Once upon a time the HP TouchPad tablet was selling for $499 and up. And by once upon a time, I mean two months ago. But HP quickly cut $100 off the price and then a short while later canceled the product altogether and dropped the price to $99 for a 16GB model and $149 for a 32GB tablet. So…

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Pandigital has quietly introduced a new 7 inch Android tablet which is available from QVC for about $140. The Digital Reader reports that the new tablet is basically the same as the white Pandigital Novel tablet and eBook reader that was released last year. But it’s black. The tablet runs Google Android 2.0 and has a 7 inch, 800 x…

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I’m always amazed that people buy things from home shopping TV channels like QVC. But I guess the fact that QVC also has a web store make me feel a little better about the idea. Anyway, a funny thing popped up on QVC recently, a netbook from BlueGear, a company I’ve never heard of. The specs look pretty average for…

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Dell has announced that the Inspiron Mini 10 will be available for preorder starting today. But not from Dell’s web site. You’ll have to wait until 26th to configure and order the mini-laptop from Dell. No, starting today, customers in the US will be able to place an order through home shopping channel QVC’s web site. Dell announced its partnership…

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I learned two things today. First, the Samsung NC10 netbook was recently featured on the QVC  shopping channel in the UK. And second, there’s a version of QVC in the UK. The network is based in suburban Philadelphia not too far from where I sit writing this blog post, but I had no idea how far its reach was. As…

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How much would you expect to pay for a 9 inch netbook with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, 1024 x 600 pixel display, an 8GB solid state disk, 1GB of RAM, and Windows XP? A thousand dollars? Two thousand? Two hundred? If you guessed $529, you’ve obviously been watching the QVC home shopping channel. Because that’s how much the company…

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