Pandas, East Asia, wood. Nope, “laptop” hasn’t ever been on the list of words we typically associate with “bamboo,” but ASUS sure has us willing to tack it on with the introduction of its U Bamboo Series

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ASUS U33Jc-A1 Bamboo series review

Using copper cables to transfer data around a computer? Get your head out of the sand, Grandpa! Intel thinks that’s on the outs and is touting its recent accomplishments with Silicon Photonics and integrated lasers, using light pulses to move data at 50Gbps (last time we heard Intel tout the tech was when it hit 40Gbps speeds in 2007 )

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Intel’s 50Gbps Silicon Photonics Link shines a light on future computers (video)

Still pining for one of the best Windows 7 tablets we’ve seen to date?

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ExoPC nabs improved screen and e-book app, still on track for a September release (video)

We hear so many iPhone-Verizon-tomorrow-OMG rumors that our nation’s brave also-ran carriers hardly get a word in edgewise. While Sprint remains a total longshot, T-Mobile USA is an interesting proposition for the mere fact that it’s a GSM network, though its 1700 / 2100 3G network remains ostensibly incompatible with the iPhone 4’s existing radio. According to Cult of Mac , a “highly placed source” at T-Mobile let it slip that they’ve got an 80 percent chance of getting the iPhone in Q3.

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iPhone headed for T-Mobile USA in Q3?

Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together? Or when a rumor plays out perfectly ? We’re looking at a case of the latter here today, as HP ’s oh-so-lovable 12-inch TouchSmart tm2 is now available to order with a Core i5 processor.

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HP TouchSmart tm2 gains Core i5 CPU option, a whole new level of respect

Android 1.5 and 1.6 are still major players in the field, together accounting for some 41 percent of all Google-powered phones in use as of July 15 — but for the first time, Android 2.1 is on significantly more than half of the phones out there, up from an even 50 percent in mid-June . 55.5 percent of devices are running Eclair to be exact, and Froyo also makes an appearance with a little sliver of 3.3 percent — an anemic figure obviously hampered by the fact that no one outside Google itself (on the now nearly-defunct Nexus One ) has deployed the latest version yet

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Google: Eclair is on more than half of all Android phones, Froyo bursts onto the scene

Seriously, what the hell did HP acquire when it bought Palm ? A bunch of pretty patents and a rapidly dwindling talent pool, it would seem. Mike Bell, a celebrated capture for Palm back in 2007 after 16 years at Apple, was most recently occupying the role of Senior VP for Product Development on Jon Rubinstein’s team, but he has now switched allegiances to the blue team .

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Intel snaps up former Palm and Apple VP Mike Bell for its smartphone push

Right now, Intel has every right to lay contentedly atop the laurels of its biggest quarterly profit ever , but that’s not what the company is doing at all. Instead of protracting the life of its current-gen processors unduly, Intel is planning to accelerate the roadmap for its next generation of multicore parts, codenamed Sandy Bridge

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Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPUs to tape out ahead of schedule, could be with us this year

At E3 this past summer, we got our first taste of the Nintendo 3DS , and early impressions were good: compelling 3D effect sans glasses from its Sharp-sourced parallax barrier LCD . But, as soon as we moved the thing it became clear that the viewing angle on the effect is woefully slim. This is a problem DoCoMo is said to have at least reduced with its glasses-free LCD, relying on eight lenticular lenses to offer a 30 degree viewing angle — on the horizontal plane.

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DoCoMo’s glasses-free 3D LCD panel could make the 3DS look decidedly first-gen

Sure, smartphone and tablets might be the Next Big Thing, but desktop computing ain’t dead yet — just ask Intel , which just reported its best-ever quarter with a $2.9b profit on $10.8b in revenue. That’s an increase of $445m in profit from last quarter and a whopping $3.3b from last year, all driven by record laptop and server chip revenue, as well as a 16 percent increase in Atom revenue. What’s more, the average sale price of all those chips went up, and selling more chips at a higher price is always good for business.

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Intel has its best quarter ever, brings in $2.9b profit