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NEC Japan has released 10.1 inch tablet meant for business and education in Japan for 117,500 Yen (1150 dollars). It runs on an Intel Atom Z3975 processor clocked at 1.60 GHz that turbo boosts to 2.39 GHz.

The screen packs full HD resolution despite being so small. It has been given gorilla glass treatment so that it does not scratches easily.

LTE model comes with only 64GB flash storage while the non LTE models come with 128GB. Other specifications include 8MP camera, 2 mega pixel webcam, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, micro HDMI output port, micro SDHC card slot, audio input and output. You also get GPS, video acceleration, gyro scope and brightness sensor that automatically adjusts the brightness of the screen.

Battery life is around 13.8 hours on a single charge. The company is said to be working on a similar 12.5 inch windows tablet as well but that is expected to be out in June.

Getac has introduced a rugged tablet called G800 that runs Microsoft windows 8.1 operating system. It packs 8.1 inch 600 nits display with a resolution of 1280 × 800 pixels.

Specifications include capacitive display, digitizer, 5MP webcam with auto focus, LED flash, 1D/2D barcode reader, microSD slot and MIL-STD-810G certified which means it is very rugged.

On the back you can fit in a smart card reader for accepting payments or extra hot swappable battery. Standard battery runtimes are 8 hours and adding in the extra battery doubles those runtimes.

The Getac T800 specifications also include IP65 standard compliance which means it is waterproof and dust proof.

Did you know that there is an easter egg in the windows phone 8.1? Discovered by a WPcentral user, all you have to say “Do you like Clippy” to the Cortana. You will get a reply that says “He taught me how important it is to listen.” Here is the screenshot of it.

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Specifications of upcoming Asus Chromebook specifications are now online courtesy of Chromiumnetbooks who spotted C200 and C300 models online on UK and USA shopping websites.

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Since April 11th the Samsung Galaxy S5 has been made available in 125 countries and will soon in 150 more. If the words from zdnet are to be believed  the first day sales of S5 are better than S4 by 30-100 percent, depending on the region. In fact there were long queues in front of stores for users in France.

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Joe Belfiore who runs the team of windows phone at Microsoft has confirmed on Twitter that 3 column time option will be available on all windows phones running WP8.1, not just on only phones with display size of 4.5 and more as said by Joe in October last year.

3 column tile option will allow users to squeeze more data on to their home screens. Many windows phones already come with 3 tile column enabled. This includes Lumia 1320 and 1520 that Nokia released in Q4 2013.

This option will be very much appreciated by the low end Lumia 520 that compromises of more than 30 percent of Windows Phone market.