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When the time comes, installing Android 3.1 on the XOOM takes about 5 minutes

Google Android 3.1 has been rolling out for Motorola XOOM units for the past few days. While Google officials initially stated that the update would be available for Verizon XOOM 3G customers first, a number of people with WiFi-only tablets have also confirmed that they’ve received the update. Today I got an update notification on […]

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Amazon CEO on Amazon tablet plans: “Stay tuned”

There’ve been rumors floating around for the past few months that Amazon could be preparing an Android tablet that would presumably ship with the Amazon Appstore, Amazon Kindle, Amazon MP3, and other Amazon-branded services. When asked flat out about the project by the folks at Consumer Reports, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said “stay tuned” for […]

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Google expands Android beyond smartphones and tablets

Google Android may have started off as a smartphone operating system, but the software now powers tablets, set-top-boxes running Google TV, and even some laptops. Now Google is embracing the expansion of the Android platform with a few new announcements. First, Google is baking USB host support into Android 3.1 and launching an Android Open […]

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Can’t pick an OS? Always Innovating pushes triple-boot Android, Chrome, Ubuntu platform

Always Innovating, the company that brought us a tablet/netbook hybrid that you could stick to a refrigerator is back. But this time instead of focusing on its own hardware, this time the company is showcasing software it’s developed which can run on the $149 BeagleBoard compact computing platform. The software is called Super-Jumbo, and for […]

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Intel confirms that Android 3.0 is coming to x86 tablets

Intel CEO Paul Otellini has confirmed that the company is working to bring Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb to devices with x86 chips. Honeycomb is Google’s first crack at an operating system designed for tablets, and Intel clearly doesn’t want to cede the growing tablet space to competitors with ARM-based chips. Google hasn’t yet released the […]

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Will Intel push Android tablet platform later this year?

Chip maker Intel may have made a name for itself by building platforms for Windows and OS X computers, but with virtually every PC maker getting into the low power consumer tablet space Intel finds itself struggling to compete in the mobile space against ARM-based chip manufacturers. So Intel is starting to push its next-generation […]

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More signs of a Google Chrome OS tablet build show up in the source code

Google has been showing off mockups of tablets running the upcoming Chrome Operating System for ages, but the folks at CNET spotted a number of changes in the source code for the web browser-based operating system that show some real work is being done to optimize Chrome OS to run on tablets. Google continues to […]

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Highlights from Google’s Feb 2nd Android event

Google held an event today to talk about Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb and the Android Market. There weren’t a ton of surprises, but we did get a better look at the Honeycomb interface designed for tablets, and Google did announced some Market changes that are going to make life a bit easier for Android developers […]

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Google Android Honeycomb ported to the NOOKcolor: Doesn’t really work yet

The good news is that the first version of Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb has been ported to an existing Android tablet. Xda-developers forum member deeper-blue combined data from the preview SDK Google released this week with a kernel for the NOOKcolor eBook reader to get the software up and running on the tablet. The bad […]