If you think about it, this means that every hour over 5 thousand people bought the Kinect. Impressive numbers indeed, but the story doesn’t end there. Today marks the day of an even bigger achievement for Microsoft, as the company announced that they have sold their 10th million Kinect. Not only that, but along with them they sold over 10 million standalone games specially designed to makes use of the sensor, too.

In comparison, Kinect’s main rivals – the PlayStation Move and the Wii with its Wiimote can’t brag about their sales so much. PlayStation’s Move sense controller sold merely 4.1 million units for roughly 2 months (from September 20 last year, when it was launched, to November 30). And as far as the Wii goes, Nintendo reported back in January that it sold 7 million units in 2010, which doesn’t seem too good, compared to the 10 million consoles it shipped in 2008.

With a dual-core processor and webOS’s card-based multitasking, the HP TouchPad will eat those older tablets for breakfast...

The TouchPad uses a 9.7” touchscreen with 1024×768 (hello, iPad) and at its heart beats a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon APQ8060 ticking at 1.2GHz. The Touchpad will surely need the extra power with its convenient multitasking and Flash 10.1 support in the browser.

There will be 3G-enabled models (data only), which will pack a GPS receiver, and another version with neither 3G or GPS (hello, iPad again). Interestingly, there will also be a 4G LTE version, most obviously, a nod to Verizon.

Wi-Fi b/g/n is supported either way, as is Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP. The HP TouchPad has a front-facing 1.3MP camera for video calls, but no camera on the back. A 3.5mm audio jack, stereo speakers and something that HP calls Beat audio engine will tale care of the audio department. There will be two options for the internal memory – 16GB and 32GB.

All that gadgetry is packed inside a 240x190x13.7mm body weighing 740 grams (those are almost the exact dimensions of the iPad). There’s a hefty 6300mAh battery feeding the dual-core CPU and big screen (HP is mum on battery life though).

Check out this promo video of the HP TouchPad.


The Touchstone technology is interesting – it lets the TouchPad and a compatible phone share a web page, or even transfer an SMS or phone call from the phone to the tablet. No complex set up is required, you should only put the phone over the tablet while the tablet is on its charging Touchstone dock.

The HP TouchPad supports wireless printing too (with a compatible HP printer) and there are some accessories, including a wireless keyboard and a stand that charges the TouchPad, also wirelessly.

The HP TouchPad is coming this spring with a yet unannounced price.
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What’s novel about the two new all-in-one TouchSmart computers from HP is that they can have their screen recline to help with touch usability (it’s awkward to touch control a vertical monitor). The TouchSmart 9300 Elite has a screen, which reclines to a 60-degree angle, while the TouchSmart 610 supports only a 30-degree recline of its screen.

Now for the juicy specs. Both the 9300 Elite and the 610 enjoy a 23-inch LED backlit 1080p screen and can pack up to 16GB of DD3 RAM.

Powered by a range of Core i3 through Core i7 processors and running on Windows 7, the TouchSmart 9300 Elite (pictured above) is primarily aimed at business users. Its main idea is to be placed in kiosks, hotels, banks and other public places. It supports up to 1TB hard drive or an optional 160 GB SSD and as far as graphics goes, gamers won’t be pleased, since both the 9300 Elite and 610 run on integrated Intel graphics chips.

Behind the long screen are six cameras and 16 infrared lights. When you touch the screen, a small amount of infrared light is reflected back and the cameras sense the position and then translate that into coordinates on the surface. It is curved over 135 degrees, thereby creating an immersive environment.

No, you can’t have one. And yes, it would be great stoned.

But what you can have is here, Check out the Sanyo Flat Screen TV Reviews.

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The last decade has been pretty intense technically. More than two billion people are using the Internet compared to the 400 million ten years ago. The cellphone subscriptions have also risen to 5 billion – five times more compared to the 1 billion subscriptions in year 2000, according to the International Telecommunication Union.

Five billion subscriptions don’t actually mean five billion users, but I think it’s safe to say that nearly half of the planet uses mobile phones.

On the other hand, 2.08 billion people use the Internet – 940 million of those have mobile broadband subscription, while 555 million have a fixed one.

The world’s population is on the verge of reaching 7 billion. The tech invasion is nowhere near its end and it won’t stop until every single person on the Earth is connected in some way. This is the part where you put your tin foil hats on, ok?

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Who wrote such an odd and seemingly drunken message? Well, if you believe the page, Zuckerberg himself did. Shortly after posting, the post had over 1,800 likes and nearly 500 comments.

Obviously, Zuckerberg didn’t actually write it. Or at least, we’re pretty sure he didn’t. Instead, it would appear that his fan page was hacked. Facebook has now taken down the page — but not before we grabbed a screenshot.

We’ve reached out to them asking what exactly is going on. We’ll update when we hear back.

"The page is back on and live again, the problem is now resolved by the facebook engineers"

According to City AM HTC will be revealing a couple of Android handsets carrying the Facebook logo. They will be high-end devices with specially modified interface, that will bring the Facebook integration to a new level. Using your friends profile data to write an email or call them is among the rumored features.

Update: Facebook has just issued another public statement, denying they are working on such phones. They did confirm that HTC are making use of some new API to extend the Facebook integration in their upcoming smartphones. Those devices won’t be carrying the blue F logo, though.

As far as Facebook’s very own handset is concerned we can’t say anything about the hardware, but the source provides a sneak peak at some of the unique software features of the device. The Facebook phone is said to come with very little internal memory, relying fully on cloud storage for most purposes. As you can imagine a data plan would be vital with the thing.

The phone will come with a camera and your photos will automatically be uploaded to the cloud too. Facebook also has plans for some location-sharing GPS service that should presumably rival Google Latitude and Foursquare.

The final two features mentioned are the common message inbox, combining all your messages (though you can filter them by type) and an interesting service that will push shopping coupons automatically to your phone based on your location and interests.

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The original Samsung Galaxy Tab is now available on the UK site of the company for a mere £360. That’s decidedly not bad for a device coming with a 7” SVGA screen, 1GHz Hummingbird chipset and 512 MB of RAM. Plus Samsung promised to update the Tab to Android 2.3 Gingerbread and 3.0 Honeycomb eventually.

And yeah, there’ll certainly be much better deals in six months time, but are you really willing to wait that long? If not, follow the source link below.

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The report by Canalys makes an interesting case – with screens of 7” and up, enough processing power to multitask and rich selection of apps, tablets have a rightful place in the sales numbers for computers, so the Apple iPad and the Samsung Galaxy Tab were included in the statistics.

The iPad is pushing Apple forward in a similar way to the netbook push that ASUS, Acer and Samsung enjoyed these last few years. Apple has leapfrogged Dell and Lenovo, placing third with 11.5 million shipments and 10.8% market share. The company also posted a staggering year-on-year growth of 241% (and enjoyed a profitable quarter), while the other companies were in the 10-20% range.

Regional growth is also interesting – Central and Eastern European market for desktops, laptops, netbooks and tablets grew nearly 40% year-on-year, while Western Europe saw the lowest growth of nearly 11%. Latin American and Asian-Pacific markets also had notable growths.



Canalys predicts that the increases in the VAT rate, coinciding with waiting for the refreshed lineup from Intel, will result in significant discounts of the current-gen computers in the UK, Poland, Latvia, Slovakia and Switzerland.

Read the full press release for some more info and thoughts on the computer market.