment

How tablet shoppers are changing e-commerce [infographic]

Traffic to e-commerce sites from tablets (mainly iPads) has increased by 348% year on year, and is set to rise further, with sales of tablets predicted to reach 119m in 2012.

This infographic from Monetate looks at some of they key stats, and the importance of what it calls 'couch commerce'

by Graham Charlton 03 July 2012 09:25am 5 comments

Tablet stats: iPad still rules, but the competition is catching up

8% of the UK population now owns a tablet, which equates to roughly 3m users, according to stats from YouGov.

The stats show Apple's dominance of this market with the iPad, but also that other tablets are beginning to catch up. The iPad's market share has slipped from 75% to 71% between Q1 and Q2 2012.

by Graham Charlton 02 July 2012 11:52am 5 comments

Google unveils the Nexus 7 tablet

The popularity of Google's Android may ensure that Google will play a prominent role in the smartphone market for years to come, but its future in the tablet space is anything but guaranteed.

Apple's iPad is the tablet standard, and lower-end competitors like the Kindle Fire and NOOK Tablet use forked versions of Android that Google can't control or monetize. For a variety of reasons, Google hasn't thus far been able to rely on third party manufacturers to build a killer Android tablet.

And it's unlikely to get easier for the search giant any time soon.

by Patricio Robles 27 June 2012 19:31pm 2 comments

With Surface, Microsoft charts a new path

Yesterday, Microsoft made what may be remembered as one of its most important announcements ever: it announced that it is designing, manufacturing and selling its own tablets.

The tablets, which the Redmond software giant has dubbed Surface, will sport two flavors of Windows 8: Windows 8 RT and Windows 8 Pro.

by Patricio Robles 19 June 2012 16:34pm 0 comments

Tablets now 20% of mobile ad impressions: report

The future may be mobile, but capitalizing on the mobile opportunity hasn't exactly been easy for many publishers and advertisers.

As companies like Facebook and Twitter are learning the hard way, delivering effective ads to consumers through mobile devices can be tough.

Despite the fact that mobile devices are always on and always connected, they have natural limitations which restrict where and how many ads can be served.

by Patricio Robles 24 May 2012 19:17pm 2 comments

Ballmer's bold prediction: up to 500m Windows 8 users in 2013

According to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Windows 8 represents a "rebirth" of Windows and it's the "deepest, broadest and most impactful" version of the operating system his company has yet created.

Those are strong words from a man whose legacy may hinge upon Windows 8's success. But Ballmer apparently isn't afraid to use them, or to offer up bold predictions about how fast Windows 8 will find its way onto consumer devices.

by Patricio Robles 23 May 2012 19:15pm 1 comment

WSJ reveals readership trends across different devices

The Wall Street Journal revealed some interesting data about readership trends by device and time today at the Business Development Institute's social and mobile conference for Financial Services.

While a live Twitter feed streamed the thoughts of the audience, Michal Shapira, Associate Vice President of Digital Marketing noted that the organization is not just a traditional media company anymore and claimed that, compared to a jury of its peers, the company is number one in terms of mobile access.

Supplementing print readership, the WSJ's desktop, tablet, and phone applications extend the company's product consumption levels far beyond its traditional reading hours.

by Sam Dwyer 17 May 2012 17:56pm 0 comments

One tablet generates as many website visits as four smartphones

One tablet generates as many website visits as four smartphones, according to data from Adobe's Digital Index Report.

By the end of Q1 2012 smartphones accounted for 6.1% of site visits compared to 4.3% on tablet.

However, smartphones only maintain a greater share of website visits due to the lower penetration rate of tablets.

The report highlights that from 2010 through to 2011 there were 5.3 times more smartphones shipped across North America and Western Europe compared to tablets.

by David Moth 15 May 2012 15:18pm 9 comments

10 interesting digital stats we've seen this week

Here's a round up of digital marketing stats we've seen this week.

Topics covered include tablet users' spending habits, newspaper pages on Google+, Facebook ad CTR, participation inequality, and consumer attitudes to online ads...

by Graham Charlton 11 May 2012 15:09pm 2 comments