Tablets to dominate netbooks

The Apple iPad may soon put a stake in the heart of netbooks, according to predictions made by research analysts, reports IT Business.

Although only about 3.5 million tablets will be sold this year, by 2012 tablet PCs will outsell netbooks, according to Forrester's projections. By 2015, more consumers will be using slates like Apple's iPads than use the diminutive, traditional clamshell-style netbook PCs.

"Tablet growth will come at the expense of netbooks, which have a similar grab-and-go media consumption and Web browsing use case as tablets, but don't synchronise data across services like the iPad does," says Sarah Rotman Epps, a Forrester analyst.

Vodafone Portugal has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to enable the seamless convergence of legacy services with new data services, states Capital.

Vodafone Portugal is creating new service bundles combining legacy and network services to satisfy a growing demand for personalised services.

Nokia Siemens Networks' Service Broker will be fully integrated into Vodafone Portugal's existing business processes.

Toshiba will roll out a modified version of Intel's Classmate convertible laptop in Japan, says PC World.

Classmate was developed by Intel as a PC for the education market and is offered to PC makers as a reference design.

Toshiba said it expects the educational PC market to grow in coming years as a result of a new Japanese government policy to provide digital textbooks for all elementary and junior high school students by 2015.