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India's $35 Aakash Tablet Comes Apart

Months after India's healthily anticipated $35 tablet was first unveiled, its owners are embroiled in a spat that is raising questions about its future.READ»

Tablet Users Spend 50% More Per Purchase Than Smartphone Owners

Tablet users spend over 50% more per purchase at online retailers when compared with smartphone visitors, and 20% more when compared with traditional laptop and desktop visitors, according to a study that Adobe released today.READ»

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Zipcar Targets Europe With Barcelona Car Sharer Buy, PayPal To Launch Daily Deals In 2012, Google Buys Alfred

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. READ»

Amazon's Kindle Fire: A Mega, Meta Mash-Up Of Reviews

You could wade through dozens of reviews of the new Amazon Kindle Fire--or let us extract the best bits for you. Here's the most meta version of the story you will read online, offline, and everywhere else, each line taken from professional reviewers, tech bloggers, Tweeters, and Amazon customers.READ»

Nook Tablet Kicks Off Flame War With Kindle Fire

The Nook Tablet debuted today with a boatload of features--1GHz CPU, 11.5 hours of battery life, 16GB of memory, 1GB of RAM--all for $249. Plus, Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch suggested on Monday that every unit comes with a free helping of Amazon smack talk. READ»

Infographic Of The Day: What Do People Want From A Tablet Computer?

The typical way to figure out what consumers want is to go out and do a survey. Or stay in and conduct focus groups. But Method, the design and branding agency, set out to do something a bit more interested when Dell commissioned them ...READ»

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Virgin's "Project" Magazine Editor Anthony Noguera Takes Content Users On A Journey

Media companies aren't the only ones in the content-providing business these days. Meet Anthony Noguera, editorial director of Virgin's tablet magazine, "Project."READ»

The I-Slate: A Low-Cost Tablet For Kids In The Developing World

This tiny tablet can be powered by the sun, and dramatically improves a student's abilities to learn math.READ»

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HP's Dead TouchPad Claims No. 2 Best-Selling Tablet Spot

How'd HP do it? Seemingly by just slashing the price to $99. But even at bargain basement prices, consumers want usability. For other also-ran tablets who aspire to nip at Apple's heels, there's a lesson here in finding the sweet spot between price, design, and function. READ»

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Skype WiFi On iOS, Amazon's Government Cloud, Samsung Tablet Ban Scaled Back, Best Buy's HP TouchPad Pile, HTC Suing Apple Again

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.READ»

A Sneak Peek At Amazon's New Tablet

Amazon's tablet PC has now all but been confirmed for an early fall launch. Here's roughly what the arrival of the device will mean, based on the information we have--and can guess at. READ»

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Obama's Twitter Townhall, AP To Open N. Korea Bureau, N. Korea To Open Photo Exhibit In NYC

The White House takes to Twitter for a townhall. Plus: AP news agency would be the first permanent Western-run photo and text bureau ever to operate in the North Korean capital and 100,000 reasons to buy an iPad. Breaking bits from our news-obsessed editors, updated all day. READ»

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iFive: LulzSec Hacks CIA, Facebook's Anti-iOS Plans, Location Privacy Bill, U.K. Shuns PlayBook, Bloomberg Immigration Plea

Today's the day that Adam Smith was born, IBM was incorporated, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space, and rocket pioneer Werner von Braun died. But that's the past...here's today's news:READ»

Nintendo Crashes The Tablet World With A Game-Changing Entrance

Body-enveloping 3-D virtual environments come to everyone's living room with Nintendo's new Wii U controller.READ»

Behold The Leaked TouchPad--HP's Response To The iPad

It's been partly hidden for months, hotly anticipated since HP bought Palm and ditched its plans for a Windows tablet, and now here it is via a completely unofficial leak: TouchPad, HP's response to the iPad.READ»

Amazon Tablet Rumors, Sarkozy Vs. Web Geeks, Plastic UPS Trucks, And More...

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iFive: Microsoft Shuts Thinktank, Orange's NFC In U.K., Apple Signs Sony To Cloud, Google Translates Books, HP TouchPad $599

Did you know Friday's named for Norse God Odin's wife, the goddess Frigg--queen of Asgard with prophetic powers? Interesting stuff. As is our summary of the early news:READ»