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Will Android Overtake iPad In The Tablet Market This Year?

IDC figures suggest that Android shipments should overtake those of iPads in 2013, although that’s a slightly different thing from actual tablet sales.


Microsoft Wants You To Play XBLA Games On Windows 8 And RT

Microsoft has begun promoting its new Play service, beginning with the migration of 15 Xbox Live Arcade games to Windows 8 and Windows RT. The service allows users to play some XBLA games on their Windows 8 and Windows RT devices, and there’s much more on the way.


Windows RT Jailbroken To Run Desktop Apps

Windows RT has been hacked to allow desktop apps to run on Microsoft’s ARM-based OS. The trick circumvents a setting which usually restricts ARM-based apps to Microsoft’s built-in ones, so that unsigned desktop apps can also be installed.


Report: Nokia’s Windows RT Tablet Will Have Surface-Like Cover

According to a report from The Verge, Nokia is going to out its own Windows RT tablet early next year. That’s fine; it would be weirder if they weren’t. But what’s a little less expected is that the company’s elves are hard at work on creating a keyboard cover of their very own.


Microsoft Is Being Sued Over The Space (Or Lack Thereof) On The Surface RT

So it’s a bit odd that the 32GB Surface actually only turns up with 16GB of space, because Windows RT takes up half of it, but suing Microsoft? Really? Why don’t you just stick an SD in there and call it a day? What’s wrong with you?


Windows RT Takes Up Half Of The 32GB Microsoft Surface’s Storage

So this is surprising. Microsoft just put a final figure on the storage numbers for Windows RT: 16GB on the 32GB model, and 18GB on the 64GB model. That’s even bigger than the already hefty 12GB estimates that had been around before.


Microsoft Whores Out Surface RT Tablet To NCIS: Los Angeles

Product placement in TV and movies is nothing new. Sony for example almost single-handedly funded Casino Royale a few years back, and Ford has had its products all over the CW network for ages now. I’m generally alright with product placement in TV and movies, as long as it’s not overt. What follows is a lesson direct from Microsoft about how not to subtly place your product in front of an audience.


New Windows RT Apps: Skype, Firefox And More

This week was a Microsoft bonanza. A new operating system and new hardware means new apps. So joining the best apps of the week roster is a new batch of titles meant for RT. Inside, you’ll find a lot of apps you know and love, all ready for your new Surface tablet.


Microsoft Surface RT Australian Hands-On: The Pristine Wilderness

Everyone who has gone hands-on with the Surface RT this week has said the same thing: they wanted to like it, but just couldn’t get there when the rubber hit the road. One of the first Surface RT units landed in Australia this morning, and we got hands on with it. Is it really the misfire people are labelling it as? Not necessarily.


Asus Vivo Tab HD Review: So About Those ARM-Based Windows 8 Apps…

When Microsoft first announced its plans to make Windows 8 an operating system that would work on tablets and traditional PCs alike, many considered the plan ambitious. Now that the OS is here, the Vivo Touch HD will be one of the first third party, ARM-based tablet to take the software for a spin.


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