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Alibaba, a China based internet business and a major player in online commerce for small-time businesses have come out with their very own operating system - AliYun - that launched not but a month or so a go. The new OS that can already be found on the K-Touch Cloud Smartphone W700 (with Tegra 2) will now have its own tablet. The upcoming AliYun OS-base tablet will be out within the next couple of months, and will have English support, so good news for all you China-tab lovers from overseas. Find out more about the OS after the break.
You might not have heard of AliYun, or you may be one of the 22,000 Alibaba employers that knows all about it, but if the former, the OS is heavily based on cloud computing. It also runs Android apps and HTML 5 and web apps support. As for the tablet
The HP Touchpad and its recent slash in price has made this tablet a steal, but now it gets even better with the tablet being able to run Android OS. The example we've got here is of Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread from a CynogenMod update. You can check out the video after the break showing the OS booting up on the HP Touchpad.
It won't just stop with Gingerbread however as other platforms are expected to bring Android 3.x which for a USD$100 tablet with a dual-core processor and good quality touchscreen, isn't bad at all. Of course with customised tweaks, you're always going to run a risk so it's better to wait until updates have been finalised. Developers are actually working on an apparent touchscreen driver issue, focusing on making it much more responsive. So it looks like the the
Apple and Samsung have been going at it for a little while now, with Apple suing Samsung for the alleged copying of what Apple is trying to patent as the 'tablet look', with Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1. Well it looks like things are going a bit out of hand as Samsung are now using a reference taken from a 1969 film as a means of defense. The film: Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. The reference: read after the break.
The clip from the film that Samsung are using in their defense has the film's actors using a tablet-like device, which Samsung are saying are generic tablets and therefor claiming Apple did not create the classic tablet look. This is of course the same design Samsung are using for their Galaxy Tab 10.1, and pretty much almost every other tablet out there. And wit
Last weak saw the unveiling of who Tabco are and what they've been banging on about. It turns out that Tabco are in fact Singaporean based company, Fusion Garage who are responsible for bringing us the Joo Joo tablet, and the devices in question are a 10-inch tablet - the Grid 10 - and a 4-inch smartphone - the Grid 4 - both of which have a unique operating system called Grid OS. If you happened to have missed the unveiling and live-stream showcasing the devices then check out the video we have here that shows us what the Grid 10 looks like, and how totally awesome Grid OS is. Check it out after the break.
The video shows how incredibly thin and slick the tablet looks, with only one criticism from us - the slanted back. We reckon the tablet would have looked better if it was straigh
Better late than never with this piece of new: the unveiling of who Tabco are and what they have was revealed on Monday the 15th. We started off with a slew of viral videos and updates over the internet about the new name and product, but all is now revealed. Tabco is in fact not Nokia who was at the top of the guessing list, nor Microsoft or HP - they are Fusion Garage, a Singaporean company that brought us the JooJoo tablet. As for what the tablet is that they've been promoting all this time - find out after the break if you don't already know.
The device Tabco have been suggesting to be the tablet above all others is a 10.1-inch, NVIDIA Tegra 2 powered tablet by the name, Grid 10. As for its OS - no, it doesn't use MeeGo - is actually uses their own OS called Grid OS, which is
After all those teaser trailers, viral videos and everything else that raises the question, "who is Tabco", the countdown to the official reveal of who they are, and what their tablet is is nigh. They will be launching a live stream of the product announcement which you can find here, as well as finally letting us know whether they are in fact Nokia, Microsoft, HP, or any other major company, if any at all. So if you've been following up on Tabco and their many mysterious and fun antics, set an alarm for the reveal time, as there's only a couple of hours to go!
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From yet another teaser video from the mysterious Tabco, we can deduct two points of importance - one being more solid than the other. The first and the official of the two would be the stated reveal date of whatever it is that Tabco has behind their curtains: the 15th of August, 2011. The second point, and the one that's more of an assumption than anything officially revealed is that the 3 columned notification area shown in the video resembles that of MeeGo's 3 column notifications feature - another Nokia link. But there are more reasons to think why Tabco is in fact Nokia, after the break of course.
Another link to Tabco and Nokia would be in an update on the official wearetabco twitter page in which they were asked if they were Nokia, to which tabco replied with a simple "mayb
We take yet another step closer to that "beam me up, Scotty" future with the introduction of tablets on our shopping carts. SK Telecom have installed tablets into shopping carts in the hopes to aid your shopping experience by helping you find items as well as the best deals and coupons for what's on your shopping list. The test-run carts are used in Lotus supermarkets in Shanghai, and not only will it make for shopping for groceries much more fun, the tablets also provide information on what you're buying, and can sync you shopping list data from your smartphone onto the tablet. If Shanghai shoppers enjoy these smart carts enough, we may be bumping cart heads from distraction at our very own supermarkets!
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It looks as if that may be the case. According to a report from DigiTimes, Industry sources have been qouted on the company's involvement with Taiwan based companies, Novatek Microelectronics and Richtek Technology, as well as Capella Microsystems and Integrated Memory Logic. With the aid of these companies, Apple are hoping to come out with a low-cost slate housing low-cost hardware with the exception of one: the high-costing Retina display that may be used in the slate. Read more after the break.
Apple are aiming to balance out the overall cost of the new tablet from the high cost of the display with the low cost of its circuits and other cheaper parts. This will allow Apple to compete with other cheaper-than-the-iPad slates such as the Acer Eee Pad Transformer and other Acer ta
Tabco are are at it again with another viral video - this time they tackle the Empire State Building. The video shows a group of, well... trespassers, breaking into the building and hacking its lighting system in order to display the name TABCO, as well as a presumed release or announcement date - August the 15th. Read more and watch the video after the break.
Tabco seemed to have also up the quality of acting as we can't tell whether this is actually real or another bedroom rehearsed performance. We have blogged about their other (bedroom rehearsed) viral attempts before that have 'hinted' at a new tablet that's definitely not by Apple, HP, Blackberry nor an Android tab. This points towards the new tab possibly being Nokia's upcoming MeeGo tab. Why Nokia? according to MyNokiaBlog,
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