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Rumors of an iPad Mini have been making waves for a long time now, and for a good reason. With the rise of 7-inch tablet popularity, which began with the Amazon Kindle Fire, and now the Google Nexus 7, Apple has no choice but to consider taking on the market despite Steve Jobs once saying, "7-inch tablets are dead on arrival."
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If you thought Rovio was running out of ideas for Angry Birds, think again. Rovio recently teamed up with NASA to offer Angry Birds fans, a Curiosity Rover-themed episode of Angry Birds Space. Players will be thrown into Mars where they will launch birds at pigs while learning more about Curiosity and its mission on the Martian landscape.
The France-based tablet maker ARCHOS unveiled its latest line of tablets - the Gen10 XS. Initially, a 10.1-inch model -101 XS - will hit the shelves in mid-September. The 10.1-inch tablet will be followed by 9.7-inch and 8-inch devices before the end of 2012.
Facebook Inc. finally launched a faster mobile version of its popular social networking site on Thursday, Aug. 23, appeasing users unsatisfied with the Facebook app for iPhones and iPads. The social giant said it rebuilt the application from the ground up rather than adding a set of new features, thus making it speedier and less clunky.
Online retail giant Amazon is planning a big event on Sept. 6, summoning the media but staying mum on details. "Please join us for an Amazon Press Conference," reads the full text of the invite sent out to the media. The event will take place at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, where the timing seems perfect for a new line of Kindles, including a new Kindle Fire tablet.
The Facebook iOS app received consistent criticism for its lagging performance and failures to update notifications consistently. Facebook earlier in 2012 said an update would arrive around June 2012 and, while a month later, the social network delivered an update based on HTML5 while completely overhauling the performance.
Microsoft has big plans to release its Windows 8 based Surface tablet this year, and there is no doubt the Surface tablet will find success. As you may already know, there are two versions of the Surface, one that runs on Windows 8 RT, and the other, which is more powerful, runs on Windows 8 Pro. That said, only one version of the Surface will gain massive success, and we believe it could likely be the Windows 8 RT version.
Amazon.com Inc sent out invitations on Thursday to a September 6 press conference near Los Angeles, re-igniting speculation about possible new tablet devices from the world's largest Internet retailer.
Samsung Electronics Co's flagship Galaxy smartphone looks very similar to Apple's iPhone, but the South Korean firm has not violated the iPhone design, a Seoul court ruled on Friday.
Flickr recently saw a major update arrive for the iOS app, and now Android users have access to the refresh also. Version 1.5 brings UI improvements.
Two new Android devices launched on Tuesday, Aug. 21, bringing Google's Ice Cream Sandwich to gadgets other than smartphones and tablets. The first device will hit the UK as a touchscreen-based laptop/netbook for students, while the other will launch in the U.S. as a USB stick-shaped mini PC.
Google's first tablet, the recently launched Nexus 7, is expected to touch the 8 million units sales mark by the end of this year. The mammoth 8 million figure estimates will likely give rival tablet makers sleepless nights as Nexus 7 stakes its claim in the consumer market.
Between the hotshot designers and brainy engineers Apple Inc questioned for three weeks in the company's bitterly fought patent battle against Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, a marketing expert from MIT took Apple's lawyers all of three minutes.