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Lilbits (4-30-2013): The web turns 20, Google Glass tries to make it obsolete

It’s been 20 years since the first website went online. It’s a bit underwhelming by today’s standards, with nary an animated GIF in sight. But without that first page we probably wouldn’t have Amazon, Facebook, Google, Instagram, Pandora, or any number of other companies that have come to be such a big part of our […]

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Paranoid Android teases Halo: It’s like Facebook chat heads, but for any app with notifications

One of the most interesting features of Facebook Home for Android is the Chat Heads notification system. Instead of showing an alert in your status bar every time you get a new message from someone you’re chatting with, a picture of that person will pop up on your screen and stay on the screen no […]

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H7000 is a $190 7 inch Android smartphone, or a tablet that makes calls

Asus doesn’t have the market cornered on smartphones with 7 inch screens. A new Chinese phone called the H7000 is about the same size and shape as the Asus Fonepad. And like the Fonepad you can use the H7000 as a mobile tablet… or you can use it to make phone calls. While Asus doesn’t […]

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Deals of the Day (4-30-2013)

With a starting price of $299, the Asus Transformer Pad TF300T is one of the cheapest 10 inch tablets available with an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor. But if you’re looking to save some money, you can now find refurbished models for even lower prices. Woot is offering refurbished TF300T tablets for just $239. Here […]

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Lenovo ThinkPad S431 notebook coming in June for $700 and up

Lenovo’s next ThinkPad notebook is laptop with a 14 inch display and a small screen bezel — the company says the Lenovo ThinkPad S431 is about the size you’d expect a 13 inch laptop to be. It’s also reasonably svelted, at 0.8 inches thick. That puts the ThinkPad S431 squarely in ultrabook territory — although […]

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BlackBerry CEO Thorstein Heins sees no future for tablets

BlackBerry doesn’t have a great track record with predicting the future. The company may have dominated the US smartphone space a decade ago thanks to support for corporate networks and phones with QWERTY keyboards. But BlackBerry has been struggling in recent years to keep up with Apple and Google in the mobile space. So I’m […]

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Lilbits (4-29-2013): Acer’s next Windows 8 tablet?

Intel’s next-generation Atom chips are expected to start shipping soon, and they’ll likely power the next-generation of low-cost Windows 8 tablets and convertibles. Rumor has it that one of the first could be an Acer tablet called the Acer WT5, a 10 inch tbalet with a 1080P display, 2GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage. […]

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Sony Xperia Tablet Z up for pre-order for $500, won’t ship for nearly a month

As promised, Sony is getting ready to launch its new 10 inch Android tablet this spring. The Sony Xperia Tablet Z won’t actually be available until May 24th, but you can pre-order one now for $499.99 and up. While that’s a relatively high starting price for an Android tablet, the Xperia Tablet Z has a […]