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January 7, 2013, 5:45 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, Engadget, CNET and Gotta Be Mobile

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

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

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Dana Wollman / Engadget:

Lenovo announces the IdeaPad Yoga 11S with Ivy Bridge, Windows 8; arrives in June for $799+

More: The Register, Inquirer, CNET, LAPTOP Magazine, Gotta Be Mobile, The Verge, SlashGear and Mashable!

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.

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 …

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

Andrew Longstreth / Reuters:

Google pact with FTC could affect other patent disputes

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Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Dropbox's new Modern UI Windows 8 app finally arrives in the Windows Store — It's been a month since we revealed that Dropbox had pushed its Windows 8 app for submission to Microsoft, and now the app is fully certified and has landed in the Windows Store for Windows 8 and Windows RT devices.

More: The Verge and WinBeta

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 …

Mat Smith / Engadget:

Windows RT ‘code integrity mechanism’ gets sidestepped, allows unsigned desktop apps to run — As Microsoft continues to promote and push its RT apps and programs, Windows tinkerer Clrokr at SurfSec has detailed how he managed to circumvent Redmond's controls on what can run …

More: On the Surface of Security, The Verge, Pocketnow, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, Softpedia News, PhoneArena, Neowin and WinBeta

Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:

HTC Posts Lowest Net Income in Eight Years After Revenue Drops — HTC Corp. (2498), Asia's second-largest smartphone maker, posted its lowest profit in eight years as a lack of new models prompted a loss of market share. — Fourth-quarter net income was NT$1 billion ($34 million) …

More: Reuters, Engadget, Digits, The Verge, ZDNet, ZDNet, TechCrunch, The Next Web and PhoneArena

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 …

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 …

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Roku Now Has 700 Channels, Including Time Warner Cable; Also Has 14 TV Manufacturers Compatible With Its Streaming Stick — Roku is announcing at CES today a significant milestone both in the amount of content and the number of devices that are compatible with its USB-sized streaming stick.

More: GigaOM, ZDNet, The Next Web, The Verge, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, Engadget, Engadget, VentureBeat and The Verge

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