he was digging at his competitors a little bit in his opening speech. he said, our competition is different. he said, they re confused. he said they chased after netbooks. now they re trying to make pcs into tablets and tablets into pcs. we have yet to hear about the actual ipad, which is what we re all waiting to hear from. we re excited. there s a war going on, a tablet war going on right now. so where does apple stand in this war? i would say apple and the ipad are still leading the charge. times have changed. you know, about a year ago apple, the ipad was 60% of the market share. now you look at it compared to this year, it s now 32.4% compared to samsung at 18%. you know, apple, the ipad s biggest competitor is the samsung galaxy. there are also different tablets that are smaller and cheaper and they just keep getting better and better. they got to keep up. i think that s why so many people are waiting to hear from them today and see what they re going to update. let s see i
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a laptop without all the stuff you hate about laptops. google announces it is coming out with the new chromebook in june. it doesn t need anti-virus software and runs differently than any laptop before it. we ll bring in our tech guru. let s get geeky now, she says. katie, break down the specs here for us, will you? i hear your pain, don. we have netbooks, tablets, pcs, now we are talking about chromebooks. google announced starting in june they have partnered with samsung and acer to recreate what is going to be rented by students in a $20 netbook. and for businesses as well it
will start at $28 a month. you can purchase it for $350, but this is a whole different way of thinking with the chromebooks, don. okay. but here s the thing, it is not the price. it is $20 a month for students. it is not the price everybody is buzzing about, but the laptops run off the, quote, cloud. this is the word we have heard a lot lately. explain to us what the cloud is and how the laptops run off of it. absolutely. here s the big news in all of this. it is not the price, but it is that the chromebooks run completely off the cloud. a lot of people are like, i hear that on commercials and we talk about the cloud all the time, it is a big buzz word in the tech industry. what does that mean? well, these little netbooks don t have a hard drive. so you are typically used to going to your my documents to download photos to your computer and using microsoft office and excel, forget that. when running off cloud, you are doing everything online. you can really only access documents an
their habitats into residential areas. officials warn that large gators won t think twice about grabbing a human. let s go to the st. landry parish of crop springs. ed, what do you know? reporter: well, don, we are in one of those neighborhoods that got the mandatory evacuation orders a few hours ago. as you look around here, this is a small subdivision right on the edge of the river. and authorities came through here literally going door to door, the national guard and sheriff s deputies are urging people to leave. and in this subdivision made up of 20 homes, almost everyone has heeded that warning. you can see the spot behind me here, just a patch of dirt, a few hours ago there was a trailer home on that spot. a young man by the name of bret ensley literally had the trailer picked up and driven out of the neighborhood taking it to higher ground. we have seen that in a number of places. other than that, people are bringing in trucks and trailers and loading up what they ca