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Another day, another Android tablet, though unfortunately this is a Tegra 2 slate that, for the moment at least, you won't actually be able to buy. ODM BYD is showing its new Alice design, an 8.9-inch WSVGA slate running Froyo on NVIDIA's second-gen Tegra 250 chipset. As well as WiFi, Bluetooth and all the usual sensors, Alice has a useful [...]

The real-life housing market might be in the dumps, but a Hollywood real estate mogul is making a killing in the virtual world. Jon Jacobs, aka "Neverdie" in the massively multiplayer Entropia Universe, just sold a virtual nightclub for the actual price of $635,000. Proceeds from the sale will fund Jacobs' virtual planet-building ventures, which could in turn create actual [...]

A prototype Sony Ericsson ANZU – aka the XPERIA X12 – has dropped into the hands of Mobile-Review, and they've given it a thorough (some might say pessimistic) preview. The XPERIA X12 has a 4.3-inch 854 x 480 capacitive touchscreen, and is powered by the 800MHz Qualcomm MSM7230 chipset seen on the T-Mobile G2/HTC Desire Z. In this case it's running [...]

Palm chief Jon Rubinstein has blamed a shortfall in resources for the company squandering its "birthright" to the smartphone market, an omission it seems has quickly been addressed since the acquisition by HP. Speaking at the Web 2.0 conference, Rubinstein said that "we've actually pulled a couple hundred people out of HP and made them part of Palm. We're using them [...]

We all know about the LG Optimus One series of devices from the popular device manufacturer. It's an entry level Android device that can be found free almost anywhere, and if not- very cheap. Well it seems that the Optimus One is now the quickest selling LG device. Hitting just over a million units sold in just 40 days, and [...]