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MEA Tablet Market Surpasses Portable PC Market for First Time - IDC
Windows 8 Finally Edges Past Apple's OS X With 7.4% Market Share vs. 7.3%
Carl Icahn To Serve As Matchmaker For Apple Acquisition Of Nuance?
A Beginner's Guide to OS X File Sharing
How to Build Your Own Colorful Laptop Stand
How To Control Your PC From Your iPad For Free
New "Take Control of Your Online Privacy" eBook Addresses Internet Privacy Concerns
MEA Tablet Market Surpasses Portable PC Market for First Time - IDC
The size of the Middle East and Africa (MEA) tablet market exceeded the region's portable PC market for the first time in the second quarter of 2013, according to the latest results from International Data Corporation (IDC). with the company's research metrics showing that tablet shipments for the quarter were up an incredible 208% year on year, reaching a total of 2.79 million units.
The Android operating system was the major contributor to this massive growth, with 2 million such devices shipped during Q2 2013, while uptake of Windows OS was rather slow during the quarter, primarily as a result of vendors shipping more Android-based tablets in order to gain market share in the region.
"The launch of the iPad mini could not prevent iOS from rapidly losing share to Android devices, with cost being a key factor in consumers' choice of tablets," says Victoria Mendes, a research analyst for personal computing, systems, and infrastructure solutions at IDC Middle East, Africa, and Turkey. "However, Apple's new product launch, which is expected before the end of this year, will defnitely spur some growth for the vendor in the region."
While Apple's shipment total of 682,000 units for the quarter was lower than expected, the iPad maker maintained its top position in the rankings, although followed very closely by Samsung, which is now nipping at its heels, shipping a total of 627,000 units. Lenovo, though far behind, entered the market in third place, shipping 140,000 units. Lenovo, together with other Far-Eastern vendors like Asus, which took fourth place with a total of 107,000 units, and Acer, which grabbed the remaining top-five slot, seem geared up to increase their market shares given the extremely competitive prices they have entered the market with.
"The growing cannibalization of PC demand by tablets has caused several multinational PC vendors to divert a larger proportion of their overall focus onto their tablet ranges," says Fouad Charakla, research manager for personal computing, systems, and infrastructure solutions at IDC Middle East, Africa, and Turkey. "This development has enhanced the growth momentum of tablets in the region."
The corporate segment will continue to grow steadily throughout the forecast period, experiencing a slight spike in 2014 owing to the Fatih project in Turkey, where one million units are expected to materialize. Education remains the main focus area for vendors in the commercial space, with various initiatives being launched across the region.
"The tablet market will continue to be driven by low-cost tablets, be they from the newer Far-Eastern entrants or even from the more established multinational brands," says Mendes. "The main focus of every vendor now is to secure its position in the market by grabbing the biggest share possible from the two tablet giants of Apple and Samsung."
For more information, visit:
http://www.idc.com/
Windows 8 Finally Edges Past Apple's OS X With 7.4% Market Share vs. 7.3%
Appleinsider's Kevin Bostic notes that while itt hasn't been nearly as rapid market share take-up as Microsoft hoped and promised a year ago, the Windows 8 platform continues to inch forward in market share, finally surpassing the overall installed base for Apple's Mac OS X nearly a year after Microsoft's latest operating system was released.
http://goo.gl/XsGf5i Bostic cites the latest figures from Net Applications showing Windows 8 with a 7.4 percent share of all desktop OS web traffic for August, significantly up two full percentage points from the 5.4 percent share Win 8 held at the beginning of August, and just edging out Apple's 7.3 percent for all OS X version installs. However he notes that Apple's dominance in tablets means that it's still beating Windows 8 where most observers believe it counts.
For the full report visit here:
http://goo.gl/iI3pjD
Carl Icahn To Serve As Matchmaker For Apple Acquisition Of Nuance?
The New York Post's Kaja Whitehouse And Mark DeCambre report that a rumor circulating on Wall Street has it that billionaire Carl Icahn, who recently purchased a "large position" in Apple, may be angling to act as a matchmaker between Apple and Nuance Communications, in which he recently increased his stake to 16.9 percent. Whitehouse and DeCambre cite hedge-fund consultant Charles Gradante, estimating that Apple could buy Nuance for $7 billion, which would hardly put a dent Apple's massive reserve of cash.
For the full report visit here:
http://goo.gl/y95lyZ
A Beginner's Guide to OS X File Sharing
mac.tutsplus.com's Jordan Merrick notes that sharing files over the Internet has never been easier thanks to services such as Dropbox, WeTransfer and even email. Despite this ease at which we can send a file to the other side of the world, sharing files on a local network to the computer across the room is still a complicated affair.
In this tutorial Merrick shows you how to OS X's built-in File Sharing service to provide a more robust and simpler way of sharing files on a local network.
You can check it out at:
http://goo.gl/CO6Mlo
How to Build Your Own Colorful Laptop Stand
Mashable's Danielle Odiamar says that if you find yourself at your computer all day, a laptop stand is a great way to improve your posture and add extra height to your screen, so why not save some money and get creative with a do-it-yourself custom stand made from PVC pipe.
You can check it out at:
http://goo.gl/O432LG
How To Control Your PC From Your iPad For Free
CNET's Riick Broida notes that last week, the folks at Parallels unveiled Access, a remote-control utility for Windows and Mac that lets you access either of those desktop environments via an iPad app, but Parallels Access is rentalware that costs $79.99 per year per computer.
Fortunately, Broida says there are alternatives that give you very similar functionality for a much lower price, such as $0, for example TeamViewer, is free for personal use, and available not just for iPad, but also for iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone 8., while on the desktop side, it's compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Broida shows you how you can get your iPad (or other mobile device) connected to your PC without spending a penny.
For the full report visit here:
http://goo.gl/DsCLQv
New "Take Control of Your Online Privacy" eBook Addresses Internet Privacy Concerns
"Take Control of Your Online Privacy," by best-selling ebook author Joe Kissell, explains what is reasonable to expect about online privacy and helps readers to develop a sensible personal privacy strategy for Web, email, and more.
Kissell describes what even ordinary people have to hide, how to develop personal privacy rules, and how to apply these rules to making an Internet connection, browsing the Web, sending and receiving email, chatting online, spoken communications, social media, and sharing files. A special "Teach This Book" topic links to a one-page PDF handout and presentation that can help readers convey the main points of this ebook to colleagues, clients, students, and family members.
The 118-page "Take Control of Your Online Privacy" is available for $10 from this Web page, which also includes Kissell's humorous "None of Your Business" video:
http://tid.bl.it/tco-online-privacy-pr
Whether on a Mac or PC, iOS or Android device, set-top box, or cell phone, readers will find carefully considered advice about how ordinary people can best handle common privacy needs. Topics covered include:
(*) Manage your Internet connection: Prevent snoops and take key precautions to keep your data from leaking out.
(*) Browse and search the Web: Learn what information is revealed about you when you use the Web. Avoid bogus Web sites, connect securely where possible, control your cookies and history, block ads, browse and search anonymously, and find out who is tracking you. Also, learn how to protect your passwords and credit card data.
(*) Send and receive email: Find out how your email could be intercepted, consider when you want email to be extra private (such as when communicating with a doctor or lawyer), find out why Joe doesn=92t recommen= d
email encryption as a solution to ordinary privacy needs (but find pointers for how to get started if you want to try it =97 or just encrypt an attachment, which is easier), get tips for sending email anonymously, and read ideas for alternatives to email.
(*) Talk and chat online: Consider to what extent any phone call, text message, or online chat is private and find tips for enhancing your privacy when using these channels.
(*) Watch your social media sharing: Understand the risks and benefits of sharing personal information online, tweak your settings, and consider common-sense precautions.
(*) Share files: What if you want to share (or collaborate on) a contract, form, or other document that contains confidential or personal information? Find out about the best ways to share files via file server, email attachment, cloud-based file sharing service, peer-to-peer file sharing, or private cloud.
(*) Help your children: As a parent, you know a lot about your children and you have access to lots of photos of them. Find a few key tips to keep in mind before you tell all.
Book Details:
"Take Control of Your Online Privacy" by Joe Kissell
http://tid.bl.it/tco-online-privacy-pr
PDF format, 118 pages,
Publication date: August 27, 2013
Price: $10 (PDF, EPUB, Mobipocket/Kindle)
ISBN: 978-1-61542-425-2
Joe Kissell is the author of numerous books about Mac and iOS topics, including "Take Control of Your Passwords," "Take Control of Dropbox," and "Take Control of iCloud." He is also a Senior Contributor to Macworld and to TidBITS, was the winner of a 2009 Neal award for Best How-to Article, and has appeared on the MacTech 25 list (the 25 people voted most influential in the Macintosh community) since 2007. Joe has worked in the Mac software industry since the early 1990s. Joe likes to travel, walk, cook, eat, and dream (in both senses of the word). He lives in San Diego.
For more information, visit:
http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/
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