…could things go a lot more quietly, the way of the MP3 player market and total Apple / iPod dominance instead?
GigaOM was quick to point out 5 Problems With Gartner’s Tablet Forecast, among them:

Apple’s iPad is poised to continue its overwhelming lead in tablet sales until 2015, holding 47.1 percent of the market according to [...]

In the larger “tech wars” of Apple vs. Microsoft vs. Google, the tablet form factor has all of a sudden gone from a relative novelty (even though Microsoft had tried to establish stylus-based tablets for years) to one of the key battle fronts.
Why? Because the iPad, barely 6 months old, has already sold around 7-8 Million [...]

Now that the dust has settled a bit on the iPad launch (unlike that from the Icelandic volcano which is keeping me in Europe for a few days longer than planned), it is time for a round-up of initial impressions.
And while everyone has predictably been falling all over themselves to get in a lot of [...]

Stop Whining About How Elitist And Expensive TED Is [Just Because] You Didn’t Get Invited Feb. 15, 2010, 9:17 AM
>> Too bad you missed it! Larry Page gave everyone a free Nexus One.
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via Silicon Alley Insider.

(Minor edit for colorful language.)
What is amazing about this (the subhead sentence after the headline), is not what it says [...]

If your business has anything to do with Google, or if you have any interest in the development of the Internet, or if you know what Google is :), you should take the time to review this 30+ slide presentation from French consulting firm FaberNovel, entitled "Everything you always wanted to know about Google but [...]