The Motorola Xoom tablet has won the Cnet CES 2011 Best in Show award today, beating out a plethora of other tablets, smartphones, HDTVs and more.
Motorola’s powerful tablet will ship with a 10.1-inch display, 1280×800 resolution, a Nvidia Tegra 2 1GHz dual-core processor, 1GB DDR2 RAM, 32GB onboard memory (expendable via SD), a 5MP dual-LED flash standard camera and a 2MP front-side camera for video conferencing.
Furthermore, the tablet has a micro USB 2.0 port, HDMI-pout, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and run on the tablet-optimized Android 3.0 Honeycomb.
Battery life has been rated at 10 hours (peak) for video playback.
Motorola has allegedly already ordered 800,000 units of the device for the Q1 2011.
The 3G-supporting device will launch in February or March while the LTE 4G model will launch in the Q2.
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The RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) have seized 7000 pirated video games from a 35-year old Saskatoon man’s residence and charges are currently pending.
RCMP officials say, if sold authentically, the games would be worth $200,000.
The citizen had his house raided following an investigation “into intellectual property crime offences,” adds the police.
More specifically, the authorities were looking into the sale of gaming consoles that were modded to be able to play pirated games.
The man had been advertising the modded consoles via online ads.
Authorities noted that the plethora of games and consoles including systems from Nintendo, Sony, Sega, and Microsoft.
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Google has acquired the Web start-up Angstro this week while also moving co-founder Rohit Khare to the Google team.
The search giant has been in an acquisition frenzy over the past few months, purchasing a plethora of sites and services that will help their upcoming assault on the social networking world and its champion Facebook.
Khare is a respected Internet researcher and entrepreneur.
Earlier in the summer, Google purchased the social gaming siteSlide, while recruiting its founder Max Levchin to become a VP of engineering for social media efforts. Levchin was the co-founder of PayPal.
Google has also invested $150 million in social gaming market leader Zynga.
The social networking service, dubbed “Google Me” internally is still in “stealth mode” and Google will not publicly discuss it.
Google versus Facebook has become a hot-topic in the tech world, with many believing Facebook will soon start its own advertising network to rival Google’s AdSense, while Google prepares its full assault on the social networking world.
