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Sony’s clamshell tablet, the Sony Tablet P, has gone on sale in the UK, with it, bringing a pretty heavy price tag of just under 500. The Tablet P packs a Tegra 2, dual 5.5-inch screens and sports Android Honeycomb 3.2.    The Tablet P also includes Sony’s PlayStation certification, like the Tablet S has. Sony also claims that the styling will make it more comfortable to hold sideways for reading books, but most would be put off by its very unusual design.  Sony have timed the release of Tablet P right in time for the launch of ASUS’ Eee Pad Transformer Prime which packs the deliciously awesome Ice Cream Sandwich OS. Bu Read more…

SITEX 2011 begins today. Although it is raining cats and dogs, it didnt stop us from traveling almost an hour to the eastern Singapore to check out what is new at the show.

This year, the SITEX 2011 day 1 seems to be quite quiet. The event spans 3 halls and we dont see the usual crowd as compared to last year.

Major brands were there, mostly selling notebooks. DIY components are no where to be seen as usual. In fact, the floods in Thailand has resulted in a shortage of HDD. The usual cut throat price of USB 3.0 portable HDD is no where to be seen.

Tablets were not everywhere. The big brands like Acer, Sony, Samsung, Asus, Viewsonic are all promoting their tablets.

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In what has to be the shortest press release in the history of IT, Quest Software announced that it had acquired VKernel, which peddles a capacity management, optimization, and chargeback system for VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors.

Quest says that VKernel – based in Boston, Massachusetts – would be operated as an independent subsidiary. An S3 filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission outlined an equity incentive plan for VKernel to retain key employees and to attract new ones.

Such acquisitions are nothing new for Quest. The company started out in 1987 peddling high availability tools for HP proprietary minicomputers, expanded a decade later into Oracle database tuning tools, and soon thereafter went public – and the acquisitions started and haven’t stopped. Havin

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The Pentagon on Thursday held a successful test flight of a flying bomb that travels faster than the speed of sound and will give military planners the ability to strike targets anywhere in the world in less than a hour. Launched by rocket from Hawaii at 1130 GMT, the “Advanced Hypersonic Weapon,” or AHW, glided through the upper atmosphere over the Pacific “at hypersonic speed” before hitting its target on the Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands, a Pentagon statement said. The US Army’s AHW project is part of the “Prompt Global Strike” program which seeks to give the US military the means to deliver conventional weapons anywhere in the world within an hour. The “hypersonic glide body” of the U.S.

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