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JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION

LG TV named best gadget; Microsoft bows out in style

Technology Jan. 13, 2012 - 02:16PM JST ( 6 )

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OLED TVs do not require backlighting and feature better color contrast than standard flat-screen LEDs

Nokia's Lumia 900 runs on Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 operating system

An Android-powered tablet computer from Taiwan's Asus, the Asus Memo 370T, was named best tablet at the CES

Microsoft says it is bowing out of the show because the timing does not coincide with its product development calendar

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6 Comments

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ElvensilvanJan. 13, 2012 - 03:19PM JST

BlueStacks provides access to the hundreds of thousands of Android applications.

So ... MicroSoft has made an interface software to tap into the competition's applications market?
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shirokuma2011Jan. 13, 2012 - 04:09PM JST

I dunno, a 55-inch TV costing thousands of dollars hardly sounds like a "gadget" to me...

I thought Snapykey's "invisible keyboard", a completely new interface for text input on mobile devices, was pretty cool.
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LagunaJan. 13, 2012 - 05:42PM JST

Pretty excited about this whole ultrabook concept - will wait for the kinks to be worked out and the prices to come down. Elvensilvan, Windows 8 was designed with the ultrabooks in mind - apparently it is a cross-platform OS designed to compete with some of the stuff Google's been developing. Competition is a very good thing!
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FadamorJan. 14, 2012 - 12:15AM JST

So ... MicroSoft has made an interface software to tap into the competition's applications market?

Google probably won't complain too much. The apps that are not free are still going to have to be purchased through Google's Android Market. Google still gets their pint of blood and apps developers don't have to learn a THIRD OS to program for.
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Elbuda MexicanoJan. 14, 2012 - 02:09AM JST

Hmm...dozens of new TABLETS to rival the Apple Ipad?? This sounds like good news to me!
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VicMOsakaJan. 14, 2012 - 10:43AM JST

After comparing all the TV's the other day at Midori, I would be quite happy with a Sharp LED model. I am amazed at how cheap the LED TV's are now compared to what the old type were selling for several years ago.