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NOOK Touch hack speeds up E Ink, shows why it’s not ready for tablets

E Ink is a pretty fascinating display technology. Designed for eBook readers, E Ink screens look a lot like ink on paper. But there’s a down side – most eReaders have slow screen refresh rates which means you can’t use them for video or even smooth scrolling in web browser or other applications. That’s not […]

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CyanogenMod 9 coming soon to the Eee Pad Transformer Prime

Now that Asus has provided a way to unlock the bootloader on the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, we’re starting to see people loading custom firmware on the tablet. Earlier we showed what Ubuntu Linux looks like on the Transformer Prime. Now the folks at Androidroot.mobi have posted a tool for installing ClockworkMod Recovery and […]

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Asus Eee Pad MeMO 171 website goes live (last year’s model)

Asus introduced a new 7 inch Android tablet at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in January. It’s called the Eee Pad MeMO and it has a 1280 x 800 pixel display, an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad core processor, and a $249 price tag. Recently Asus added a product page for the Eee Pad MeMO to its website… […]

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Future versions of Adobe Flash for Linux to be Google Chrome only

Adobe has laid out a roadmap for future development of Adobe Flash, and one of the things that caught my eye is that Flash Player 11.2 will be the last official standalone version of the browser plugin for Linux. While Adobe will continue to support Flash Player 11.2 for Linux with security updates for several […]