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That will play flash video, same price, same size. blackberry, they were worried there wont be enough apps but they announced you can run android apps on playbook. great news. >> you see down the road tablets will overtake laptops. people want this more than the full keyboard? >> i do believe you can take this away for a weekend and do just about everything you might be able to do on a laptop. >> impressive. all three, your favorite and why? >> oh, my gosh. thats a hard question. i have to say t...

30 years since that assassination attempt against president reagan. >> incredible to see all that time go by. coming up a bit later, two top stories. the ipads competitors. well compare tablet computers hitting the market and see which ones have an edge. first, we want to get to that violence at the houston high school. one victim who was not a student died in the gunfire. >> several others were rushed to the hospital in all of this. it all unfolded during a late afternoon powder puff footba...

Pre-orders are accepted today at best buy. its smaller than the ipad, it has wi-fi b tethered from the blackberry for now. the playbook is just one more competitor to the ipad. the ipad sold nearly 15 million last year, 15 million units. and cnn money is reporting that 102 new tablet computers are coming out this year into a very, very hungry market. its projected that by 2014, 200 million tablet computers are going to be sold each year. and 2/3 of all computers sold will be tablets and smartpho...

Single decade. from 2000 to 2010. thats the largest percentage drop for any american city in history outside of new orleans after hurricane katrina. detroit was americas fourth largest city at the height of the auto industry. now with 714,000, detroit plunges to 18th. well, the maker of blackberry wants a piece of the ipad? right? the pie, at least. >> yeah. its a big pie. >> it is. >> what do they sell? one every two seconds? carmen wong-ulrich is minding your business this morning. >> this i...

Demanded those going into the city present protest cards. they are demanding political freedom and an end to corruption. in the last month, cell phones helped spawn revolutions in egypt and saved lives in japan. for the first time in history, smartphones outsold computers this year and now tablet computers, of course, are all the rage. those mobile devices are putting enormous strain on cell towers and it is just going to get worse. check this out. according to louis the, in the luce lucent, d...

Tweets, the actor and his soon-to-be ex-wife mull ver privately reached custody agreement over the two kids. sheen tweets not sure what all the legal noise is about. just verbally reached a deal with b. no court monday. yea. there is word of growing demand for tablet computers like the ipad. experts say thats sapping laptop sales. both apple and motorola unveiled new tablets, a firm that tracks tablet sales predicts global shipments of the popular devices will more than triple this year alone. a...

Than the original ipad, said to be 33% thinner and also a tad bit lighter. dan simon, cnn, san francisco. well, you know, apple really is up against it, because when the first ipad came out, there wasnt much of a market for tablet computers, if you remember. now there were more than 100 different models out there. among them the motorola xoom, a ten-inch screen. the ipad is slightly smaller than that, retails at $799 which is $300 more than the cheapest ipad. then the sampson galaxy, current v...

Them into products. bill gates was talking about tablet computers a decade ago but it took apple with the ipad to make them take off. windows smartphones have been around for ages but now google with its android phones is taking over the market. >> theyre really good at the hard science and really good at physical devices like xbox kinect. theyre totally missing the pleasing and delightful technology, the user interface people want to use. apple have that. microsoft dont. >> reporter: and there ...

Sales later, so far its got staying power. this year the challenge to apple is to prove the next generation ipad can hold its own against increasingly tough competition. the ipad has proven to be a real money spinner for apple in the first nine months after the ipads launch, the sales were worth $9.5 billion. and apples competitor have scrambled to grab a chunk for the market themselves. there are 102 tablet computers on sale or in development from 64 different manufacturers. thats according to ...

No one doubts the products staying power. so this year, the challenge for apple is to prove the next generation ipad stands above the mushrooming competition. third, return rates. and it will have to do that wout the ultimate salesman, steve jobs. apple contraction -- apples ceo steve jobs made a rare appearance with president obama. many ipad owners dont see a rival yet, one thats capable of matching specifications of ipad, though zoom and galaxy are nipping at its heels. cnn, atlanta. apple ...