Third place behind Apple and Samsung in the tablet wars is “up for grabs” among Amazon, Asus, Lenovo and other emerging vendors, ABI Research said Wednesday (http://bit.ly/10lBnlY). Lenovo in particular “is working to gain ground in the market,” and in 2019 is expected to ship 21 million tablets, or 7.3 percent of the global market, ABI said. This “would land it solidly in third place,” it said. Lenovo remains the world’s biggest PC supplier, but now sells more smartphones and tablets than it does PCs, and is the world’s third-largest tablet supplier, Lenovo itself said in the runup to the IFA show last month in Berlin. During 2013, the tablet market “exploded with new devices overwhelming consumers,” ABI said. “Leading tablet vendors quickly dominated the market, but are now feeling the squeeze and quickly losing market share control,” creating a “stall” in more advanced and mature markets like North America and Western Europe, it said. “This stall is giving other vendors the opportunity to close the prominent gap and claim third place. The dent emerging vendors are creating in the market is impressive, but continuing that success is going to be the real challenge.”
Third place behind Apple and Samsung in the tablet wars is “up for grabs" among Amazon, Asus, Lenovo and other “emerging vendors,” ABI Research said Wednesday (http://bit.ly/10lBnlY). Lenovo in particular “is working to gain ground in the market,” and in 2019 is expected to ship 21 million tablets, or 7.3 percent of the global market, ABI said. This “would land it solidly in third place,” it said. Lenovo remains the world’s biggest PC supplier, but now sells more smartphones and tablets than it does PCs, and is the world’s third-largest tablet supplier, Lenovo itself said in the runup to the IFA show last month in Berlin (CED Sept 3 p6). During 2013, the tablet market “exploded with new devices overwhelming consumers,” ABI said. “Leading tablet vendors quickly dominated the market, but are now feeling the squeeze and quickly losing market share control,” creating a “stall” in more advanced and mature markets like North America and Western Europe, it said. “This stall is giving other vendors the opportunity to close the prominent gap and claim third place. The dent emerging vendors are creating in the market is impressive, but continuing that success is going to be the real challenge.”
CBP on Oct. 1 announced the launch of its Donation Acceptance Program, under which the agency may accept donations from the private sector and other government agencies to develop its port infrastructure. Faced with “a growing demand for facilities and renovations at aging ports of entry,” the joint CBP-General Services Administration effort will allow for an alternative source of funding through donations from “private corporations, public entities, municipalities, port authorities, consortiums, and any other private sector or Government entity.” Donated money, property, and services may be used for activities related to the construction, alteration, operations, and maintenance of an existing CBP or GSA port of entry, including land acquisition, design, and the deployment of new equipment and technology. The program was authorized by the Consolidated Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2014 (see 14011423).
The FCC’s first-of-its-kind auction may present complexities beyond the technical details for longtime telecom attorneys with clients that may sell broadcast-TV frequencies to the agency or wireless carriers that may be wanting to buy that relinquished spectrum for wireless broadband. Such firms representing multiple clients in the incentive auction, which government and industry officials have called extremely complex, may face challenges avoiding conflicts of interest, said wireless and broadcast attorneys in recent interviews. Firms that represent both wireless and broadcast clients -- such as Wilkinson Barker and Wiley Rein -- may not be able to do so in the auction, under local bar association ethics rules or possibly FCC anti-collusion rules, the attorneys said. Since the parties are buyer and seller on opposite sides, firms may not be able to act for both kinds of participants in the auction expected to raise many billions of dollars.
CBP issued a technical amendment to its regulations by revising the list of user fee airports to reflect the recent user fee airport designation of John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, California. User fee airports are airports that do not qualify for designation as international or landing rights airports, but have been approved by CBP to receive, for a fee, the services of CBP officers for the processing of aircraft entering the U.S., and the passengers and cargo of those aircraft.
Apple’s shortage of the iPhone 6 is good for business on eBay, we found by monitoring various auctions for the four-day-old phones. Apple said Monday it sold more than the available 10 million iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models in the three days after the phones went on sale in the U.S., Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore and the U.K. “We could have sold many more iPhones with greater supply and we are working hard to fill orders as quickly as possible,” said CEO Tim Cook in a statement (http://bit.ly/1tV4wzg). Business was brisk at eBay Monday, which featured the new Apple phones on its landing page. Our midday search for the iPhone 6 brought up 1,913 results. The lowest price we found was $700 for a 16 GB model of the 4.7-inch version with the disclaimer in the product description, “Long story short I got scammed by a seller. The phone is being financed through tmobile and will eventually be blocked on their network... . It has or will eventually have a BAD IMEI (International Mobile Station Equipment Identity).” The item condition was listed as “for parts or not working” and 17 people were watching the item, which had a day to go in its “buy it now” auction. We saw an auction for a new, unlocked 64 GB 6 Plus silver phone end at $2,550 Monday, surging more than $1,000 in the last 40 minutes of bidding, which began Friday at $400. The phone’s suggested retail price is $399 at the Apple website.
Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel urged the FCC to look at some nontraditional bands, as low as 400 MHz and as high as 90 GHz, as one way of addressing a looming spectrum crisis. Rosenworcel also called for an examination of whether some federal laws, such as the Miscellaneous Receipts Act, are limiting the ability of government agencies to move more quickly to other frequencies, speaking Monday at the GSMA 360 North America conference in Atlanta. The FCC put her remarks online (http://bit.ly/1uyreeB).
Apple’s shortage of the iPhone 6 is good for business on eBay, we found by monitoring various auctions for the four-day-old phones. Apple said Monday it sold more than the available 10 million iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models in the three days after the phones went on sale in the U.S., Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore and the U.K. “We could have sold many more iPhones with greater supply and we are working hard to fill orders as quickly as possible,” said CEO Tim Cook in a statement (http://bit.ly/1tV4wzg).
Apple’s shortage of the iPhone 6 is good for business on eBay, we found by monitoring various auctions for the four-day-old phones. Apple said Monday it sold more than the available 10 million iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models in the three days after the phones went on sale in the U.S., Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore and the U.K. “We could have sold many more iPhones with greater supply and we are working hard to fill orders as quickly as possible,” said CEO Tim Cook in a statement (http://bit.ly/1tV4wzg).
Industry officials urged Congress to reconsider many elements of USF support policy, despite lauding the broad principles that have guided it. House Communications Subcommittee Republicans issued a white paper last month (http://1.usa.gov/1pmX66c) asking several questions about USF, seeking responses by Friday. It was the fifth white paper the subcommittee issued as part of efforts to overhaul the Communications Act, an initiative announced in December. Initial responses, which the committee has not posted online but were shared with us, were on what parties considered necessary changes to the USF contribution mechanism.