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Way back in March 2011, Google published a survey showing that 43% of tablet owners spend more time with their tablets than their TVs or PCs.
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In all, 43% of tablet news users say their tablets are adding to the amount of time they spend with the news and 31% say they are getting news from new sources they didn't use before.
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Oprah put the tablet on her list of favorite things in time for the Holiday season, along with Beats by Dre earbuds and a Josh Groban album.
Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility allows it to move into the manufacturing of phones and tablet computers for the first time.
Google's takeover of the business allows it to move into the manufacturing of phones and tablet computers for the first time.
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Apple sent out invitations to a special event on Oct. 23 feeding speculation CEO Tim Cook will finally introduce a smaller-screen version of the popular iPad tablet and make it available in time for the holiday shopping season.
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This is even more important for those purchasing a new type of product, such as a tablet, for the first time.
That's the quandary we tackle in this edition of our weekly tablet mag as Brian Heater spends some quality time with the MakerBot Replicator at Engadget's NYC Headquarters.
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Meanwhile, HP after all this time told us nothing about pricing of the tablet, there was no mention of carrier partners and there are no assurances that the platform is going to attract robust support from developers.
" Shows an image of Moses with a tablet with the quote, from the WSJ "last time there was this much excitment over a tablet, there were some commandments written on it.
Some TV executives and analysts suggest that online video, tablet computers and wider use of digital-video recorders could be pulling prime-time viewers to other places and times that aren't counted in prime-time usage figures, although many also caution it is too early in the TV season to draw any broad conclusions.
Finding the optimal layout involved minimising the moving time of the thumbs and enabling typing on alternating sides of the tablet.
Tablet, laptop, DSLR and smartphone options all make the list of frugal links this time around, so there's sure to be something to investigate just past the break.
If these companies are right, it is only a matter of time before the car could directly compete with the phone and the tablet to be the biggest smart industry.
On the flipside, however, it's a huge fingerprint magnet, and we had a difficult time lasting more than a few seconds before cluttering both sides of the tablet with our fingerprints.
Not content with offering up merely modular Android tablets, ASUS has revealed a new seven-inch tablet that's water and dust resistant -- perfect for a spot of bath-time browsing or... desert rallying.
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It isn't the first time we've heard of Alcatel's One Touch Evo 7 tablet, but the company's using today as an opportunity to spill new details and announce a souped-up version of the slab.
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With the huge influx of card battlers on the market it may be time to wonder about the future of the genre itself as mobile and tablet offerings shift toward longevity and games as a service.
If you buy a Windows tablet, that's probably what you're going to see and use most of the time.
These low-ball bids occur just at the very time that American consumers are moving swiftly to a choice of myriad smartphones and tablet devices that use vastly more bandwidth than simpler phones do.
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For the purposes of whittling down a potentially long list of Windows 8 options, we're going to assume that if you're considering the XPS 12, that means you like the idea of a powerful, full-fledged laptop that can also be used in tablet mode from time to time.
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And, in light of the momentum in the smartphone and tablet space, the growth is likely to continue for some time.
McNierney acknowledged that most customers may bypass the hand cranks but he insisted they are usable. (Six minutes of hand-cranking should produce an hour of run-time.) To test the feature, the organization took out the tablet batteries to see whether the devices could run just by hand crank.
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