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Intel is stepping up the drumbeat around its efforts to penetrate the mobile handheld device market leading up to the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, which will be held in Las Vegas in January. The semiconductor giant recently sent prototype devices, known as "reference designs," to the MIT Technolo...
Google may be planning to enter the tablet market in the medium term -- and not just as a partner in an OEM relationship. Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman, told an Italian newspaper that "in the next six months we plan to market a tablet of the highest quality." Certainly Google's Android h...
Christmas is coming in a few days, and many of you are kicking back with some eggnog for a well-deserved rest before the day arrives, and you are looking forward to the annual family who-is-the-biggest-ass competition. Yes, this is the time of year when relatives feel the need to overimbibe and tell...
Amazon.com will release a software update for the Kindle Fire in about two weeks, company spokesperson Kinley Pearsall told TechNewsWorld. "We're rolling out an over-the-air update ... that will improve performance, touch navigation, and give customers the option to choose what items display on the ...
IBM's Watson supercomputer became famous when it beat the top "Jeopardy" champions on TV. What folks didn't know is that Watson did that with significant handicaps that wouldn't be applied were the same system actually deployed to answer real questions. What Watson is particularly good at is providi...
A regional court in Mannheim, Germany, has ruled in favor of Motorola Mobility in one of several patent infringement lawsuits the company has brought against Apple in the country. This relates to European Patent 1010336, which covers a technology that's essential to wireless communications. The cou...
Online game service OnLive is bringing its cloud magic to smartphones and tablets. The pioneer in cloud-based gaming has introduced a free app that allows gamers to play console-style games on their smartphones and tablets. Although the application was announced Thursday, when it appears in app sto...
It's about time to change the stereotypical tablet user from casual and hipster to high-management. The post-PC world is now; tablets and other mobile devices are beginning to dominate the marketplace. An estimated 45 million tablets will be sold in 2011, three times the number sold in 2010, accord...
Motorola has announced two new Droid tablets, both of which will run on Verizon's 4G LTE network. The Xyboard 10.1 and 8.2 will be available this month, both online and at Verizon Wireless stores. The 10.1 will have a stylus and will come in three models, with 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB of storage. It w...
Jakob Nielsen, the design expert dubbed "the guru of Web page usability" by The New York Times and "the Web's usability czar" by WebReference.com, didn't find too many user-friendly features on Amazon's new Kindle Fire, according to a report he published on his website Monday. The device is too heav...
Windows 8 tablets may have a very difficult time competing when they finally hit the market, according to the findings of a recent Forrester Research report. U.S. consumer desire for Windows tablets halved between the first and third quarters of this year, said J.P. Gownder, one of the report's auth...
Well, today is your first day back (if you live in the U.S.) from the long Thanksgiving holiday, and you are likely still suffering through a bit of a food coma hangover and are wondering where your waist went. Trust me, it went on a long vacation and probably won't come out again until summer -- or...
Amazon.com's Kindle Fire tablet will be arriving on consumers' doorsteps a day earlier than planned, the company announced Monday, and reviewers have wasted no time sharing their own early thoughts about the new device. Originally planned for shipment on Tuesday to those who preordered it, the 7-inc...
When Amazon's new Kindle Fire tablet shows up on Nov. 15, users will be able to choose from thousands of apps available for download at Amazon's Appstore. That's way fewer than the hundreds of thousands iPad owners can get from Apple's App Store. Still, if they're the right apps, who cares? Popular ...
Bookseller Barnes & Noble expanded on its Nook line of handheld devices and unveiled the Nook Tablet on Monday. The company also announced upgrades to its Nook Color, a device that was previously offered as its entry into the tablet market, and its Nook Simple Touch e-reader. The Nook Tablet, wh...
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