DeviantART muro. Amazon may enter tablet fray in second half of 2011. Amazon may indeed be planning to leverage its digital content store of movies, TV, music, e-books, and Android apps to help sell a full-fledged tablet of its own. A new report suggests that Taiwanese manufacture Quanta has received orders from Amazon to begin building as many as 700,000-800,000 tablet devices per month to begin shipping in the second half of this year. The information comes from sources inside "upstream component makers" that told DigiTimes that Amazon's business could add up to $3.5 billion to Quanta's revenue for 2011. While DigiTimes doesn't have the best record on such advanced device rumors, Quanta already builds RIM's PlayBook, which we noted had excellent build quality. This particular rumor also gels with earlier analysis by Forrester researcher Sarah Rotman, who suggested that Amazon was in the best position to compete with Apple in the tablet space if it could put together decent hardware with a color screen.
Tablet time: Tablet computers take on the workplace. 21 March 2011Last updated at 05:39 ET By Fiona Graham Technology of business reporter, BBC News, Tallinn, Estonia WATCH: Cashing up - Could tablet computers call time on the traditional cash register? "'Really cool,' I think is the word for it. " Raido Purge is one of the owners of Taibula, a colourful toy shop tucked away in a shopping mall in Tallinn, the Estonian capital. He is holding a Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet computer. The shop has started using the device running an app called Point of Sale as a replacement for the traditional cash register. "Clients are really impressed when we walk up to them and basically show them right here and right now, this is your product, would you like some additional information, would you like to see a Youtube video about this product? " "They give us their order right then and there. Across town, a branch of the Estonian clothing chain Bastion is also using the app.
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