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Now that the tablet niche is established as a big slice of the pie a lot of manufacturers are starting to take advantage of tablets by launching accessories (like cases, covers, peripherals), and lately, tablet companions. It's a good way to bring more money to your headquarters and the latest companies to join this trend are Seagate and Samsung.Let's start with Seagate, essentially a storage company, that announced it's going to announce a new companion for Apple's iPad 2. Yeap, they've ann...

With the growing interest in touch input options even desktop computers have started offering this option. MSI is one of the  players in the All in One Desktop segment, and just announced what could possibly be the world's first Sandy Bridge A-I-O, a 20 inch model with 1600 x 900 pixels resolution. It's not the best system out there, but for some having a 24 inch screen on their desk it's too much.So, the focus on MSI's latest Wind Top AE2070 is clearly not on performance but complete funct...

Adobe is one of the companies not really found of the iPad, since Apple decided to exclude Flash support from its tablets and advocating a world that has to get past Flash to HTML 5. That doesn't mean Adobe is not trying to get into the iPad world with various apps related to its Creative Suite (the one with Photoshop).Today Adobe announced it will launch three iPad apps, at the beginning of May, that will interact with the Adobe Photoshop software installed on your computer, making your iPa...

I still remember the ads from TV that promote BlackBerry App World: they show a bunch of people sharing photos from their RIM device, writing emails, searching for locations, you know, the stuff any smartphone does today, and then they slap the "only in Blackberry App World" phrase at the end. I can't imagine me being one of the guys paid to say those lies on TV.... But anyway, let's move on to the real news of this Friday: indeed Blackberry Playbook will support Android apps at launch.This...

Sprint is one of the proud owners of a 4G network in US, and it's a shame not to take advantage of it, so their latest 4G WiMax device announced today at CTIA 2011 is the HTC EVO View 4G, a tablet previously known as the HTC Flyer.So you get the same 7 inch tablet with a different name and a few bundled apps you like or hate (Blockbuster On Demand, Sprint entertainment software). That's pretty much the only difference from what we've seen at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month....

One of my favorite convertible tablet PCs of last year is the award winning Lenovo X201t, a very tough tablet with lots of features, industrial design and powerful specs. Now Lenovo has presented the X220t, the new model that makes the switch to a 16:9 screen aspect and 12.5 inch diagonal screen. I know, I know, tablet PCs are not cool anymore, but this one is: it's under 4 lbs weight and manages to last up to 16 hours when paired with a slice type battery that attaches to the bottom of the Leno...

It's March 2nd, the day Apple announces the second generation iPad tablet, called simply iPad 2. If in 2010 the iPad was the only 'serious' tablet on market things are a little bit different in 2011, when a lot of Android slates are taking over the iPad in terms of sales and media attention. The iPad now faces serious competition, which demands a new generation ipad. Now it's time for Apple to gain back ground with iPad 2. Let's see what Apple has prepared for this year. Is it all we've dreamed ...

It's interesting to see how desktop now get inspiration from mobile devices like tablets, with the latest Sony L series All in One desktops featuring edge to edge touch gestures. This means you're not limited to touching the surface of the screen anymore, as the screen bezel also acts like a touch navigational device. It's the most interesting part of the L series All in One Desktop series, allowing you to launch the Sony Media Gallery (by touching the Sony logo) or zoom, navigate inside documen...

I believe HTC made a pretty smart move yesterday, presenting its tablet at MWC 2011 after all other major brands did it, making sure they have enough attention from press people to get their product exposed to consumers. The name of their 7 inch slate tablet is HTC Flyer, just like we've anticipated a while ago.What HTC managed to do with the Flyer is individualize their product from the mass of Android tablet presented at MWC: it's a 7 inch slate, not a 10 inch, runs on Android 2.4 (minor u...

Acer is still struggling to bring a tablet to market, but at least they're continuing the R&D process, showcasing new tablets at MWC 2011: the 7 inch Iconia Tab A100, and 10 inch Iconia A500 and W500. It's strange to look at the naming scheme chosen by Acer, that has nothing to do with screen diagonal, but at least 'A' stands for Android and 'W' for Windows.Acer released few specs about those three tablets, but had working samples as their booth, running previous Android versions, not th...