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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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You know, ever since Apple released its first ‘i’ product, the path for a lot of brand names starting with ‘i’ was paved in stone. But that didn’t turn out so good for Apple because a lot of other companies felt like it was a great way to name their products and hence they started using the ‘i’ prefix.

Many ‘i’ jokes later, we had the iPhone which faced trademark heat in multiple areas in the world. But since Apple cannot give up its penchant for naming devices generically with the ‘i’ prefix attached, it has run into trademark trouble once again with the iPad. After Fujitsu, it is turn for a French-Italian company called STMicroElectronics. Looks like they spent a lot of sleepless nights coming up with that name.

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Sick of tablet news already? Well, you need harden up because the world is currently in the mood for them and Apple is not going to be spared its fair share in the blame. A pretty hefty share at that.

Whilst you were drooling/hating/scratching your head at the iPad, there was a new company that was getting ready to announce its own tablets. This is back where Apple gets its stuff made — China and the company hails from Nanjing. It is called Motom and it currently seems to have 3 separate tablet devices in offer.

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So there was this tablet device called the iTablet much before the Apple tablet rumors reached fever pitch. It was made by Amtek and it has been around for quite some time you see. Now, there’s this company in the UK called X2, who are drawing your attention to something called the iTablet. The connection? It’s the same friggin’ device. Dare we ask for more creativity in the industry?

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It’s either that or Amazon is trying to divert our attention with an orchestrated hype generating move so that they can quietly work on their world domination plans in the background. Although not as exciting as an evil corporation bent on world domination, we will go with the Kindle supposition. So Amazon has been beefing up its arsenal in order to better compete with Apple’s threat. I can just imagine their emergency board meeting — “We have to do something. Let’s buy a touch company and get a good Manager with a great track record. Forget the cost, we are sinking here!”.

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You know when Apple refuses to comment on those bleeding obvious things that everyone’s pretty sure that they are going to (have to) do? Well, they are doing it again. This time it is the whole camera thing on the iPad. As in the lack of any sort of a camera. So it seems like that people who have inspected the hardware components of the iPad and developers who have been using the SDK, are all coming up with what they think are evidences of a planned camera that was probably killed at the last moment. No foul play is suspected, techies speculate cost being the primary motivation.

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So as it turns out — the CrunchPad turned JooJoo tablet not only made it to the final phase of development, they are actually going to manufacture and launch the damn thing! Now that’s not half bad for a device that has been crowd-sourced, (allegedly) stolen and rebranded multiple times over. It is supposed to be drowning in litigation right now but for some reason, a lawyer as good as Arrington failed to protect what he sees as TechCrunch’s intellectual property and now it is Chandra and his company Fusion Garage (a pretty new company) who are trying to manufacture and sell this thing.

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