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Acer's new 10-inch Android tablet will be available Jan. 15 in the U.S., so if you don't want to wait for the new iPad, you might want to head over to your local mom and pop electronics center and get your hands on one (Okay, corporate chain electronics store).

Reddit.com, the wildly-popular online community, received 2.07 billion pageviews in December 2011 alone, capping a year in which the site's traffic doubled the hits it received in 2010.

Online game developer Zynga Inc is releasing a new mobile word game called Scramble with Friends on Thursday to expand its user base beyond Facebook and catch up with rivals in the handheld market.

The white Samsung Galaxy Nexus is expected to hit stores in the UK in the next two weeks and the U.S launch will follow in early February, according to Expansys.com.

The ASUS Transformer Prime Eee Pad tablet has had a critical week, first launching with severe delays then failing on GPS performance, but ASUS has finally announced some good news; the bootloader, which is currently locked, will be unlocked sometime in the future.

Elan Microelectronics Corp, a Taiwanese touch design company, said on Thursday that Apple Inc will pay $5 million as part of a settlement in a patent infringement case.

Apple Inc. is expected to release iPad 3 anytime in the next two months, as reports and analysts forecast suggest February to March time frame.

HTC Amaze 4G, which was released in October for T-Mobile, is expected to face immense pressure from Samsung Galaxy S2, which is considered to be the best Android smartphone yet.

Google's patent portfolio just got stronger. The software corporation managed to acquire over 200 patents from IBM Corp.

Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime has hit stores with high expectation especially with its Tegra 3 quad core processor. However users have become disappointed to find that Asus has unveiled the Prime tablet with bootloader locked.

ASUS' Eee Pad Transformer Prime, the first tablet to have the NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor, is currently the most discussed and also the most pre-ordered device using the Honeycomb Android OS.

The news about Sony's surprising decision to drop the price of its Tablet S by $100 soon after the launch has fueled rumors surrounding the price tag of Apple's next generation iPad.

Asus has made the announcement that it will commence the roll out of the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet from next week. It has also announced the imminent release of a bootloader unlocking tool.

In 2012, a big clash between Google, world' largest Internet search engine, and Facebook, world's No.1 social network service, is being predicted.

Chronic Dev Team member pod2g has an interesting New Year gift for his fans - the French hacker has uploaded his blog with juicy details of Corona, the untethered jailbreak for non-A5 devices that are running on iOS 5.0.1, but many of his followers did not appreciate his hard work and criticized him instead for not releasing A5 jailbreak yet.

The highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S3, which is expected to unveil at the World Mobile Congress in February, could launch an entry- level cheaper model, according to a report obtained by Planet Insane.

The Galaxy Tab 10.1 was first released in February. However, at that time Samsung showcased a rather bulkier frame, measuring 10.92 mm thick. Later, Samsung changed the case to an ultra-thin one - 8.6 mm thick and weighing a mere 565 grams.

Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Note - a device that is neither a phone nor a tablet but a happy combination of both - in October.

Intel are expected to provide a glimpse of their Clover Trail-based prototype tablets at the Consumer Electronics Show.

The Asus Transformer Prime, which is arguably the best tablet existing, is receiving updates with camera, GPS and glitch fixes according to the latest report.

The highly anticipated ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime has arrived with a major flaw: a locked bootloader.