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The International Data Corporation (IDC) has released a report stating that new products and lower price points will increase tablet shipments—higher than previously expected.  Moreover, the release of Windows 8/RT tablets won’t necessarily take shares away from iOS or Android, but rather it will help the overall tablet market grow.

When Microsoft announced its tablet strategy with the Windows RT, many thought that Microsoft will change its pricing model for OEMs too, signaling a shift in strategy. Reality is however, vastly different with Microsoft requesting as much money as OEM version of the Windows 7 Home Premium.

Rumors of a 7- to 7.85-inch iPad have been swirling around for a long while now. We’ve seen reports get killed moments after they initially break, only to be sneakily resurrected weeks or months later. The rumor simply won’t die. The problem, however, is that this one in particular is a tough nut to crack. When you take all the evidence both for and against a little iPad, you’re still left with no real conclusion. So conclusion aside, here are some of the reasons Apple may, or may not, introduce the little iPad...

With so many iPhone and iPad apps for kids out there, we probably do not have the definite answer to this question. It depends on several factors that come into the play – such as the age of your kids, how they act with the iPhone and of course what the desires of parents and kids are.

Flurry recently quantified China’s meteoric adoption of iOS and Android applications. While China ranked 10th in application sessions at the beginning of 2011, it finished the year in 2nd place, only behind the United States.

The JoanGanzCooney Center’s experts studied the changes in the market of educational apps within 2 years. The first iLearn research was done in 2009 and the second one in 2011.

According to Yandex study published at the end of January, 2012, there were more than 1 million iPad owners among web users. More than 700,000 of them are in Russia.

Data from a new study has shown that 26 percent of European doctors own an iPad and spend over a quarter of their professional time using the device, with another 40 percent say they plan to buy an iPad within six months.

The rise of gadgets is ushering in a new generation of kids who are growing up digital. 

Google believes that mobile technologies and the rise of the tablet is changing the way we work.

In 2011 the consumers showed more interest in smartphones than in computers.

More than 350, 000 downloads of Apple’s e-textbooks were downloaded from the company’s iBook store within the first three days of availability

On 23 d January an interactive app for children “Kesha’s Adventures” is available on the App Store.