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Asus announces $149 MeMO Android tablet

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas may be over, but it does not mean news and product announcements come to an end. Asus waited until today, perhaps to avoid the avalanche of other announcements, to unveil its new MeMO Pad -- a seven inch Android 4.1 tablet that will be released soon. The MeMO Pad will run Android 4.1

Polaroid announces two Android tablets

Polaroid grabbed a lot of attention this week when it announced an Android camera, but the company did not stop there. It also unveiled two new Android tablets -- both a 7 and 10 inch version. The company chose to post no official press release, however press representative Melissa Hoistion referred me to the company's web site. That resulted in no

D-Link Cloud Cameras and Routers at CES

D-Link announced at CES today a range of IP cameras and routers with cloud connectivity for remote monitoring and viewing. The two new cameras are the Cloud Camera 1050 (DCS-931L) and Cloud Camera 1150 (DCS-933L) which come with remote monitoring as standard via mydlink and mobile devices, but also offer new capabilities such as audio detection with image alerts based

The Notebook that Doubles as a Tablet

What's better, a tablet, or a notebook? The answer to that question often is based upon what tasks you need to preform. Typically, a notebook is better if you want to type a blog or write a paper. A tablet, with it's touch screen, is better if you want to play certain games. What if you want to do some

Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7” Inch Widescreen Tablet

Over the Christmas holiday my nephew showed up at my house with an Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7” Inch tablet. My Mom, who just turned 88, ended up playing with it and decided she wanted one. So, we stopped by Best Buy and picked one up. I spent some time adding free apps from the Amazon Android Market that I

ARCHOS Puts the “Hands-On” Back in Gaming

Some of you, who are at least as old as I am, remember when playing a video game meant using a joystick. When I was younger, I spent a lot of time playing video games on various consoles. While it wasn't the same experience as using the joystick that came with the earliest video game consoles, (or the ones in

Eason Fails to Sell eBooks via Billboard

...or "Why DRM is killing ebook sales outside of Amazon or Barnes & Noble". Being a international superstar and global jetsetter*, I had the pleasure of passing through Dublin's Connolly railway station today. In the atrium there was a billboard display of book covers complete with QR codes. "Totally cool," I thought. Scan the QR code, buy the ebook, download