Nvidia strongly criticizes tablets Android

Jen-Hsun Huang, Nvidia CEO and founder, is not satisfied with the first tablets Android / 2 Tegra, on the contrary. According to him the poor sales of the first tablets Android explained by a quintuple issue: "It's a problem outlets. This is a problem of expertise of vendors. This is a problem of consumer marketing.

It is a price problem and it is a problem of content-rich software. In other words, Apple may sell its iPad extensive distribution network by specialized vendors to be able to clearly explain their benefits to customers. Apple has targeted its best product and sells it cheaper than its competitors.

Archos up 30.4 million euros

Archos announced this morning that it had successfully raised new funds beyond his expectations. The group received 2.8 times more applications for subscription of shares that are available. In total, Archos will issue 4, 68 million new shares and increase its capital by 30.4 million euros. The company said that this money coming in will allow it to proceed to the prepayment of a 5 million euro at an annual interest rate of 20%.

Acer wants to sell less but better

After the announcement of the sudden resignation of CEO of Acer, a replacement spoke to clarify what the Taiwanese manufacturer's strategy in the coming months. Acer aims to break the mold, will not try to sell larger volumes but will try to increase its margins. The race for sales volume supposed to cut back on costs and tariffs in order to steal market share to HP or Dell.

But the difficult economic environment and the erosion of sales of netbook in favor of those of tablets made of Acer's position increasingly difficult. The new CEO will have to set a new course towards products with higher margins comfortable. And contrary to what we believed guess in yesterday's press release, Acer intends to accelerate its transition to mobile products including tablets.

Tom's Hardware tested the Motorola Xoom

In the great waltz tablets, a model has been particularly noticed ... the Motorola Xoom. It is not envisaged in France until the spring, but our colleagues Tom's Hardware have already tested. They found him a lot of potential that many teething problems are sadly wasted. Finally, it is probably a good thing it was launched in France or late.

• Motorola Reducing XOOM Orders Signals New Tablet In The Works? (22/03/2011)
• Sprint Motorola Xoom pictured (18/03/2011)
• TechCrunch Giveaway: A Motorola Xoom #TechCrunch (18/03/2011)
• Motorola Xoom review (15/03/2011)
• Motorola Xoom unboxing gallery (23/02/2011)

Motorola Xoom (wikipedia)  

BlackBerry Playbook: April 19 $ 499

The same day Samsung launches Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9, RIM has officially launched its Tablet BlackBerry playbook. The machine has a smaller screen (7 ", 1024 x 768 pixels) is slightly thicker (10 mm) but also lighter (425 g). Raw performance platforms will be close because RIM has chosen a processor Texas Instrument OMAP 4 also based on an ARM Cortex A9 dual core 1 GHz.

The playbook will be available in the U.S. on April 19 at $ 499 (16GB), $ 599 (32GB) and $ 699 (64 GB). All builders aligned the same price equal capacity, the choice will be easy to do depending on the performance of the OS and individual preferences.

• BlackBerry PlayBook will be available on April 19 (22/03/2011)
• BlackBerry PlayBook Coming April 19th, Pre-Order Now (PRESS RELEASE) (22/03/2011)
• BlackBerry PlayBook Available for Pre-Order Today for $499 (22/03/2011)
• BlackBerry PlayBook to hit North America in April (22/03/2011)
• RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook prepped for April 19 launch (22/03/2011)

BlackBerry PlayBook (wikipedia)