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Whoa, Nelly! We just made a beeline to Razer’s booth here on the CES show floor, and were presented with a fairly technical talk surrounding the newly launched Switchblade. While officially deemed a concept, we came away with a serious impression that Razer’s not investing loads of time and money on this just for kicks. In other words, we’d cautiously expect to see this thing on sale at some point next year — but let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves. We spent a good half-hour toying with this Windows 7-based mini netbook, and we came away seriously impressed by what’s happening here. Head on past the break for more of our impressions.

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Dell just pulled out a 10-inch Android tablet on the CES 2011 stage. It looks like it’s running Stage UI, and that tiny silver dot up top might be a front-facing camera. There’s a docking port on the bottom and a headphone jack (and what looks like a volume rocker) on the left side. That’s literally all we know for now. You’re such a tease, Dell.

Update: Dell says it’s called the Streak 10. Makes sense, no? By the way, that’s a non-functional unit that Dell’s held up on stage — just a backlit, static image on a device that’s not yet ready for primetime.

Dell teases Streak 10 for literally five seconds, says we’ll see it next year (update) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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AirPlay is coming to Denon and Marantz receivers, including the Denon AVR-4311CI and several other favorites. But in order to get the functionality, consumers will need to pay an additional $50.

Originally posted at CES 2011

We knew it was coming, but we didn’t know what it would look like… or anything else besides 4G, Honeycomb, and an LG partnership, but at it’s press event here at CES, T-Mobile has finally revealed its G-Slate tablet. It looks like, well, a big screen, and we’re still working on getting more details, but for now these shots from the presser will have to suffice.

T-Mobile G-Slate revealed at CES press event originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Well, we can’t say we saw this one coming, but Skype has just dropped a bombshell right in the middle of CES — it’s announced plans to acquire rival video calling company Qik. No terms of the deal have been disclosed, but Skype says that the transaction is expected to close this month. According to Skype, the two companies will “focus on providing a richer, more integrated experience that will allow people globally to share experiences in real-time video across different platforms,” and it notes that Qik’s “deep engineering capabilities and strong mobile relationships will be an impressive complementary fit with Skype.” Head on past the break for the official press release.

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Skype announces plans to acquire Qik originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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