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Will the best digital content in the world be made in India?

Do you fancy parking a car? Personally, I think parking is one of the most wretched activities in life. It’s frustrating, neck-twisting and nerve-wracking. Would a mobile game about parking a car make any sense? Before you answer, remember the caveat that mobile games are intended to entertain and not to frustrate. The logical answer [...]

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Tags: angry birds, apps, entrepreneurs, games, India

“Tablet U”: Tablets and the future of education

Despite being in the middle of a war zone, Mohammad Ahdali isn’t focused on bullets, but on bond indexing. Mohammad is hitting the books (well, the iPad) for next week’s business administration exam from an internet cafe in Damascus. Mohammed is one of 1,500 students from 132 countries who attend University of the People, the [...]

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Tags: angry birds, education, iPad, tablet, university of the people

Tablet PC sales continue to surge, but what is the future of the desktop PC?

A while back, I wrote about a growing trend amongst businesses, and business users, in replacing desktop PCs in favour of a tablet PC replacement, pointing to the increasing versatility of the tablet PC in executing office functions. Now research from two separate market intelligence firms, IDC and Forrester, forecast the kind of growth that [...]

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Tags: angry birds, iPad, notebook, PCs, reading, tablets