One in Three Internet Users to Use Tablet PC by 2014

According to eMarketer, by the end of this year, it is estimated that 33.7 million people in the United States will be using a tablet pc thanks to the main leader of pc tablet, the Apple iPad.

The growth of tablet users in the last year has been up by over 158% since December of last year, the first iPad was released.

By the end of 2014, it is predicted almost 90 million people will be using a tablet pc. They believe that tablets will eventually be a personal necessity like smart phone these days.

Apple is currently keeping the majority share of the tablet market with HP TouchPad and Kindle ebook reader way behind, eMarketer predicts that the iPad will have a 68% market share.

Women, who happens to have less than 50% of the tablet pc are expected to pull even with men. By the end of 2011, youths under the age of 18 will own 13% of the pc tablet. That will increase to 15.9% in 3 years.

NVIDIA Releases Quad-Core Tegra 3 Processor

NVIDIA have introduced it's long-awaited Tegra 3 processor (Formerly Known As Kal-El), which is the first quad-core mobile processor ever released.

Mainly designed for the pc tablet , latest cell phones and smart phones , the Tegra 3 will purportedly best the processing performance of the older Tegra 2 chip by a factor of five (and graphics by a factor of three, thanks to it's 12-core NVIDIA GeForce GPU with stereo 3D support), all while reducing power consumption by 61%.

Although Tegra 3 is a quad-core chip, there is also a fifth "companion core", which is designed to take over for less-intensive computing tasks, such as listening to audio or web browsing. The technology behind the fifth core is NVIDIA’s Variable Symmetric Multiprocessing (vSMP).

With the new Tegra 3, users can expect everything on their mobile devices to perform faster and better, including web browsing experience, gaming, streaming video, video edditing and running apps.

Top Countries With The Fastest Internet Speed

Internet data collection company, Akamai have released their quarterly "State Of The Internet" report, which examines the world's fastest and slowest Internet connections by country, attack traffic, average & maximum connection speeds, Internet penetration and broadband adoption, and mobile usage, as well as trends seen in this data over time.

25,000 requests from unique IP addresses must be acheived in order to avoid making unfair comparisons between countries with large disparities in population or infrastructure.

From the report, global Internet speed from broadband providers are improving. Between the first and second quarters of 2011, average global connection speed increased 21 percent and is now 2.6 Megabits per second. By comparison, Internet speeds in the United States (12th fastest) look fairly speedy at an average of 5.8 Mbps compared to an average connection speed for higher ranked countries of 13.8 Mbps, more than twice as fast as the U.S.

	Top 9 Countries With The Fastest Internet Connection Speed
Rank	Country	Average Speed (Mbps)	% Increase
1	South Korea	13.8	-4.2
2	Hong Kong	10.3	12
3	Japan	8.9	10
4	Netherlands	8.5	14
5	Latvia	8.2	29
6	Czech Republic	7.4	13
7	Switzerland	7.3	17
8	Romania	6.8	2.3
9	Belgium	6.4	4.8

Microsoft completes Skype acquisition

It's official, the internet video chat service Skype is now officially a part of Microsoft.

The two companies joined forces this week after Microsoft Corp. completed its $8.5 billion purchase of Skype. The closing came five months after Microsoft announced the acquisition.

Skype features includes video calling, video conferencing, voice over ip calling and also conference calling.

In a press release sent out Friday morning, Microsoft confirmed that the deal, and revealed that Skype CEO Tony Bates will now report directly to Steve Ballmer in his new role as president of the new Skype Division of Microsoft. Skype employees will continue to be located around the world as before.

Microsoft is counting on Skype to help it catch up in some the hottest markets in technology and media. Those areas include online socializing, mobile phones and digital video.

Skype's roughly 170 million users made 207 billion minutes of voice and video calls last year — almost 400,000 years' worth.

iPhone 4S vs. Galaxy S II and Bionic Smartphones

The newly released Apple iPhone 4s will be made available to U.S.A, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, France, Germany and Japan initially and will be launched to 22 more countries by October 28th, and to 70 more countries by the end of 2011.


There will be Black and White versions as usual, while the price of iPhone 4S will be as follows:

16GB variant for $199, 32GB for $299 and the 64GB for $399 in US with contract,available to Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint.

iPhone 4s Specs

• OS: iOS 5.
• Processor: Dual core A5 Chip-2X processing and 7X Graphics.
• Display: 3.5″ Ratina display 960X640.
• Camera: 8 MP camera with CMOS sensor and 1080p recording with video stabilization.
• Both CDMA/GSM support is available and HSDPA support upto 14.2 MBPS.
• Up to 8 hours on talk time on 3G and up to 14 hours on 2G (GSM)
• Standby time: Up to 200 hours
• Internet usage: Up to 6 hours on 3G, up to 9 hours on Wi-Fi
• Video playback: Up to 10 hours
• Audio playback: Up to 40 hours

Special Features: SIRI voice assistant, AirPlay Mirroring to Apple TV support at 720p, iCloud storage.

Here's a comparision to it's mightiest competitors on the Android platform.

iPhone 4S

Samsung Galaxy S II

Motorola Droid Bionic

Platform	iOS 5	Android 2.3.4 with TouchWiz 4.0	Android 2.3.4 with custom skin
Processor	Dual-core Apple A5 (likely 1GHz)	1.2GHz dual-core Samsung Exynos or 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S3	1GHz dual-core TI OMAP 4430
RAM	Unknown (likely 512MB)	1GB	1GB
Storage	16GB / 32GB / 64GB internal	16GB / 32GB internal, microSDHC expansion	16GB internal, microSDHC expansion
Cellular	Quadband GSM, quadband HSPA+ 14.4, CDMA / EDVO Rev. A	Quadband GSM, quadband HSPA+ 21 / 42 or CDMA / EV-DO Rev. A, WiMax	CDMA / EV-DO Rev. A, LTE
WiFi	802.11b/g/n	802.11a/b/g/n	802.11b/g/n
Display size	3.5 inches	4.3 or 4.5 inches	4.3 inches
Display resolution	960 x 640	800 x 480	960 x 540
Display technology	IPS LCD	Super AMOLED Plus	Pentile-matrix TFT LCD
Integrated TV-out	Dock connector	MHL	HDMI
Primary camera	8 megapixel AF, f2.4 lens, BSI sensor, LED flash	8 megapixel AF, LED flash	8 megapixel AF, LED flash
Secondary camera	VGA	2 megapixel	VGA
Video recording	1080p at 30fps	1080p at 30fps	1080p at 30fps
Video calling	Yes	Yes	Yes
Location / orientation sensors	AGPS, compass, accelerometer, gyroscope	AGPS, compass, accelerometer, gyroscope	AGPS, compass, accelerometer, gyroscope
SIM standard	Micro SIM	SIM (on GSM variants)	SIM (for LTE)
Quoted max talk time	8 hours on 3G, 14 hours on 2G	7-8.7 hours on 3G	10.8 hours on 3G
Quoted max media playback time	40 hours audio, 10 hours video	5 hours video	6.5 hours video
Battery	Unknown capacity (likely 1420+mAh), embedded	1650-1850mAh, removable	1735mAh, removable
Weight	140 grams / 4.9 oz.	116 grams / 4.1 oz. to 130 grams / 4.6 oz.	158 grams / 5.6 oz.
Dimensions	115.2 x 58.6 x 9.3mm	125.3 mm x 66.1 mm x 8.49 mm to 129.8 x 69.6 x 9.65mm	127.5 x 66.9 x 10.99mm