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Microsoft Montage Creates New Ways To Publish[Video]

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As people discover content on the web -- articles, tweet streams, images and more -- Montage creates an easy way for them to aggregate that selected information into a web page. These pages live on the Montage site and can be embeddable as well.



CES 2011: Springpad Smartly Organizes Your Info[Video]

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Springpad lets you take information, organize and classify it, and then, through a network of affiliate services (like Netflix, for example) provides more actionable information -- say a movie review, or when a band is coming in concert.




CES 2011: Synaptics Adds More Fingers To TouchPad Gestures[Video]

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At CES, TechWeb's David Berlind learns about the newest technologies to come from touchpad maker Synaptics. These include the support of more complex gestures (involving up to 10 fingers) as well as better accuracy to prevent accidental gestures.



CES 2011: SugarSync Synchs Documents Across PCs, Smartphones, and Cloud

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TechWeb's Fritz Nelson gets a demonstration of how SugarSync uses the cloud to automatically keep files perfectly in sync across multiple devices including most smartphones, PCs, Macs, and the cloud.



CES 2011: 64GB On Your Fingertip[Video]

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TechWeb's Fritz Nelson sits down with Sandisk to discuss the ever shrinking footprint of memory and how that's not just benefitting notebooks and tablets in the way of SSDs (solid state drives), but also smaller devices like smartphones.



CES 2011: Vizio Launches a Tablet, a "Superphone," and More[Video]

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TechWeb's Fritz Nelson learns how Vizio is broadening its horizons into tablets and phones. Not only does it continue to release new TVs, it also has a single user interface that scales across its TVs, and its new Android-based tablet and phone.



CES 2011: ActionTec Wirelessly Distributes HD Video[Video]

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Gina Smith hears about ActionTec's Wireless HDMI transmitter that lets you transmit your HD video content throughout your house. $199 for the pair (receiver and transmitter). Available in May/June 2011.



CES 2011: Cisco Launches Multi-Device Competitor To GoogleTV [Video]

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At CES, Cisco launched Videoscape; a family of products and services that consumers will get from broadband service providers. Videoscape organizes disaggregated video content from across the Web and cable TV and delivers it to you wherever you are.




CES 2011: Motorola's Atrix 4G is Powerful Enough to Run its own Laptop [Video]

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Motorola's Atrix 4G is a dual-core 1GHz platform smartphone that powers it's own laptop docking station to bring WebTop to life.




CES 2011: Cyberlink Speeds Up Video Editing Suite With 64-Bit Support

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TechWeb's Dan Resciniti (who edits a lot of TechWebTV's videos) gets up close and personal with Cyberlink's latest video editing suite: PowerDirector 9. Cyberlink says its reliance on 64-bit computing and the GPU are what make PD9 a lot faster.




CES 2011: Android-based Car Stereo Integrates With Internet, iPods And More [video]

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Parrott is in Las Vegas at CES 2011 showing off an Android-based car stereo called Asteroid that, via 3G, can make Internet services available to the dashboard. It also will playback music from an iPod or iPhone via Bluetooth.




CES 2011: Hybrid Notebook Lenovo U1 and tablet LePad presented officially

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Lenovo has officially unveiled the tablet LePad operating system Android 2.2. Remember, this model was in a separate product from the hybrid notebook IdeaPad U1 and repeatedly recycled and, finally, appeared in the final version.
CES 2011: Hybrid Notebook Lenovo U1 and tablet LePad presented officially



Lenovo LePad - a tablet with a 10.1-inch touch screen with a resolution of 1280x800 pixels. It is built on 1.3 GHz Chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon, equipped with 1 GB RAM, 16/32 GB internal flash memory, wireless modules Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 3G (WCDMA and EV-DO), and 2 megapixel web camera.
CES 2011: Hybrid Notebook Lenovo U1 and tablet LePad presented officially

Thus, for LePad proposed dock IdeaPad U1, which will turn it into a full-fledged mini-laptop based on the operating system, Windows 7 Home Premium and energy efficient CPU Intel Core i5-540UM clocked at 1.2 GHz. Also among the characteristics IdeaPad U1 - Integrated Graphics Intel HD, 2 GB RAM, 320 GB hard drive on and the USB ports and HDMI. Issue IdeaPad U1 and LePad held in the first quarter of this year, first in China. The cost of both products starts at $ 1300, but the tablet can be bought separately, at least for $ 520.


CES 2011: RIM's PlayBook Tablet Gets First Public Preview [Video]

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CES 2011: RIM's PlayBook Tablet Gets First Public Preview

Although it has made a few public appearances to give early adopters a taste of what's to come, RIM hasn't let the public get up close and personal with its forthcoming PlayBook tablet. But here at CES, the Blackberry maker came out of the closet.