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New Survey Reveals Tablets Changing User Preferences for Reading

July 4, 2012 By 901am

A recently released survey shows that tablets are now being used in favor of netbooks as mobile PCs.

A survey recently conducted by Gartner showed that tablets are becoming the choice of people who often read newspapers, books and magazines. The survey revealed that more than 50 percent of its respondents said they prefer to read on their tablets instead of traditional mediums. The exact nature of what tablets they use or prefer to use were not revealed. But the results show that people may not have completely shifted to tablets, but that undeniable shift is happening, with a “less paper” environment now being achieved, still a long ways away from the “paperless” utopia that some people have been predicting for decades now. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Tablets Tagged With: reading, survey, tablet

Instagram Tops App Store, Gets 1M Downloads in Android

April 12, 2012 By 901am

Instagram got a lot of flak from iOS users when two events happened within the space of days – Instagram’s release of an Android version of the popular photo shooting app and the announcement that Facebook as bought the company behind Instagram for a cool $1 billion. The negative reactions from long-time Instagram users got so intense that many of them said they will abandon the app and delete their Instagram account. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Acquisition, Android, Apple, Apps Tagged With: Android, instagram, iOS, reading

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