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January 7, 2013, 1:25 AM

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Sarah Silbert / Engadget:

Lenovo announces multi-user Horizon Table PC for $1,699 and up (video) — In addition to announcing some traditional all-in-ones today, Lenovo is introducing the IdeaCentre Horizon 27 Table PC. It too is a full-fledged, battery-powered desktop, but it can collapse into table-top mode …

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Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Lenovo ThinkPad Helix tablet / laptop hybrid gets a power-up when it docks — Did you think you'd seen every possible way a laptop and tablet could merge? Lenovo's ThinkPad Helix is here to show you otherwise. Rather than simply flipping head over heels, twisting in place …

More: VentureBeat, Gotta Be Mobile, Engadget and CNET

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Lenovo updates its laptops and all-in-ones with multitouch for Windows 8

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Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Nvidia unveils Tegra 4, 'world's fastest mobile processor' — Nvidia has just announced its next-generation Tegra 4 processor for smartphones, tablets, and notebooks. The Tegra 4, like its predecessor, features a quad-core processor along with a fifth, low power, core to save battery life.

More: Tech Trader Daily, Engadget, Inquirer, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, LAPTOP Magazine, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, PhoneArena and SlashGear

Tweets: @aaronissocial, @saschasegan and @joshuatopolsky

Ben Gilbert / Engadget:

NVIDIA building Tegra 4 into an Android gaming controller / console, dubbed ‘Project Shield’ — A video shown on-stage during NVIDIA's press conference just unveiled “Project Shield,” a gaming controller / portable console running Tegra 4. The controller looks an awful lot like a PlayStation 3 DualShock 3 …

More: Gizmodo, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, LAPTOP Magazine, VentureBeat, The Next Web, SlashGear and TechnoBuffalo

Caleb Hannan / Business Week:

Dish Network, the Meanest Company in America — For 2012, the website 24/7 Wall St. determined that the worst company to work for in America was the Dish Network (DISH), the Englewood (Colo.)-based company that provides satellite TV to more than 14 million subscribers.

Tweets: @grahamhill

Chris Welch / The Verge:

The future of USB 3.0 coming mid-year with data speeds doubling to 10Gbps — The USB 3.0 Promoter group today announced development of an updated USB 3.0 specification that will offer double the data performance of existing devices, with max speeds reaching 10Gbps.

More: MacRumors, CNET, Gizmodo, Engadget, Electronista and The Register

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Reddit Rumored To Be Raising Money, At A $400 Million Valuation — Welcome to yet another Rumor Sunday™. In 2011, Reddit was spun out of Conde Nast as a standalone company, but the publishing giant kept full ownership. At the time, Peter Kafka of AllthingsD reported that Conde Nast …

Tim Wu / The New Republic:

Why Does Everyone Think Google Beat the FTC? — In the aftermath of the FTC's settlement with Google yesterday, too many reporters fell for the line that Google used some fancy combination of executive charm and lobbying prowess to beat the federal government at its own game.

More: The Verge. Tweets: @mcandrew and @binarybits

Reuters:

Handset makers scurry to join Year of the Phablet — (Reuters) - Call it phablet, phonelet, tweener or super smartphone, but the clunky mobile phone - closer in size to a tablet than the smartphone of a couple of years back - is here to stay. — A surprise hit of 2012, it is drawing in more users …

Mark Spoonauer / LAPTOP Magazine:

HP Launches New Sleekbook and TouchSmart Sleekbook, Start at $479 — Don't look now, but AMD is going in for the Ultrabook kill. While some of the lowest cost Intel-powered Ultrabooks cost $549 to 599, the new HP Pavilion Sleekbook just announced at CES 2013 will start at a low $479 when it goes on sale January 13th.

More: Engadget, CNET, The Verge and SlashGear

David Jolly / New York Times:

Ad Blocking Raises Alarm Among Firms Like Google — PARIS — Xavier Niel, the French technology entrepreneur, has made a career of disrupting the status quo. — Now, he has dared to take on Google and other online advertisers in a battle that puts the Web companies under pressure to use …

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Vuzix M100 smart glasses: hands on with the contender trying to beat Google Glass to market — Almost exactly one year ago, we saw an early prototype of Vuzix's competitor to Google's Project Glass. It was pretty rough, so we were eager to see how much progress the company made since there.

More: Gizmodo, Engadget, SlashGear and 1001 Noisy Cameras. Tweets: @joshuatopolsky

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