Fresh details of Microsoft's massive new advertising campaign are coming forth, and there is an important form factor that is set to be left out: the tablet. Yes, it appears that Microsoft...

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Adobe hit a home run with its free drawing utility launched along with the original iPad in April 2010. However, it did not see to do much beyond release utility type apps for the iPad since then. It looks like this is about to change. Adobe announced, but has not yet released, a set of sophisticated apps for Android tablets and the iPad in the near future.Adobe Touch Apps familyEach of the apps is priced at $9.99 except for Adobe Ideas for iOS ($5.99).Adobe Photoshop Touch: Transform images fre [...]

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Nvidia has announced that Android tablets will be equipped with quad-core processors before the years end. According to Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO of Nvidia, the high-end computing tablets featuring quad-core processors will hit the shelves before Christmas this year.

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Tumblr, the high flying free micro-blogging service, recently issued a minor update to their Android app. While the bug fixes are important to people experiencing problems with the app, the bigger news is at the end of the blog items announcing the release that provides a near future road map for the app.Tumblr Android 2.0.2Here's what Tumblr says is in the works for a future release of Tumblr for Android:- Dashboard landscape viewing mode. The Dashboard is the main view for the app.- The abilit [...]

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Reprinted, in part, from my post on Google+. (Lots of comments over there). HP announced today that it is withdrawing the TouchPad from the market, which calls into question the future of webOS. First, so far Dieter Bohn has the best article on how HP failed that I've seen so far. The photo I put [...]

Read More: Microsoft’s Windows 8 wins in HP’s surrender of webOS but will users support Windows tablets?

Google News implemented a few tweaks to become more tablet-friendly for owners of iPads and Android devices.

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Skype's developers certainly have been busy. They released Skype for iPad earlier this week and released an update to Skype for Android today.Skype 2.1 for Android enables video on majority of Android devicesThe version 2.1 update shows the progress Skype's developers have made in dealing with Android's increasingly worse platform fragmentation problem. This update adds video calling support to 17 more Android devcies includin gthe HTC Evo 3D,HTC Flyer (tablet), Samsung Galaxy S & S II as w [...]

Read More: Skype for Android 2.1 Adds Video Calling Support for 17 More Phones and Tablets

Ever since Amazon announced the Kindle eReader device, there has been speculation about whether Amazon would provide a subsidized version. It took a while, but recently Amazon started selling the Kindle with Special Offers, which is a Kindle that you can buy for $114 that displays special offers and sponsored screensavers on the Kindle screensaver and on the bottom of the home screen. Today the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News newspapers announced a pilot program in which they w [...]

Read More: Are Subsidized Tablets On The Way?