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Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich ported to x86 chips

About two weeks after Google released the source code for Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich the folks at the Android-x86 project have released the first build for x86 chips. That’s pretty impressive, considering Google has only released the source for devices with ARM-based processors such as the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone. Google is reportedly […]

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Gigabyte T1132 notebook, tablet, desktop hybrid at the FCC

The Gigabyte Booktop 1132 is a computer designed for anyone that can’t choose between a laptop, a tablet, or a desktop. It aims to be all three. You can use the computer as a standard laptop, twist the screen and fold it back over the keyboard for use as a tablet, or close the lid […]

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It’s (sort of) official: Acer will launch a quad-core tablet next year

Over the past few weeks we’ve seen plenty of evidence that Acer was planning to launch at least one tablet with an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor. Now Acer president Jim Wong has confirmed as much in an interview with T3. Unfortunately, that’s all he was willing to confirm. So we don’t have any new details about the […]

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RIM responds to DingleBerry root for the BlackBerry PlayBook

A team of independent developers say they’ve managed to root their BlackBerry PlayBook tablets, gaining access to escalated device privileges and accessing settings that would not otherwise be available. They plan to release a tool called DingleBerry to the public soon, which would allow anyone to root a PlayBook. But in order to figure out […]

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Cisco to offer larger, smaller Cius tablets in 2012

The Cisco Cius tablet which launched this year is an Android tablet with an Intel Atom processor and a heavy emphasis on business. There’s an optional dock that lets you turn the tablet into an office phone, for instance. Right now Cisco offers a model with a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, but […]