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The latest incarnation of Honda’s Asimo robot has been unveiled, with a better design, and new hand sensors for delicate tasks. Many of the new features have been designed to allow better coordination with the environment, using what Honda claim is the “world’s first autonomous behaviour control technology”.
Barnes & Noble has officially launched its Nook tablet, which is likely to provide the biggest competition for the Amazon Kindle Fire. Designed as a multi-use tablet for music, reading, media, and Internet use, the Nook tablet will be available “by the end of the week”.
HP has unveiled the 3115m notebook, a different take on the Pavillion dm1z for the business market. While marketed mostly towards business users, the 3115m also features Beat Audio branding and a few other consumer-style features.
The latest phone in the HTC range is called the Rezound, a 4G smartphone with Android Gingerbread that operates on Verizon’s 4G LTE network. Featuring slow motion video and an audio system made in collaboration with Dr. Dre, the HTC Rezound also has a few tricks up its sleeve.
Samsung has become the number one smartphone vendor in the world, moving past Apple and Nokia in the third quarter results. However, according to figures released by Canalys, when the United States results are isolated, HTC have the number one spot.
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Ubuntu Linux is about to reach out to tablets, smartphones, and TVs, in what seems a determined, if very late, entry to the market. With Ubuntu already leading the way with Linux distributions in desktop PCs, it will be interesting to see what they can bring to other devices.
