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Can Apple corner the display market?

According to iSuppli, that's the purpose of a $3.9 billion investment revealed last month

When COO Tim Cook mentioned during Apple's (AAPL) Q1 2011 earning call that the company was going to spend $3.9 billion over the next two years for unspecified component pre-payments, most analysts assumed he was talking about touch screen displays for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

On Tuesday iSuppli -- now part of IHS -- issued a MORE

Android grabs 22% tablet share - not!

Reports that Apple's iPad lost a big chunk of its market turn out to be premature

[CORRECTION: Samsung's Lee Young-hee was misquoted in the transcript cited by the Wall Street Journal. A tape recording of her remarks show that she was describing the Galaxy Tab's sell out as "quite smooth" not "quite small."]

Judging from Monday morning's tech headlines, Apple's (AAPL) iPad must have got clobbered last quarter.

Analyst: Google has a solid CES

Product announcements in both phones and tablets (and even TVs) were overwhelmingly Android.

In a note entitled "Tablets everywhere at CES," Bank of America/Merrill Lynch analyst Justin Post remarks that CES was certainly a big venue for new Google (GOOG) Android-powered products.

The Android camp has demonstrated this CES that it could present to the market attractive solutions (both hardware and software) that match if notsurpass the product experience offered by Apple, MORE

Galaxy Tab drops to $500 on Verizon with $60 in movie rentals

New Year, new price.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab is seeing its first price drop next week ifVerizon (VZ) promotional materials found by Droid Life are authentic.  I've been expecting drops since the Tab was launched and frankly surprised it has taken so long.

Samsung says it has shipped around 1.5 million Tabs since launch about three months ago which was up 50% on its original estimates.

I'd expect other US carriers to follow suit MORE

65 million iPads in 2011? Not likely.

An estimate based on chatter among touch-panel suppliers seems way out of line

Several sites early Wednesday picked up a report from Taiwan-based DigiTimes that suppliers of 9.7 inch iPad touch-panel screens had received orders from Apple (AAPL) totaling 65 million units for 2011 -- 35 million for LG Display and 15 million each for Samsung and Chimei Innolux.

DigiTimes, which has good sources in Apple's Asian supply chain, regularly publishes credible MORE

Nexus S goes on sale at Best Buy for $199 on contract

The new Google phone is now available to the general public.  Will it fare better than its predecessor, the Nexus One?

Select Best Buy stores (BBY) are opening their doors this morning ready to sell the Samsung Nexus S.  It is the first time U.S. shoppers will be able to see an official Google (GOOG) phone on display first hand.  The previous Google phone, the Nexus One, was only available for MORE

ChangeWave: Business [hearts] iPad

Among enterprises planning to purchase tablets next quarter, 78% intend to buy iPads

There's not much good news for Apple's (AAPL) competitors in the results of a ChangeWave survey released Wednesday.

In November, ChangeWave researchers asked 1,641 corporate IT buyers about their current and future tablet purchase policies. Although only 7% of the respondents currently provide employees with tablets -- up from 1% in an August survey -- 14% plan to do MORE

Why the Nexus S matters

The hardware has only minor upgrades from phones released six months ago. The key is the untouched software.

There are two major hardware advancements in the new Samsung Nexus S Google Phone.  One is the Near Field Communication chip inside, which, at the moment, allows you to scan tags that are around town to get more information about the venue.  My local UPS store has one and I scanned the tag there.  I MORE

Today in Tech: Google Chrome OS, 4chan attacks, and Salesforce

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