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…
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If you want to participate in the kickoff of the holiday shopping season without feeling too much like a market-driven drone, check Small Business Saturday with the help of these social networking tools.
Between Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the unending onslaught of online deals, there is another holiday shopping day that might get lost in the shuffle: Small Business Saturday. This year marks the second annual such event, a new tradition that tries to steal some addition from chain retailers and big e-commerce sites and give it to local vendors.
And this year, the fledging ritual is getting some serious attention from social media sites.
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.
Warner Bros. has released its international trailer for Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.
With a questionable cast, and a decidedly trite storyline, I haven’t been expecting much from this title, but the new trailer certainly sparkles.
Technically, the film is a sequel to the 2008 Journey to the Center of the Earth with Brendan Fraser, but has very little continuity with that film, other than the idea of seeking out a strange and dangerous part of the planet to find a lost loved one. T
Next month we see the first release of the Raspberry Pi $25 PC in kit form. The final units will follow in 2012. They aren’t the only ones developing a tiny PC though, and competition is starting to appear that could equal it on size and outperform it in the performance stakes.
One such competitor is called Cotton Candy and is set to be offered by Norwegian company FXI Technologies. Inside a USB stick that measures 8 x 2.5cm and weighs just 21 grams, FXI have managed to cram a 1.2GHz ARM Cortex A9 processor, 1GB RAM, an ARM Mali-400MP GPU, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, HDMI, USB 2.0, and a Micro SD card reader supporting up to 64GB cards. T