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Does This Ultrabook Make Me Look Fat? CES 2012 And The Tyranny Of Thin

If 2012's CES gadget fest has a theme already it's "thin, thinner, thinnest." But in the endless quest for skinny devices, what gets left out?READ»

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How Much Can Asus, HP, And Others Rip Off Apple's Designs?

Apple's competitors are mimicking the company's designs on everything from tablets to laptops. There's short-term benefit here for consumers looking for inexpensive Apple alternatives this holiday season. But more significantly, it demonstrates how much Steve Jobs's legacy has impacted device makers--and how lost they'd likely be without Jobs's vision.READ»

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The Tablet Wars: More Makers Join The Search For The Pricing Sweet Spot

How low is low enough for you to consider a non-iPad tablet? $299? $199? Zero?READ»

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What Google Gobbling Motorola Mobility Means For The Way We Think About Smartphones

While the tech world focuses on the strategy behind Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility, we take a look at what the move means for the way we think about our smartphones, and the way they work.READ»

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Inside Intel And Toshiba's Social Film

"Inside" stars Emmy Rossum, Intel, and, maybe, you. We go behind the scenes of the latest branded filmmaking adventure.READ»

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HP: TouchPad's WebOS Threatens Android, Apple iOS

With the TouchPad, the culmination thus far of HP's $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm, the world's largest technology company by revenue hopes it can finally offer a formidable competitor to Apple, the world's largest technology company by market cap, in the race for tablet dominance.READ»

Toshiba Creates Thrive Tablet With Lollipop Colors, Bloatware

Pluses of the new Toshiba Thrive tablet: laptop-like functionality and ports, with sherbet-colored, nonslip back panels. Negatives: bloatware. Lots of bloatware. READ»

New Gadget Mantra: The Screen's The Thing

We're used to fairly similar LCD screens on pretty much all our mobile gadgets and TVs. That's all about to change.READ»

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Will the iPad Blast Apple's PC Market Share Past HP and Dell?

You may be surprised to find that in the PC market, Apple isn't even in the top 4 in the US, nor top 5 worlwide. How come it can't catch up to HP and Dell--not to mention Acer, Lenovo, and Toshiba?READ»

3-D or Not 3-D -- That Is the Question (at CES).

At CES this year the sweet smell of 3-D was everywhere. The marketing so pervasive, the screens so sexy, you could almost be forgiven if you forgot just how murky the path to 3-D in the home truly remains. READ»

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Would You Buy Toshiba's Glasses-Free 3-D Laptops?

With its new glasses-free 3-D technology, Toshiba is trying to show that 3-D is just a feature on your laptop, no different than having an HD screen, a DVD burner, or a Wi-Fi connection.READ»

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Toshiba Unveils First Solar-Powered E-Reader

Move over, Kindle and Nook. A newer and greener e-reader is inching into your market. READ»

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Google TV Delayed: Partners Sony and Toshiba React

Google TV was set to make a big splash at next month's Consumer Electronics Show--until it got poor reviews. Here's what consumer electronic giants Sony and Toshiba think of the setbacks.READ»

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Toshiba Debuts First Glasses-Free 3-D HDTV for Consumers

Toshiba's just unveiled a range of glasses-free HDTVs, which it's saying are the first units of their type to be aimed at the consumer. Will Jo Public leap at the chance to watch 3-D movies without specs?READ»

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Why Don't We Care About 3-D TV?

Sales of these high-tech TVs are sluggish, according to Best Buy -- and the big box giant is pointing the finger of blame at electronics marketers.READ»

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Yahoo's Three-Year Plan to "Bring Cool Back"

Yahoo's new set of goals hit all the company's beats: A revamped Yahoo Mail, an iPad app, connected TV, better search, and more social networking. READ»

Toshiba Solves the Awkward 3-D Glasses Problem

Toshiba's new technology could end the awkwardness of watching 3-D television.READ»

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Toshiba's Trio of New Laptops Includes a Dual-Screen, Windows 7 Oddball

Toshiba's Libretto W100 is one of the oddest computers in recent memory: two 7-inch touchscreens that can operate either independently or together. It's certainly unusual, but is it enticing? It's one of three oddball laptops introduced today.READ»

Bill Gates-Backed Nuclear Power Startup, TerraPower, Gets $35 Million

Nuclear power, that oft-maligned source of clean energy, got a boost earlier this year when TerraPower announced plans to team up with Toshiba to build a hot tub-sized traveling-wave nuclear reactor. Now TerraPower is moving even ...READ»