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  • Toshiba is done with netbooks (in the US)

    Toshiba is done with netbooks (in the US)

    Earlier this year Toshiba introduced its first netbook with an Intel Atom N2600 Cedar Trail processor. But if ...

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  • VIA APC: A $49 Android computer with an ARM11 CPU

    VIA APC: A $49 Android computer with an ARM11 CPU

    VIA Technologies is entering Raspberry Pi territory with its latest product -- the APC. It's a $49 barebones ...

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  • $74 PC on a stick features Allwinner A10 CPU, Android 4.0

    $74 PC on a stick features Allwinner A10 CPU, Android 4.0

    The FXI Cotton Candy is getting a lot of attention as a PC on a stick that will ...

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  • AMD launches Trinity processors with an eye on “ultrathin” laptops

    AMD launches Trinity processors with an eye on ultrathin laptops

    AMD has launched its second-generation A-series line of processors aimed at a wide range of computers from desktops ...

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  • 10 Ultrabook deals for under $800

    10 Ultrabook deals for under $800

    Ultrabooks are thin and light laptops that use Intel processors and solid state disks (or solid state cache) ...

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  • How to root a Kindle Fire with Software Version 6.3.1

    How to root a Kindle Fire with Software Version 6.3.1

    Amazon released a minor software update for the Kindle Fire this week. It gives users a little more ...

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  • New kernel brings Netflix to Android 4.0 Kindle Fire

    New kernel brings Netflix to Android 4.0 Kindle Fire

    Kindle Fire owners have been hacking Amazon's $199 Android 2.3 tablet to install unofficial versions of Android 4.0 ...

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  • CyanogenMod 9 Alpha 0.1 for the NOOK Tablet kills (some) bugs dead

    CyanogenMod 9 Alpha 0.1 for the NOOK Tablet kills (some) bugs dead

    Just over a week after releasing the first build of Android 4.0 for the Barnes & Noble NOOK ...

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MK802 $74 Android PC-on-a-stick shown off on video

MK802

The MK802 is an inexpensive device with an Allwinner A10 processor, 512MB of RAM, and 4GB of storage. It looks like a USB flash drive, but it’s basically got all the workings of a tiny computer designed to run Google Android — including a USB port which you can use for a keyboard or mouse and an HDMI port for…

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May 25th, 2012, 10:41 am by Brad Linder | 11 Comments

VIA APC: A $49 Android computer with an ARM11 CPU

VIA APC

VIA Technologies is entering Raspberry Pi territory with its latest product — the APC. It’s a $49 barebones computer designed to run Google Android. The system includes a processor, memory, storage, and a range of ports for connectivity — but no case. You can slip the Neo-ITX system board into a computer case designed for a Mini-ITX or MicroATX motherboard,…

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May 22nd, 2012, 10:15 am by Brad Linder | 8 Comments

Google completes its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility

Motorola XOOM

It’s official: Motorola Mobility is now a subsidiary of Google. The proud new owner has said that it plans to continue running Motorola as a separate business, but Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha is stepping down to make room for Dennis Woodside, the Googler who will now head up the division. Google will continue to offer Android software free of charge…

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May 22nd, 2012, 9:20 am by Brad Linder | 1 Comment

Chameleon: Android home screen reimagined, coming in September

Chameleon

The home screen on Android tablets works sort of like a desktop on a computer. You can arrange shortcuts for launching apps or place widgets to show the time, weather, headlines, or other information. But the folks behind Chameleon think there’s another way to use the Android home screen and they’ve developed an app for Android tablets that offers a…

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May 17th, 2012, 11:19 am by Brad Linder | 3 Comments

$74 PC on a stick features Allwinner A10 CPU, Android 4.0

MK802 PC on a stick

The FXI Cotton Candy is getting a lot of attention as a PC on a stick that will be available soon for just $200. But a Chinese manufacturer has beat the Cotton Candy to market with a $74 USB thumb-drive sized computer. The Model MK802 is available from AliExpress for $74, or even less if you order in bulk. The…

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May 17th, 2012, 9:49 am by Brad Linder | 13 Comments

OpenMobile lets Android apps run on Tizen phones, tablets

OpenMobile Android apps on Tizen

Intel, Samsung, the Linux Foundation and a number of other companies are working together to develop a Linux-based operating system for phones and tablets called Tizen. It relies on web technologies such as HTML5, which makes developing apps for the platform a lot like developing for the web. But like any new platform, there probably won’t be many third party…

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May 15th, 2012, 4:45 pm by Brad Linder | 1 Comment

Firefox 14 beta for Android: Native UI, Adobe Flash support

Firefox 14 beta for Android

Mozilla has released a new beta of Firefox for Android which includes a major overhaul of the user interface. For the first time Firefox Mobile now includes a new user interface that uses Android design elements and support for Adobe Flash. You can download Firefox Mobile 14 beta for Android from the Google Play Store. It requires Android 2.2 or…

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May 15th, 2012, 1:44 pm by Brad Linder | 6 Comments

ES File Explorer for Android adds SkyDrive support

ES File Explorer with SkyDrive

Google Drive is cool and all, what with the 5GB of online storage users get for free. But Microsoft offers 7GB of free storage with Windows Live SkyDrive (or up to 25GB for some users). Now there’s an easy way to access your SkyDrive account from an Android device. Microsoft offers official SkyDrive apps for Windows Phone and iOS, but…

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May 14th, 2012, 2:51 pm by Brad Linder | No Comments »

Amazon Fire 6.3.1 software adds extra security options

Amazon Kindle Fire

Amazon has released a minor update to the operating system for the Kindle Fire tablet. Software version 6.3.1 includes a handful of changes, with most aimed at giving users more control over their security options. The Kindle Fire 6.3.1 update includes: Additional parental controls Users can now password-protect purchases You can disable access to specific content libraries You can block…

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May 3rd, 2012, 3:32 pm by Brad Linder | No Comments »

Android without Java: Xamarin ports Google’s OS to run on C#

XobotOS (Android on C#)

Google and Oracle are duking it out in court over the question of whether Google had the rights to use Java as a basis for the Android operating system. Meanwhile the developers at Xamarin have shown that Android doesn’t need to run on Java at all. They’ve taken the source code for Android and modified it so that instead of running…

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May 2nd, 2012, 11:33 am by Brad Linder | 6 Comments

Android 4.0 updates arrive for Acer, Sony tablets

Sony Tablet S with Android 4.0 and small apps

Acer and Sony have started rolling out Android 4.0 software updates for tablets that shipped with Android 3.x. We’d already heard that Sony and Acer would be rolling out the updates in April, and it’s nice to see the software arrive before the month is over. Here’s a run-down of tablets that are in line for the updates: Acer Iconia Tab…

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April 26th, 2012, 9:36 am by Brad Linder | 2 Comments

Google planned to subsidize unlimited data plans for $10/month

HTC G1

Most US wireless carriers charge a pretty penny for data plans. But once upon a time Google imagined a world where smartphone customers would pay just $9.99 per month for unlimited data. The Verge has been poring through documents from a court battle between Google and Oracle, and spotted a document outlining Google’s 2006 proposal to subsidize the cost of…

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April 25th, 2012, 4:00 pm by Brad Linder | No Comments »
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