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Amongst the tablet hype at CES, NVIDIA made a major announcement on Thursday introducing their latest Tegra 2 mobile chipset. The Tegra 2 chipset incorporates 8 independent processors to handle web browsing, HD video encoding/decoding as well as mobile gaming. It also accomplishes all this with a very low power consumption. In part, this is accomplished by the use of the ARM Cortex A9 dual core

 


Nvidia pushes Tegra tablets and 3D technology at CES
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang and Tegra general manager Mike Rayfield show new slate tablet PCs using the application processor.

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The new model, which will go up against the currently available Archos Internet Tablet and recently announced JooJoo (formerly the CrunchPad), will allow users to surf the Web from a handheld device bigger than a touchscreen smartphone, but smaller than a standard netbook, whilst working in a similar way to a mobile phone.

 


Dell Has a Tablet-Like Prototype, Too
Not wanting to be the only kid on the block without a faux-tablet in the works (or fauxblet, as I’m going to call it for now), Dell has announced that they, too, working on a slate-style PC.

Dell slate (secret) hands-on -- Engadget
We just got taken into a quiet side hallway for a 90 second photo shoot with the Dell slate device. It's... red. It's also a nicely thin five-inch Android device with a dialer, but other than that we weren't getting any answers on the record, so the myste

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The launch of the social news site Digg in 2004 was the perfect example of a good idea at the right time. That was the year the term Web 2.0 started being thrown about to describe the rise of new web technologies that allowed for more interactive sites, and an increased focus on user collaboration. Back then, the notion of a news site that was driven almost entirely by users was completely new an

 


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When you combine video games with physical activity, there's bound to be accidents, based on people fooling around, not paying attention, or being just downright stupid. Cracks in televisions, holes in windows, shattered glass, downed companions, black eyes, bruises, broken chairs --- the Wii is well known for all sorts of accidents.

 


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* Media tablet has 7-inch screen, runs Google's Android

* Pricing to be fixed but could be around $300

* Deployment depends on Verizon Wireless LTE network

 


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"Sony Ericsson Robyn looks like a younger brother (smaller version) the XPERIA X10 and it runs on the same custom UI developed by SE which powers the XPERIA X10"

 


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What’s also cool for us Tablet afficionados though is that Colleen, who is part of the behind the scenes crew, is using the Dell Tablet PC in slate mode to manage bandwidth:

 


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Yes. The Boxee Beta is officially out. You can grab it on their site.

In the past 4 weeks since we announced the upcoming Beta we had the help of tens of thousands of early access users who tested the Beta on all different platforms and gave us great feedback. Hundreds of bugs have been opened and we’ve been working diligently to resolve as many of them as we could. We feel the version deserve

 


A few screenshots
Five screenshots taken during the installation and after the initial launch.