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Thailand orders nearly a million Android tablets for students

India isn’t the only country looking for ways to offer students internet-connected Android tablets for educational use. The government of Thailand has just launched a “One Tablet PC Per Child” campaign that could deliver almost a million Android tablets to first grade students. The initial order is for 400,00 tablets at a cost of about […]

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Firefox 14 beta for Android: Native UI, Adobe Flash support

Mozilla has released a new beta of Firefox for Android which includes a major overhaul of the user interface. For the first time Firefox Mobile now includes a new user interface that uses Android design elements and support for Adobe Flash. You can download Firefox Mobile 14 beta for Android from the Google Play Store. […]

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Raspberry Pi $35 computer as a Windows 7 PC (remote desktop)

The Raspberry Pi is a $35 computer with a 700 MHz ARM processor, 256MB of RAM, 2 USB ports, an Ethernet jack, and HDMI output. While it’s a pretty impressive device for $35, one thing it can’t do is run Windows 7. That’s partly because Microsoft doesn’t offer a version of Windows 7 for ARM-based […]

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Acer Aspire M5 ultrabooks heading to UK in June

Acer is getting ready to launch the 14 and 15 inch ultrabooks the company introduced at CES in January. At the time Acer was calling the thin notebooks Timeline Ultra, but when they launch in the UK in June they’ll be called Acer Aspire M5 ultrabooks. There’s no word on the pricing yet. Both the […]

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Lenovo unveils ThinkPad X1 Carbon ultrabook

Lenovo unveiled its new line of ThinkPad notebooks with Intel Ivy Bridge processors today. For the most part these are your usual high-end laptops with a focus on business-friendly features. But one model that stands out from the crowd is the ThinkPad X1 Carbon. This is Lenovo’s first ThinkPad-branded ultrabook, and it looks like a […]

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AMD launches Trinity processors with an eye on “ultrathin” laptops

AMD has launched its second-generation A-series line of processors aimed at a wide range of computers from desktops to “ultrathin” notebooks. You can’t call them ultrabooks because Intel owns the rights to that word. Code-named Trinity, the new chips in this family range from a low power 17W  dual core processor processors aimed at ultrathins […]

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Acer Aspire S5 ultrabook goes on sale in June

Acer introduced the Aspire S5 ultrabook at CES in January, but at the time there were no details about the price or launch date. Now it looks like the thin and light laptop is set to go on sale in the United Arab Emirates in June for about $1400. The Aspire S5 will probably be […]

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ES File Explorer for Android adds SkyDrive support

Google Drive is cool and all, what with the 5GB of online storage users get for free. But Microsoft offers 7GB of free storage with Windows Live SkyDrive (or up to 25GB for some users). Now there’s an easy way to access your SkyDrive account from an Android device. Microsoft offers official SkyDrive apps for […]