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Sony becomes the latest company to try and invent a new category of gadgets. After the Apple iPad, you would think the other companies would take some time to deepen their understanding of these things but it seems like Sony will have none of that. This device is called Dash and I completely agree with Walt Mossberg when he says that this like a photo frame on steroids. However, it does have more usefulness than an internet enabled photo frame.

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Yes it is a run for the acquisition these days for the two big Giants of the tech world — Google and Apple. Both of a lot of great ideas and they both lack the patience and the opportunity to  sit down and develop on those ideas. So what they lack in time and resources, they make up in strategic acquisitions. This is not really a new practice in the business world but it is exciting to see how these two companies are thinking regarding their own and the industry’s future through these acquisitions, some of which can be very telling. This time, we talk about Google and their acquisition of ‘BumpTop Computers’.

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There’s a time for action and there’s a time for selling your company to the highest bidder. For Palm, both those times have come an gone. They have had there chance and they did something nice — WebOS — but they didn’t quite get everything right. They made the fatal mistake of underestimating that market and hence, they got to where they are now – they have recently been acquired by HP. Rumors suggested this for a long time and there was also rumor that Asus and Dell tried to pitch in but didn’t quite make it.

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The HP Slate is still in the making, yes. But it looks like one of the development units made it out in to the outside world somehow and landed up with Mexican blog connecti.ca. The HP Slate has already started appearing in Promos and they show off the USB ports and the SD card slot along with the Flash capability. And the latest one builds up the hype showing iTunes. Yes, we all know what game’s going on here. But it seems like the people who got some hands on time weren’t really all that thrilled when they walked away from it.

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Yes yes, I know this is not news anymore. The whole tech industry is tripping on the same pill. I reported about Nokia doing it last and then we hardly had any evidence. But this time we have at least a real possibility that HTC is going to do it. They have released a very interesting patent showing a foldable tablet.

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But the question is will they be able to walk the walk? Tablets have been around for about a decade now and still, the iPad is the first ever fully successful attempt at making a tablet that everyone can use. Ironically, the company who really wanted to make the tablet a success is not the one who made the most successful tablet till date — it’s rival is. But when talking about these two giants (Microsoft & Apple), people tend to forget the other companies who have been making tablets in their own unique way. Nokia used to one of those companies but now it is nowhere to be found in this scene.

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Yes, that is what you should do when you legal notices bring you nothing but a tiny bit of media coverage that calls your bluff anyway. The Great Loong brother, China, is a manufacturer of Tablet devices. They had issued a legal notice against Apple with the claim that Apple copied their design with the iPad. What actually happened is that they basically made a tablet that carried the iPhone aesthetics very accurately and released it before Apple launched the iPad.

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Asus is saying that they want to compete with the Apple’s new iPad and hence they are planning and working on similar products which they hope to release in the near future. The company wants to build on the things they see as the Apple iPad’s weaknesses.

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Now that we are officially in the month of the iPad launch, a scary rumor has popped up about the iPad. According to some analyst, there has been a technical problem at Hon Hai Precision’s iPad production and has a result the first launch of the iPad will be limited to the US and will have a low number of units available. Hon Hai Precision is better known as Foxconn, Apple’s manufacturer of choice for many Apple products.

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HiVision is a Chinese company that has a strange tendency — they usually never offer their products outside China but they often turn up at international trade shows and show off really cheap versions of the latest computer trends. So it should come as no surprise to anyone reading this that they have a really cheap tablet on display at CeBit this year.

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