Day: 23 September 2010

Nearly one in 10 Americans own an e-reader

Eight percent of Americans use an e-reader, according to new data from Harris Interactive (http://www.harrisinteractive.com/vault/HI-Harris-Poll-eReaders-2010-09-22.pdf). On top of that, the research firm’s survey found that 12% of respondents who do not currently own an e-reader are likely to purchase one within the next six months. The survey also found that 53% of people with e-readers…

Michael Dell whips out his seven-incher

Dell CEO Michael Dell has previewed a second Android  tablet to complement its five-inch Streak device. Michael Dell was delivering the Wednesday Keynote “Innovation in the Enterprise” at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, when he started to describe the Dell Streak he then said “Of course, it’s nice to have a larger screen,”…

iPad owners browse the web, read email and read the papers

Contrary to popular opinion the main use for the iPad is not as an expensive drinks tray, or as an upmarket etch-a-sketch for over paid executives but it’s as an electronic version of the daily paper, and owners of the iPads are more likely to be male and in your late twenties or early thirties,…

INQ building a phone for Facebook?

Politicians have a great way of lying, it’s where they interpret a question absolutely truthfully, but if you’d asked them a slightly differently phrased question they would have have to have fessed up. Eg Did you sleep with a call girl? No because technically although we were in bed together all night neither of us…

To Generation Y digital and mobile is the norm

A survey of US technology users and their attitudes to technology has revealed that smartphones and phones are increasingly playing a larger part in their daily lives  – no matter what their age. The Forrester study “The State Of Consumers And Technology Benchmark 2010” report is a graphical analysis of Forrester’s North American Consumer Technographics…

New fast Android typing app SwiftKey launches today

Get ready to start typing at lightning speed. SwiftKey by business startup TouchType has been in beta for the last three months and as of today – 23 September –  it’s gone live on the android market – download here. By using special Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques SwiftKey claims to be able to predict your…