Today, on the first day of the yearly Computex Taipei exhibition in Taiwan, Asus took the wraps off the Android tablet/phone combo it teased last week. Dubbed Padfone , Asus is relatively mum on details (specs, pricing, availability) at this point. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : CrunchGear Discovery Date : 30/05/2011 12:35 Number of articles : 3
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We just got to spend some quality time with ASUS’ newly unveiled Padfone and you can see the smartphone that doubles up as a tablet on video after the break. It’s still a mere mockup for now, but ASUS has big plans for it — plans that coalesce around the Christmas period and the very latest version of Android at that time. ASUS’ Benson Lin was careful not to openly admit the company intends to ship with Ice Cream Sandwich , but he did point out that you can’t launch a smartphone with Honeycomb as the OS. We were encouraged to draw our own conclusions. The smartphone is actually the only smart aspect of this hardware pair — the slate part acts as a display, a set of speakers, an extended battery, and an I/O extender, but it doesn’t work by itself. ASUS also tells us there’ll be other functionality enabled by the tablet panel, but that’s being kept under wraps for now. Compatibility between the display dock and subsequent phone generations is being contemplated but couldn’t be confirmed, and as to the UI, ASUS says it’ll be almost the same as its second-gen Android tablets. You heard that right, second generation ASUS Android tablets — to succeed the Transformer and Slider — will be coming around the same time as the Padfone. Gallery: ASUS Padfone first hands-on Continue reading ASUS targets Christmas, Ice Cream Sandwich for Padfone launch (video hands-on) ASUS targets Christmas, Ice Cream Sandwich for Padfone launch (video hands-on) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 May 2011 06:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Race leacer JR Hildebrand crashed in the final turn of the Indy 500. Dan Wheldon drove on by and took the win Sunday, with Hildebrand’s car sliding across for second place. (May 29)
Continue reading …Race leacer JR Hildebrand crashed in the final turn of the Indy 500. Dan Wheldon drove on by and took the win Sunday, with Hildebrand’s car sliding across for second place. (May 29)
Continue reading …PBS aired its annual National Memorial Day Concert from the West Lawn of the US Capitol Sunday evening. The nationally televised performance is a tribute to America’s servicemen and women, and their families. (May 29)
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ASUS is starting off its bevy of Computex announcements with the new Eee PC X101, a netbook that gives the 11-inch MacBook Air a run for its ultrathin money, while running either Windows 7 or, wait for it, Meego ! Check out its scarlet construction in the gallery below or jump past the break for our video hands-on! Gallery: ASUS Eee PC X101 hands-on Continue reading ASUS brings out extra skinny Eee PC X101 running MeeGo (video hands-on!) ASUS brings out extra skinny Eee PC X101 running MeeGo (video hands-on!) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 May 2011 03:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Upgraded Childhood of the Day: JR Hildebrand may have lost the 100th Indy 500 to Dan Wheldon after crashing into the wall with one turn to go, but over at the life-size Hot Wheels V-Drop, Top Gear’s Tanner Foust nailed a world record-setting 332-foot jump in a modified Pro 2 truck. Those two things may not be directly related, but they both happened. [ mashable .] Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily What Discovery Date : 29/05/2011 23:57 Number of articles : 4
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Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Shultz (D., Fla.) “explains” the Democratic “plan” to save Medicare from impending bankruptcy: Step 1) Demagogue the Ryan plan (it “throws seniors to the wolves,” etc.), Step 2) … Smith : But the Trustees also said a couple of Fridays ago that this thing (Medicare) could be insolvent in the next decade. Doesn’t something really dramatic have to… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Corner Discovery Date : 30/05/2011 01:16 Number of articles : 3
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The first dual-core Android tablets only arrived in February, but Nvidia is already showing off an improved quad-core chip it expects in tablets by August. A video demo of the chip, codenamed “Kal-El,” shows impressive performance: enough that some consumers may wait to buy a tablet. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : GigaOM Discovery Date : 30/05/2011 05:00 Number of articles : 5
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — JR Hildebrand was one turn away from winning the Indianapolis 500 on his very first try. Then, within sight of the checkered flag, the 23-year-old Californian made the ultimate rookie mistake. Hildebrand slammed into the wall on the final turn, and Dan Wheldon drove on past to claim an improbable Indy 500 win Sunday in his first race of the year. Wheldon, the 2005 winner but without a full-time ride this season, appeared headed for his third straight runner-up finish as Hildebrand took the white flag with a comfortable lead and needing only to make it through the last of 200 laps around the 2 1/2-mile speedway. WATCH: The first three turns went smoothly. Then, Hildebrand came up on another rookie, Charlie Kimball, in the fourth turn. Instead of backing off, Hildebrand slid to the outside, got in the rough patch of the track and lost control. He slammed the wall, allowing Wheldon to drive into Victory Lane. “I caught him in the wrong piece of track,” Hildebrand said. “I got up in the marbles and that was it.” Hildebrand’s crumpled machine slid across the finish line in second place while hugging the wall. While Wheldon celebrated, IndyCar officials reviewed the video to see if Wheldon passed the wrecked machine before the caution lights went on. It appeared he did, giving the Brit another Indy 500 title with a part-time team. “I just felt a lot of relief. It’s an incredible feeling,” Wheldon said. “I never gave up.”
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