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It looks like Apple is flexing its muscles again as they maybe asking one of their manufacturers, Pegatron, to drop new Ultrabook orders from ASUS or face loosing orders for iOS devices. According to an article in Chinese-language Commercial Times… - Netbooknews

At CES 2012 Intel played up the fact that they are working on Android smartphones powered by a 1.6 GHz, Atom Z2460 processor, codenamed Medfield. We saw both a reference design from Intel as well as pre-production version of … - Netbooknews

Earlier rumors surrounding when the iPad 3 announcement might be held only said sometime in early March, with a possible release date a week or so later. Rene Ritchie from iMore is now quoting “sources who have been reliable in … - Netbooknews

ThinkGeek recently announced a new addition to their iCade line of retro gaming products, the 8-Bitty Bluetooth wireless controller for Android and iOS devices. It looks like a mashup between a NES and SNES controller with a bit of Atari … - Netbooknews

At Toy Fair 2012 in New York, Oregon Scientific introduced their MEEP! Android 4.0 tablet for kids aged 6 and up. So far this seems to be the first kid-oriented tablet that’s based on Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich. Although … - Netbooknews

Just three days ago we reported on a photographic evidence of Android 4.0 running on a Nokia N9. The photo was tweeted by developer Alexey Roslyakov, bringing attention to the NITDroid project to get a dual-boot MeeGo/Ice Cream Sandwich … - Netbooknews

Of course, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab products are getting an upgrade to Android 4.0 soon, but in the meantime, Samsung decided to release the Galaxy Tab 2, which ships with Android 4.0 from the start. It’s a bit of a … - Netbooknews

Toshiba has a great line up of Netbooks, but for what ever reason in Japan they have seen an up grade the Toshiba NB520 to the latest Cedar Trail Atom CPU, the N2800 with out adding an HDMI port.  Intel’s … - Netbooknews

F1 2011 for the PS Vita is a racing game with great visual details with complex driving physics and rules that are ideal for motor racing experts. The game play is challenging enough that novices will need some time as … - Netbooknews

Insider information apparently leaked out around the number of iPad’s sold in South Korea in 2011 totals 1 Million units sold.  In late November 2010 held a whopping 700,000 iPads shipped leaving the remaining 300,000 to have been sold in … - Netbooknews

Shuttle is known for their budget Nettop line up and they haven’t disappointed with three new editions being released all running the Intel Atom D2700 clocked at 2.13GHz. These new chips has a maximum TDP of 10W and does not … - Netbooknews

In case you missed it Chinese courts rejected Apple’s claim to the iPad trademark and they are now facing a $1.6 Billion lawsuit from Proview.  As apart of this lawsuit government officials in Shijiazhuang raided an unnamed Apple reseller … - Netbooknews

Cedar Trail Netbooks are starting to finally hit the streets and we’ve got a new one from Gateway. The LT4004u features a dual-core Atom N2600 CPU at 1.6GHz with GMA 3600 graphics, 1GB RAM, a 250GB HDD, and a 6-cell … - Netbooknews

Sony is going through some changes in its upper management with Kazuo Hirai stepping in as their new President and CEO. During a Q&A in Japan AV Watch reports that Hirai was not shy about pointing out that the Playstation … - Netbooknews

Acer is never one for big fan fare around software updates, so the silent roll out of Ice Cream Sandwich onto their newly released Acer Iconia Tab A200 Android tablet isn’t surprising.  Especially since Acer did announce that they expected … - Netbooknews