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Next-gen BlackBerry tablet coming in Q3, 2013? Nope

Update: It looks like this was just an early April Fool’s prank… although that doesn’t mean we won’t see a new BlackBerry tablet at some point. It’s been to years since the BlackBerry PlayBook hit the market, and the tablet space has changed a lot since the introduction of that 7 inch tablet. Hundreds of […]

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Lenovo may be getting into the chip business

Chinese PC maker Lenovo may be getting ready to start developing its own processors. The chips would be aimed at the company’s smartphones and tablets, rather than traditional desktop and notebook computers. While Lenovo isn’t a major player in the smartphone space, the company is one of the top smartphone makers in its home country […]

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Cube U30GT2 quad-core tablet gets firmware update, custom ROM treatment

The Cube U30GT2 is a 10 inch tablet with a Rockchip RK3188 quad-core processor and a 1920 x 1200 pixel display. It ships with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and seems to function pretty well — although in my initial tests, I found the WiFi range wasn’t very good. Fortunately Cube has released a firmware update, […]

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Now Playing: Android music app borrows design cues from Google Now

Google Now is an Android app designed to deliver information to you when you need it, from traffic or weather reports to appointments, sports scores, or flight information. It’s also one of the best looking apps for Android, thanks to its simple, understated design. If you’ve been wondering why there aren’t more apps that follow […]

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Use your phone to find alien life, research diseases with BOINC for Android

BOINC is a distributed computing framework that lets hundreds or thousands of devices work together like one big supercomputer. It does this by taking a large amount of data that need to be crunched and breaking it up into little chunks. Then you can download one of those chunks at a time on your computer […]

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Deals of the Day (3-29-2013)

The Acer Iconia W510 is a Windows 8 tablet with an Intel Atom Z2760 processor, a 10.1 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display and 32GB of storage. Since it runs Windows 8 rather than Windows RT, it can run pretty much any app designed for Windows. But since it has an Atom processor, it may […]

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HP Slate 7 tablet ship date slips to June – Update: No it’s still April

Sure, the HP Slate 7 showed up at the FCC website this week. But apparently that doesn’t mean it’s on schedule to ship in April as planned. Engadget just noticed that HP’s website now shows an estimated availability date of June, 2013 for HP’s upcoming 7 inch Android tablet. Update: HP reached out to lets […]

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Intel says HD 4000 graphics driver update will boost performance by 10 percent

Intel is set to release a new graphics driver for computers with Ivy Bridge processors, which the company says will improve graphics performance while lowering power consumption. The Intel HD 4000 graphics driver version 15.3.1 should be available in early April. Intel’s 3rd-generation Core family processors feature integrated Intel HD 4000 graphics. While these chips […]

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Shedding “cheap” image, Vizio prices new notebooks at $1090 and up

Vizio may have made a name for itself by offering decent TVs and other consumer electronics  at relatively low prices. But the company seems to want to make a play for the premium space with its latest ultraportable notebooks. Vizio introduced a new line of notebooks with touchscreen displays at CES in January. Now the […]