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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Lenovo launches first Ice Cream Sandwich TV — Lenovo is entering the TV business at this year's CES, and it's doing so with a splash: The company announced the world's first TV set running Android 4.0, a.k.a. Ice Cream Sandwich, Sunday. The device, dubbed the Lenovo K91 Smart TV …
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Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Lenovo IdeaTab S2: a 10.1-inch, dual-core Android 4.0 tablet with keyboard dock attachment — Asus's Transformer tablets are getting some competition at CES, folks: Lenovo has just unveiled its own 10-inch tablet with a detachable keyboard dock for extra battery life, and on its own …
Jason Hiner / Tech Sanity Check Blog:
Why Android tablets failed: A postmortem — Takeaway: Android tablets were expected to give the Apple iPad fierce competition in 2011. It never happened. Here's why Android tablets flopped. — As I gear up for CES 2012 next week, I can't help but think back to CES 2011 where the big story was all about Android tablets.
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Dana Wollman / Engadget:
Lenovo unveils six mainstream consumer laptops (and one desktop replacement) — Not content to stop at a netbook and a pair of Ultrabooks, Lenovo just a slew of mainstream laptops (and even a desktop replacement) to fill out its consumer IdeaPad line. Starting at the high end …
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Acer's next-gen, quad-core Iconia Tab introduced at CES 2012 with a 1080p display — Acer's finishing up its CES 2012 presser with a teaser to end all teasers: there's a next-generation, quad-core Iconia Tab on the way. The Android-based slate will be powered by NVIDIA's Tegra 3 and will boast …
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David Pierce / The Verge:
Acer announces Aspire S5, 'world's thinnest ultrabook' with Thunderbolt port — Ahead of its press conference at CES, Acer has just announced the new Aspire S5 ultrabook, which the company says is the world's thinnest — it's only 15mm at its thickest point.
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Paul Miller / The Verge:
Acer's AcerCloud unveil is a blatant iCloud ripoff — Which is which? Acer just showed off its AcerCloud service, something that already sounded suspiciously like Apple's iCloud. Even the “PicStream” element sounds a lot like Photo Stream. Still not convinced?
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Acer takes to the cloud with AcerCloud service, to launch in Q2 2012 — Acer has today announced its entrance into the cloud computing space with its AcerCloud service. The company says the software — which will come bundled with Acer's consumer PCs beginning in the second quarter of this year …
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Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:
Facebook Adds In-Game Offers Option For All Developers, Hoping To Further Diversify Revenue — Facebook has just started letting any developer on its platform run advertising offers that pay out directly in the native currency of their games. Let's say you're playing Ravenskye City …
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The Economist:
Space invaders — America's Intel and Britain's ARM have long dominated different bits of the global chip market. Now each is attacking the other's stronghold — LAS VEGAS is a city of fast bucks, fast food and fast marriages. It could also be the place where a long war was declared.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Square Expands Retail Partnerships; Now Sold At OfficeMax And UPS Store Locations — For disruptive mobile payments startup Square, 2011 was a year of massive growth on many levels. The startup ended the year with over 1 million merchants using the mobile payments platform to accept credit cards …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft: It's business as usual with Windows Phone updates — Summary: ‘Nothing has changed in regard to how we work with carriers to deliver Windows Phone updates to our customers,’ maintained a Microsoft official following a change in Microsoft's update disclosure policy.
