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Aug

26

2010

Will Google’s Chrome tablet be called the Speedbook?

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by Chris Moor
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Google has just recently filed for a new trademark, “Speedbook”. While no official word has been given as to what device will bear this name, it seems likely that it will go to a tablet device. That leaves us with two possibilities that we know of. First being the Chrome OS tablet we’ve all heard [...]

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Aug

9

2010

Watchdog app watches your Android device for runaway processes

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by Dustin Karnes
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One thing that the Android OS has always had in it’s favor is multitasking. The ability to leave things running in the background while you move over to other, more immidiately important tasks. The main issue with that, of course, is system memory. As processes are opened and left in that state on the device, [...]

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Aug

2

2010

Android the OS of Choice for Tablets Say PC Vendors

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by Chris Moor
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You’ve gotta give Intel credit. They know that smaller, more mobile computing is the future, and they’ve been pushing and pushing their Atom processor, and they’ve done a pretty good job in basically overtaking the netbook category in that regard. When it comes to tablets, however, the Atom is apparently not the processor of choice. [...]

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Jul

28

2010

Acer to release Dual-OS netbook with Android and XP

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by Dustin Karnes
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According to a very, very short (did I mention how short it is?) article at digitimes, Acer is expected to be releasing a netbook that runs two Operating Systems – Android and Windows XP. The Aspire One AOD 255 would retail for $370 US, and will be shown at the 2010 Taipei Computer Applications Show [...]

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Jun

7

2010

HTC Gives Apple Run for its Money

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by Chris Moor
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As you know, Apple and Android aren’t exactly the best of friends. There are Android tablets coming out in every size and form factor, however, Apple does control the market. Even so, Apple with its iPad, should still fear Android. With all these arguments, it has still mainly been a software vs software debate (Android vs iPhone OS). [...]

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