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ThinkPad slate pre-orders to start August 2 at $499 by Cyril Kowaliski — 2:12 PM on July 25, 2011 It's easy to lose interest in tablets amid the deluge of largely identical-looking Android offerings. Lenovo's upcoming ThinkPad Tablet is a more intriguing animal,... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	3
Lenovo rolls out a trio of tablets by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:22 PM on July 20, 2011 If you'd asked me five years ago whether we'd one day see a ThinkPad slate running a Google operating system, I probably would have shaken... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	25
Apple posts yet another round of record results by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:13 PM on July 19, 2011 Is anyone surprised? Once again, Apple's latest financial results announcement includes multiple uses of the word "record," not to mention growth numbers in the... Type: News story Tags: Mac Personal tech	145
Report: Apple, TSMC working on A6 chip manufacturing by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on July 18, 2011 While Apple is busy capturing market share with computers and handhelds, the firm is also busy working on the successor to its home-brewed A5 system-on-a-chip.... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Personal tech	26
As Google strikes at the Kindle, Amazon preps an Android tablet by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:42 PM on July 13, 2011 It's funny how these things happen. As Google gears up for the launch of the first e-reader based on its eBooks platform—a competitor to Amazon's... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	21
Carmack foresees phones outdoing today's consoles by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:35 AM on July 8, 2011 id Software technical guru John Carmack has been rather chatty lately, giving long interviews and imparting his wisdom upon eager listeners. This time, he's Type: News story Tags: Gaming Game consoles Personal tech	30
Toshiba Thrive tablet shows up at Newegg, Amazon by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on July 8, 2011 Another Tegra 2 tablet has landed, and this one is refreshingly affordable—compared to the iPad, at least. Toshiba's 8GB Thrive slate is now in stock... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	11
HP confirms talks to license WebOS by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:33 AM on June 30, 2011 That certainly didn't take long. Barely a month after publicly entertaining the notion of licensing its webOS mobile operating system to other firms, HP... Type: News story Tags: Software Operating systems Personal tech	2
Lenovo shows Android-powered ThinkPad tablet by Cyril Kowaliski — 2:19 PM on June 29, 2011 Surprise, surprise—another PC maker is readying an Android 3 tablet. This time, the company is Lenovo, and the product is a ThinkPad-branded device that apparently... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	14
Cheap Archos tablets pack mechanical storage by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on June 27, 2011 Today's tablets don't have very much storage capacity—typically 8GB to 16GB of flash memory on devices priced south of the $500 mark. Flash is certainly... Type: News story Tags: Storage Mobile computing Personal tech	20
Report: Eee Transformer takes number-two spot behind iPad by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on June 23, 2011 With the Eee Pad Transformer, Asus isn't just serving up a decently specced competitor to the iPad—it's also undercutting Apple by $100 and letting users... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	37
New digital camera tech offers focus after the fact by Geoff Gasior — 11:24 AM on June 22, 2011 We tend not to cover digital cameras here at TR, but I just ran across an interesting piece about a technology from Lytro that... Type: News story Tags: Personal tech	30
Nokia intros MeeGo-powered N9 smartphone by Geoff Gasior — 11:44 AM on June 21, 2011 While Intel continues to push MeeGo Linux for tablets, Nokia has introduced an all-new smartphone running the OS. Dubbed simply the N9, the... Type: News story Tags: Personal tech	33
7'', Tegra 2-powered Acer slate priced at $349 by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:54 PM on June 20, 2011 Many firms seem to be diving into the tablet market with $500 slates that ape the iPad 2, so seeing a hardware vendor buck that... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	31
Nvidia, Intel gain smartphone silicon market share by Geoff Gasior — 11:38 AM on June 17, 2011 The application processors used in modern smartphones are big business. According to the analysts at Strategy Analytics, the market for those chips more... Type: News story Tags: Personal tech	26
Panasonic, Lenovo prep enterprise-oriented slates by Geoff Gasior — 10:55 AM on June 16, 2011 To date, most of the tablets to hit the market have been targeted at consumers. Panasonic is offering something a little different with... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	3
Toshiba unveils $430 Tegra 2-powered tablet by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:23 AM on June 13, 2011 Well, it's nice to see at least one other tablet maker isn't shooting for absolute price parity with the iPad. Toshiba has introduced its... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	45
Deal of the week: Dirt-cheap tablets and storage by Cyril Kowaliski — 3:52 PM on June 10, 2011 You might recall that the 32GB, $500 version of Asus' Eee Pad Transformer came back in stock at Newegg and other retailers last week.... Type: News story Tags: Storage Mobile computing Personal tech	17

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