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Notebook manufacturers are gearing up to produce Intel Ultrabooks as thin and light notebook alternatives to netbooks and tablets. But will these be able to compete with the Apple MacBook Air in terms of pricing and performance? The recently-released Acer Aspire S3 gets reviewed, and here are some first impressions.

Borders has filed for bankruptcy and liquidation, and its online assets are now being taken over by Barnes & Noble. If you’re a Borders.com user, you can get a free membership, discounts to B&N and $25 toward your purchase of a Nook Color with a paid membership.

Amazon’s upcoming Kindle Fire tablet will be released in a few weeks, but the device is already raising questions on legality and ethics due to its use of a cloud-powered web browser, Silk.

The Amazon Kindle Fire might be under fire from a patent lawsuit, but it doesn’t mean it’s not doing well. In fact it’s especially excelling when it comes to sales, so much so that it has set a record in terms of preorders. According to an analyst that tracks the [...]

Google Android Honeycomb might be bringing developers the most money even if the number of apps optimized for it is small, but it might actually be the least selling Google Android OS yet. Larry Page divulged during Google’s financial results recently that 190 million devices have been activated in total.

Just because iOS 5 brought us iCloud doesn’t mean we can’t make use of other cloud storage services. Box.net, for example, gave out a free 50GB of storage space to all iOS users recently. Another option is Dropbox, which works a bit differently but is just as effective. And now, [...]

Apple has had a great week so far, not only because of its important product launches, iOS 5 and iPhone 4S, but also because of its minor but important victories against Samsung in its gigantic legal battle against the South Korean company.

The iPhone 4S has been launched in seven countries today and Apple will start selling it in even more international markets in the following months. The handset has been sold in over 1 million units since the first pre-order day, and plenty of its buyers will want to jailbreak it. [...]

Google is reportedly planning to build more self-driving cars, and is currently in talks with major automotive companies on partnerships and for actual production of the vehicles.

We have seen some rumors and leaks and even an early sighting of the Motorola Xoom Family Edition tablet, however the good news as of today — Motorola has made it all official and dropped the good word by way of press release. That being said, while it is always [...]