Purported Images Of Upcoming Nexus Tablet Leaked, Features Quad-Core Tegra 3 CPU, Android 4.1 And More

Google’s Nexus movement is set to get into sixth gear later this year, with reports suggesting five different smartphones landing on November 5th. To add to the rumor mill, images have surfaced which claim to depict a Nexus tablet. Often, such images are doctored or faked, so while we’re taking it with the proverbial pinch [...]

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Opinion: The 18-inch Windows 8 Tablet that could crush the iPad

Goliath 18-inch tablets might seem laughably awkward beside the 9.7-inch iPad, but the right user interface could make devices this size work both at home and away. When I say “crush the iPad,” I mean literally. Because at 18 inches diagonally, the Asus Transformer AiO tablet revealed at Computex this week likely weighs more than [...]

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3M’sTom Mercer Discusses Smashwords Partnership at BEA

3M Cloud Library was set up in the BEA Digital Zone to talk about its library lending offerings, but the real news from 3M lately was the recent partnership with Smashwords that puts the ebook distributor’s titles in the catalog for libraries to choose from. Currently, public libraries are struggling with trying to implement digital [...]

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Tablets and smartphones are turning handheld gaming devices into a niche

A new study from ABI Research found that Sony and Nintendo are struggling against the rise of smartphones and tablets in gaming. The two companies are expected to ship more than 38 million handheld gaming devices in 2013, a number significantly lower than the previous peak of 47 million units in 2008. Shipments after 2013 [...]

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