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Intel Corp. has announced that its tablet specific Atom Z670 processor which brings in improved battery performance and enhanced video capabilities is now available.

Adobe said a critical vulnerability has been found in certain versions of its Flash Player that could allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

AMD is hiring Android driver development engineers, a move that reflects the chipmaker's big push in to the tablet and smartphone space with the help of Android.

In order to take on Apple's slimmer and lighter iPad 2 Amazon announced the launch of a cheaper Kindle which lends its screen space to advertisers and sponsors.

Speaking to what the firm calls key component suppliers, Avian Securities believes that the next iPhone won't begin production until September.

Google is working towards crafting a tablet version of its light-weight, browser-based Chrome OS in its attempt to act as a catalyst to trigger creation of quality web apps to counter apps created for closed-walled companies like Apple and Microsoft.

Gartner estimates point to Apple's iOS grabbing nearly seventy percent of the market in 2011, a command that won't noticeably decrease until 2015, when it will drop to 47 percent.

Apple's iOS operating system will continue to dominate the worldwide media tablet through 2015, research firm Gartner said.

In Pulse, a Y Combinator-backed startup, has introduced a wrist watch that has computing and phone operations. The bluetooth-enabled watch can also display all email alerts, SMS messages.

Adobe has launched subscription editions for its new Creative Suite 5.5, a collection of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications including Photoshop, Acrobat and InDesign.

The current mobile landscape may dramatically change within the next few years as current leader Research in Motion tumbles in market-share, and Android and Microsoft come to dominate.

Priced lower than any tablet in the current market, Acer Iconia A500 is a direct hit for Xoom and iPad 2. Xoom had the advantage of being the first tablet running on Honeycomb, the latest android version.

Specifications for the device are almost identical to competing tablets: 10.1-inch screen, dual cameras, Android based operating system - with one main difference: its price.

Android 3.0 or Honeycomb-based 10.1-inch tablet from Acer called Iconia Tab A500 is now available for pre-order at Best Buy.

Taiwan smartphone maker HTC Corp said first-quarter profit almost tripled, beating forecasts, driven by strong demand for its handsets, particularly those running on the Android operating system

Mobile apps can can leach immeasurable amounts of data from personal smartphones and sell them to advertising platforms. The news about data pilfering apps is nothing new, but there is now fresh evidence that large quantum of data are passed on from smartphones to advertisers by some apps.

Echoing a pair of previous leaks, the newest images of the as yet-unannounced smartphone depict a device in very much the same vein as its predecessor

HTC Evo View 4G has a good competitor in BlackBerry PlayBook 4G

HTC, the Taiwanese phone maker, surpassed Nokia in market capitalization yesterday, putting it in the ranks of the largest mobile phone makers in the world.

Motorola's Xoom was crowned the undisputed king of tablets at CES 2011 but little did Motorola realize that the spotlight would last only a month.

Though, Xoom has comparable features and pricing to the high end version of Apple's iPad 2. The question now becomes, will the high end of the tablet market keep pace with the low end?