Year: 2010

Technology distributor Ingram Micro is seeing increasing interest in the iPad tablet as a business tool, opening up a larger potential market for the device, reports “Reuters” (http://www.reuters.com/article/idCNN2826968820101028?rpc=44).

Greg Spierkel, chief executive of Ingram Micro, said Apple has preferred to sell the iPad to retailers but that the company is increasingly letting his firm sell it to businesses. One significant use of tablets by businesses is by sales representatives in the field, he said.

OmniVision will supply CMOS image sensors for a second-generation iPad that will launch in the calendar first quarter of 2011, according to a research note to clients from investment firm Detweiler Fenton, as noted by “Barron’s” (http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2010/10/29/omnivision-reportedly-to-supply-image-sensors-for-next-ipad/).