Following the internet buzz that Apple are planning a new 7.85″ iPad, rumours are getting stronger that Amazon will increase the screen on the Kindle Fire to 10.1 inches. Maybe they read my post on Size Does Matter. According to Tablet News the new Kindle Fire, that was rumoured to be 8.2″, will in fact be even larger than the [...]

Want to have all your news headlines, friend updates, birthday reminders printed out for you each morning on a nice tactile piece of paper? No, me neither, but BERG is soon to launch a little wifi printer that can do this for you. The imaginatively named “Little Printer” connects to your wifi router and downloads the feed information that you [...]

In recent months there has been a lot of talk about “Android Market Fragmentation” causing quite a few problems for developers to get consistency across the various Android powered devices. But just how much fragmentation is there? Below is a great chart by OpenSignalMaps that highlights the scale of the fragmentation. Nearly 4,000 sperate devices. Now this is the high [...]

Does size really matter when it comes to the screen size on a tablet and the amount of pageviews a user makes in a session? Well, according to the latest report from ComScore’s Device Essentials it does. ComScores research suggests that the larger the screen the more pageviews the user is willing to make. As much as 58% more pageviews [...]

Did you know that 41% of people who own a tablet device have purchased a magazine? No, neither did I. Although it would be interesting to know where the stats come from. Here is a great video with many more facts about tablet editions of magazines. Although obviously US centric the facts are still relevent to the Uk.    

The latest research by the ABI indicates that magazines and newspapers publishers will be one of the sectors to benefit most from the increasing media tablet trends over the next five years. According to the report (which I found via  Paul Bibba on Teleread ) this trend is not only due to existing consumers starting to migrate to tablet devices [...]

According to the latest Velti Report content providers using Apple IOS can command nearly double the advertsing eCPM rates over Android. The disparity in rates is mainly advertiser driven and attributed to brands wanting to reach iPad users over Android users. In the mobile digital advertising market the two main platforms (IOS and Android) are pretty well matched with Apple [...]

The Independent newspapers website is a surprise top performer in March according to the latest ABC figures. Monthly unique users increased by 13% beating all other newspaper sites and quite a feat considering that the site went through a major redesign back in October. With 14.5 million unique monthly users the Independent is still far behind Mail Online who have [...]

Some interesting stats from the US this week as the Kindle Fire sales dominate the Android tablet market. The Kindle Fire now accounts for over 54% of all android tablet devices and has doubled it’s market share in just two months, crushing the ‘pre-Fire’ market leader the Samsung Galaxy Tab. The Samsung’s market share fell from 24% down to 15%. [...]