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After three months, the Kindle Fire has an equal share of the Android tablet market with the Samsung Galaxy Tab, and has already outstripped the Motorola Xoom, Asus Transformer, and Acer Iconia Tab.

This year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas generated a lot of Tablet News, especially in the New 7-inch Tablets arena.

Samsung, Asus, Acer, Toshiba, ViewSonic and a host of others appear to be committing to the 7-inch form factor.

IT World: "As if to back up the contention by Google's Android boss that the tablet version of Android isn't being penned in so Google can keep control, PC-maker Asus released part of the source code yesterday."

Well, there's really no choice but to give it up for Bigfoot Networks. The company that was simply selling standalone Killer gaming NICs a few months ago now has a bunch of new partnerships under their belt, with an integrated NIC/GPU on the market, a mainboard deal with Asus and now, a motherboard deal with another huge vendor: Gigabyte....

ItrunsOnLinux: "ASUS plans to develop an educational robot for kids called the EeeBot that uses software based on Google's Android mobile operating system."

Mathaba: "9.10 has several issues with newest ASUS laptop UL range, whilst 9.04 works flawlessly on these new laptops"

ZDNet: "A popular laptop theft-recovery service that ships on notebooks made by HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Gateway, Asus and Panasonic is actually a dangerous BIOS rootkit that can be hijacked and controlled by malicious hackers."

Now that I live off-grid, having one laptop (plus a low-powered server) rather than four desktops running all the time is clearly the right thing for me.

My current "fleet" of laptops includes some IBM ThinkPads (from T20 to T23) and my ASUS Z3300.

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Khaotic Musings: "I can't say I share this surprise. At no point did Asus switch sides."

it's better without windows: "Microsoft and ASUS recently launched a website to promote Windows on the ASUS EeePC.

Traditionally, ASUS has installed their own customized Linux distribution on these machines. ASUS didn't do a very good job with that distribution, and thus customers believed the machines didn't work very well."