TripIt: iPad beats Kindle for business travelers

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The competition between the iPad and Kindle among business travelers is fairly tight, but the iPad is expected to pull ahead, according to a survey conducted by TripIt.

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The future of travel guidebooks on tablet devices

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Whether you are in love with them or utterly indifferent, tablet devices such as the iPad are set to be a significant part of the hardware armoury for consumers in the coming years.

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iPad almost non-existent in the lives of travellers

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Depressing news for those throwing resources at creating travel applications for iPads et al, with research revealing a paltry 7% of US travellers are accessing the web via a tablet device.

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Anyone remember the Kindle? Amazon and Michelin do

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With all of the hype about the iPad, does anyone remember the Kindle? Amazon attempted to break through the iPad media frenzy today with an announcement that Michelin Driving Tours are now exclusively available for six months in the Kindle Store at $3.99 per download.

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Google exec on Buzz, Super Bowl ad, behavioral advertising, tablets

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Google’s Dennis Woodside says the company rolled out Google Buzz too abruptly and likely won’t introduce other new products in a similar manner.

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iSlate, Kindle and travel – a marriage made in heaven or heading for a quickie divorce?

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This week will probably see the launch of Apple’s Tablet – the iSlate (I had backed iTablet as the name but apparently there were copyright issues). So iSlate it is.



The unveiling of the product will give a big boost to the eReader category and resulting adoption.



Lazard Freres analyst Colin Sebastian has done an excellent research piece on the Tablet/Slate/eReader Market in his regular subscriber bulletin.

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