Editor’s note: This article was first published in February 2011. It is a news roundup in which Steve Jobs is on medical leave (he died in October 2011), the iPad leads the market, and the Galaxy Tab 10.1, NEC’s LifeTouch Note launch on 10 March and the Nokia-Microsoft alliance were current news.
To reassure future investors and shareholders, Steve Jobs has announced that, although he is absent because of his illness, he will keep making the decisions at the company, especially now that Apple is in one of the most important battles for control of services, forging new strategic business alliances and new projects, to the point that some say it wants to monopolize the market. Here’s the best from around the web.
Apple seeks a monopoly: Apple could buy Samsung Components for $7.8 billion. Apple is the undisputed leader in tablet and mobile phone sales, but it is starting to run into a strong rival, Samsung, which has unveiled its new tablet, the Galaxy Tab 10.1. The full story is on the Economista Impaciente blog.
Meanwhile, HTC, Toshiba, RIM, Samsung and HP, among others, are some of the brands hoping to dethrone Apple’s iPad with their own tablets. Will they succeed? Terra’s technology section explains the features and specs of the tablets of the future.
Japanese company NEC announced today that it will sell a tablet with a keyboard, based on Google’s Android operating system, to compete in a lucrative market led by Apple’s iPad.
NEC’s tablet, which goes on sale in Japan on 10 March under the name “LifeTouch Note“, will weigh around 700 grams and will have a physical keyboard. ABC has the full story: NEC joins the tablet business.
Nokia and Microsoft are joining forces to take on Google and Apple in one of the biggest strategic alliances in tech history. At Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress, Nokia is trying to convince investors that it has found the right strategy to catch up with Google and Apple in the smartphone market. Europa Press
While Apple’s shares have stabilized, Microsoft’s strategy and its alliance with Nokia haven’t gone down well with investors so far, as Microsoft’s shares have fallen 20%. Google has issued a statement saying that Nokia was wrong to choose Microsoft and that it remains open to renegotiating terms so that the Android operating system can be built into Nokia’s handsets.
As we can see, a tech war has begun, and all eyes are on Apple as the leader of this lucrative market.
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