Android tablets providing users with viable iPad alternatives

From InfoWorld: After facing virtually no competition for months after releasing the iPad, Apple's dominant market share faces a challenge as consumers consider purchasing tablets that could be viable iPad alternatives.

Competition is always good, and tablets with Google's Android...

Sony Ericsson: Be Patient With Android 2.1 Upgrade

From PC World: On Sunday, Sony Ericsson finally started rolling out the Android version 2.1 upgrade to its Xperia X10 family, which also includes other improvements.

Users in the Nordic countries will be the first to get the upgrade, and then the rollout will continue in other parts...

Microsoft hopes to show its Cloud Power

From CNET News.com: After spending the last several months touting itself as "All In" when it comes to cloud computing, Microsoft now plans to spend several hundred million dollars to convince businesses what that actually means.

The software maker is launching its largest-ever ad...

Facebook app developers sold user info

From CNET News.com: Facebook has revealed that a data broker has been buying identifying Facebook user information from app developers, and as a result the social-networking powerhouse has placed some developers on a six-month suspension.

The announcement, which Facebook made Friday...

Sony Posts Big Profit, but is Hurt by Weakening Dollar

From DailyTech: Sony Corporation, Japan's largest electronics exporter and the fifth largest media conglomerate in the world, reported mixed news when it came to its fiscal second quarter earnings report on Friday.

The earnings were highlighted by some impressive gains. Most...

ATI Still Suffers from TSMC's 40nm Problems - Company

From X-bit Labs: Even though Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company claims that the yields on its most advanced 40nm node are high enough for mass production of advanced chips, actual designers and suppliers of graphics processing units still seem to have problems.

"We have had...

G.SKILL Ripjaws F3-12800CL7D-8GBRH 2x4GB Review (Page 1 of 10)

In the days where every person in the house has their own personal computer is no longer a luxury, and considering the fact that the term 'family computer' has long exited the minds of most people, it is interesting to see how much PC hardware has changed in the last decade -- both in continually lowering prices, and fundamentally increased performance breakthroughs. I often find it kind of funny when I talk to some middle school...

Acer Plans to Unveil Multiple Tablets on Nov. 23 in New York

From PC World: Acer plans to launch "multiple" tablet devices at an event in New York on Nov. 23, with different OSes and multiple form factors, the company's CEO said Friday.

The market has been waiting for version 3.0 of Google's Android mobile software for use in tablets, said...

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