A full suite of tablet-ready Office apps for Android will be a course correction.
We just had our first hands-on with the Microsoft Surface, the brand spanking new device which appears to be Microsoft's loud and clear answer to the Apple iPad, the MacBook Air, the menagerie of Android-powered tablets, the existing suite of Windows-powered tablets — basically, the entire landscape of today's most powerful and popular mobile computing devices.
Another driving force for the reduction in fragmentation could be the Nexus suite of phones and tablets.
The HTC ThunderBolt™, launched Thursday, March 17, is the first in a suite of consumer-oriented smartphones, tablets, hotspots and notebooks that will run on Verizon Wireless' 4G LTE network by the middle of this year.
The app is currently available for Google's suite of Android-powered smartphones and tablets and will come to Apple's iPhone and iPad in the coming weeks.
Developers will have a common model for building apps across the phone, tablet and TV, as well as a suite of new APIs for phone and tablet apps to interact with TV apps (think remote control type activities, gestures for games, etc).. Its platform will also support HTML5 with a set of design standards for TV Web 10-foot experiences.
The investment was led by Chris Dixon, and could help the company to expand its suite of creative tools for mobile and tablet users.
iZettle, the Swedish company that offers a card reader that works with your smartphone or tablet, plus a suite of financial services for the small businesses, is announcing that it has raised €60 million ($63 million) in new funding.
Windows' share of tablets is minuscule.
Available for a huge range of tablets.
