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Samsung shows off WiMAX 2 demo: 330Mbps mobile broadband

If you thought that WiMAX and LTE technologies which allow wireless carriers to offer mobile data rates of up to 60Mbps were fast, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Samsung is showing off a new WiMAX 2 demo at CEATEC in Japan, with speeds up to 330Mbps. The demo shows 16 HD vidoes streaming to 4 […]

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Marvell, OLPC working on low cost education tablets, XO 3 tablet coming in 2012

One Laptop Per Child founder Nicholas Negroponte tells Xconomy that the group has received a $5.6 million grant from chip-maker Marvell to develop low cost tablets built around Marvell’s low power chips. That’s not a huge surprise, since the two have been working together since earlier this year. But here’s what I learned from the […]

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LG puts Android tablet plans on hold, waits for Gingerbread

Google has already said that it doesn’t consider Android 2.x to be an operating system suitable for tablets. While Samsung, Dell, Toshiba, and a number of other device makers seem to disagree, LG seems to be on the same page as Google. The company had been planning to launch a tablet using Android 2.2, but […]

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Toshiba AC100 hacked to run Ubuntu Linux – video

The Toshiba AC100 is one of the first netbook-style devices to ship with Google Android installed. The operating system is typically installed on smartphones or tablets with touchscreen devices — not computers with keyboards and touchpads. The Toshiba AC100, on the other hand, looks like a netbook, with a 10 inch. 1024 x 600 pixel […]

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TwinTech launches dual core, NVIDIA ION-powered nettop

TwinTech is offering a nettop with a dual core Intel Atom D525 processor and NVIDIA ION 2 graphics. It’s called the TwinBox, and it’s selling for 339.00€ in France. That’s about $465 US. The small form factor desktop has 2GB of DDR2 memory, a 250G or 500GB hard drive, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Etherent, Bluetooth, and a […]