| Editor's note: ASUS just might have found the key to competing with iPad. See which weaknesses it's trying to exploit. Also, see Google's reveal of Android 3.0 Honeycomb, Microsoft's plans for Windows 8 on ARM, and Samsung's new 4.5-inch Android smartphone. -Jason Has ASUS discovered the strategy to take down the iPad? ASUS has a different tablet strategy than most of the vendors trotting out tablets at CES 2011. Learn it's two-pronged strategy for beating the iPad and get the details on its four tablets. Read more | News from ZDNet | | | CES: Microsoft shows off Windows 8 on ARM Microsoft demonstrated at a press conference on January 5 the "next version of Windows" running on ARM processors, as many Microsoft watchers had been expecting. Read more | | CES: Samsung Infuse 4G pushes display size to 4.5 inches AT&T is going to be getting the largest display smartphone thanks to Samsung and the Super AMOLED featured Infuse 4G. Read more | | CES 2011: Nvidia is developing its first CPU Most of Nvidia's press conference at CES was devoted to its Tegra 2 processor for smartphones and tablets, but CEO Jen-Hsun Huang saved one big surprise for the end, a project to develop a high-performance CPU for PCs and servers based on the ARM. Read more | | CES: Netgear unloads new solutions to bridge Wi-Fi to spotty areas LAS VEGAS -- Everyone seems to have that one spot in their homes where the Wi-Fi network coverage is so spotty or even nonexistent, which is frustrating to no end. Netgear has some new solutions that might end that annoying feeling. Read more | | Is Amazon Set to Go After Apple in the Mobile Space? While competitors are scratching their heads trying to figure out how to give Apple a run in mobile, Amazon, a company not seriously competing with Cupertino, could become a major threat, and easily. Read more | | Google gives schools, organizations "walled garden" approach to email Don't want your students emailing people outside of the school community? No problem - Google now supports "walled gardens" in Google Apps. Read more | | Microsoft already seeking developer input for Office 16 Microsoft is known to be well into developing Office 15, its next version of its integrated Office suite. (In fact, one Microsoft VP said late last year he was running an early milestone build of it.) But Microsoft is already gearing up to gather developer input for Office 16. Read more | | CES: Cisco's vision for 21st Century "TV" is Videoscape Cisco has a new vision for television. Well, it's not exactly "television" that Cisco was talking at the unveiling of its Videoscape architecture at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. (Press release) Television is just what most consumers relate to when they talk about that big screen in... Read more | | Android for your datacenter Could a 7-inch tablet become your go-to management tool? Read more | | Google's legal victory: Judge stops federal agency from jumping on Microsoft's cloud Google scored a legal victory this week when a judge blocked the U.S. Department of the Interior from deploying a new cloud-based e-mail system from Microsoft. In November, Google sued the U.S. government, crying foul over language in a Department of Interior Request for Quotation (RFQ) that specifically requires Microsoft’s Business Productivity... Read more | | CES: Microsoft shows off Surface 2.0 Microsoft officials demonstrated an updated, thinner version of the Surface multi-touch tabletop computer at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on January 5. Read more | | Top 10 Android Apps for the Samsung Galaxy Tab I grabbed a Galaxy Tab when it first appeared on the market and it has become a powerful tool for me due to an assortment of good apps. Here is a list of the top 10 Android apps I use on my Tab. Read more |
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