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The Death of the PC Model and a Tablet That Could Crush the iPad
I spent last week at the annual Intel analyst conference and was impressed by what I saw, but I started connecting the dots between what Apple is doing with the iPad, Google is doing with the Nexus one, Microsoft is doing with the Zune and Xbox, and Intel is doing with its Atom/Moblin efforts, and I had an epiphany.

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Report: iPad to Boost Tablet Sales to 50 Million
San Francisco (dpa) – The launch of Apple’s iPad will finally ignite demand for tablet computers, and manufacturers will sell 50 million of the devices annually by 2014, according to a market research report issued Monday.

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Maybe We Should Call it the Loch Ness Tablet?
I know that rolling your eyes at all the hype around Apple’s latest hotly anticipated device has now become nearly a cliché in itself, and the example I’m about to flag is surely not the most egregious thing out there.

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Apple vs. Adobe vs. Content Creators – Lack of Flash support on the iPad could undermine publisher’s tablet thoughts
Publishers may have gotten ahead of themselves when they rolled out pre-iPad tablet demos. At least one relied on Adobe Air, which the iPad won’t support. And the ongoing spat between Apple and Adobe could soon influence publishers’ choice making.

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Apple iPad to ignite tablet computer market: ABI
by Staff Writers San Francisco (AFP) Feb 2, 2010 ABI Research said Tuesday that Apple’s iPad highlights the “real start” of a tablet computer market that should grow more than tenfold to reach about 57 million devices sold annually by 2015.

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