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Amazon's Excellent Tablet Adventure

As 2011 winds to a close and 2012 begins, we do a little bit of Fast Company drumbeating. We predict a lot of stuff around here. Sometimes we're wrong. But we also nailed a few things this year. Earlier we described how Amazon's tablet plans should unfold to make it a success...READ»

Amazon's Kindle Fire Is Built To Blaze Through Amazon Purchases

Amazon's Kindle Fire has its hardware and software shaved down to a bare minimum and woven together in a delicate mesh. But even Fire's weakness strengthens Amazon. READ»

Microsoft And Samsung Try To Make Bill Gates's Tablet Dreams Come True

With Samsung tablet hardware smarts, and Windows 8 innovation, it's possible Bill Gates's decade-long desire for Microsoft-powered tablets will soon be a reality. Now, can they catch on with consumers?READ»

4 Details Amazon Must Nail With New Kindle Tablet To Make Apple Sweat (A Little)

Amazon is poised to release a tablet that may be the strongest rival for the iPad yet. But if it is to sell in meaningful numbers, Amazon has to get a few things exactly right.READ»

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Justice Dept. Files Complaint To Block AT&T-T-Mobile Merger, Sony's 3-D Projector Goggles, HP Plans Final TouchPad Run

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

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Twitter's Photo Galleries, India's $99 Tablet, Skype Buys GroupMe, Apple Outsells Lenovo In China, Amazon Hints At Tablet

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

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Hey MySpace Employee: Justin Timberlake Just Fired You

After much speculation, MySpace is sold--apparently Justin Timberlake teamed up with Specific Media for the $35M purchase. It's the latest breaking bits from our news-obsessed editors.READ»

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iFive: Nintendo Profits Tank, Lenovo's Honeycomb Tablet, White iPhone 4 With A5, SpaceX Mars Plans, China's Investment List

Start the week how you mean to finish it--informed and ready first thing in the morning, with our early news piece, iFive:READ»

Samsung's Anti-iPad 2 Policy: Clone the Heck Out of It

In what may be a perfect "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" maneuver, Samsung has just revealed its answer to the iPad 2--a new set of Galaxy Tab tablets. They're pretty much clones of Apple's offering.READ»

Apple's iPad 2 Event Rumor Roundup: What Can We Expect?

With the tech world practically on pause before Apple reveals all about it's iPad 2 refresh tomorrow, we've rounded up the best rumors for you to work out what Apple may actually deliver:READ»

iPad Rumor Round-Up: Thinner, Faster, In-Production, Same Old Screen Resolution

The iPad 2 rumor mill just got a seriously big spin thanks to data from what we suspect to be an "official" leak channel for Apple--the Wall Street Journal.READ»

iPad Rumor Round-Up: SD Cards Again, Display Connector, Dual-Core Graphics, Super-High-Res Screen?

Apple's iPad 2 must surely be imminent: The rumor mill is spinning so fast that new nuggets are flying out of it seemingly every hour or so. We've gathered the latest and greatest for you.READ»

AT&T Sells iPads Direct to Businesses, Boosts Apple's Tablet Onslaught

Apple's iPad is already seeing fervent adoption by business folks the world over. But AT&T is giving the 3G version of the tablet a boost by selling it direct to business users via its enterprise tariff scheme.READ»

Why the "Warm And Cuddly" iPad Isn't Eating Netbook Market Share ... Yet

A new survey says the Apple machine is an "incremental" purchase for most consumers -- meaning they're not replacing old laptops. But once they cuddle up with an iPad at bedtime, all bets are off.READ»

BlackBerry PlayBook: Everything You Want to Know

RIM revealed its tablet yesterday, but you've probably got some questions. How's it compare to the competition? Who'll buy it? Why did RIM make it, and announce it now? Here's everything you wanted to know, and more. READ»

RIM Unveils 7-Inch BlackBerry PlayBook, It's All About Enterprise

It's here: After months of teasing, RIM's revealed its iPad rival. Except it's targeted at Enterprise customers. Or so says RIM anyway. Meet the PlayBook. READ»

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Is the iPad a Notebook Killer?

August was an awful month for notebook PC makers. Sales growth, slowing since the iPad arrived, has slipped into negative numbers. But has Apple cursed the industry, or is the story murkier than that?READ»

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Samsung Ditches Its E-paper Tech Efforts, but Retains E-publishing Plans

Need any evidence that the dedicated e-reader is destined to become a mere niche-appeal device? Here you go: Tech giant Samsung is ditching its clever, and long-heritage e-paper business. READ»

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Those "iPad Mini" Rumors Make Sense

Rumors often turn out to be so much hot air, but there are enough nuggets of info now that make the 7-inch "mini iPad" almost believable.READ»

Indian Tablet Gets TV Demo But Is Still Hard to Believe

India's $35 tablet PC effort just got a another spot in the limelight on Indian TV, with the Human Resource Development minister demoing the ultra-cheap device. We're still skeptical.READ»