CES 2011: Press Day Highlights

Las Vegas - The CES pre-show yesterday revealed a lot of surprises. From Samsung's new Galaxy S inspired media player and the announcement of a Wi-Fi only Galaxy Tab to Motorola Mobility stunning new dual processor-powered Android Atrix smartphone (coming to Bell in Canada "sometime soon") to the unveiling of the BlackBerry PlayBook, the dual-core and Honeycomb slathered Xoom Tablet, to Microsoft's Kinect and Windows 8 running on SoC (Systems on a Chip). 

Motorola Xoom: The first Honeycomb powered Android tablet is also te first generation of dual-processor challengers to the iPad

New Cliq- Motorola Mobility proves it is in it to win it with a host of new phones including the new and improved Cliq 2

Showstopper: Motorola's Atrix pushed the boundaries of smartphone specs and came with a cool dock that doubles as a notebook which is powered by the super smartphone

 Tablets in all shapes and forms: This folding tablet from Samsung runs desktop variety Windows 7Resurface: Microsoft's Surface 2 is made of millions of tiny cameras that can scan and interact with anything they come into contact with. Part of the demo was a cool RBC app for banking customersThe incredible shrinking motherboard: A tiny System on a Chip motherboard (extreme left) poses next to a full-sized mobo and offers similar performance but way less power consumption. Perfect for tablets and smartphones

Microsoft obsoletes the remote control: Kinect now controls movies, music, Netflix and Hulu with voice and gestures.Going strong: Windows Phone 7 has 5,500 apps, not bad for a two month old OS. Copy and paste plus multitasking said to be coming soon

Holiday Buyer's Guide: 5 HDTV's

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Looking into a new HDTV to greet the New Year with, well the good news is that there are a lot of excellent choices right now. Ushering a new age in multifunctional HDTVs, manufacturers have been slinging new features and capabilities while bringing down prices to unprecedented lows. Competition is great right now and buyers have a lot of compelling choices for HDTVs this season. Here are our picks.

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Sony Reader app coming soon to iOS and Android

So, check this out. Pretty soon iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and Android (smartphones, Samsung Galaxy Tab) will be able to run all major eBook Reader formats. We already have Kindle, Kobo and Barnes & Noble Nook apps available on both platforms and Sony is committed to releasing its Sony Reader app as well. This is big news for avid readers who want the largest selection of eBook sources without needing the eBook reader devices. Add Google's eBookstore to the mix and tablets as e-reader tools just became a lot more compelling.

Google launches Samsung's Nexus S as new flagship smartphone

What's this! Google has officially launched its new flagship smartphone the Nexus S and it comes preloaded with Gingerbread (Android 2.3). Essentially a rebranded Samsung Galaxy S complete with the Super AMOLED screen backing a 4-inch contour display, 16GB of storage and a 1GHz Hummingbird processor. It is interesting to note that previous "chosen" Google phones (the T-Mobile G1 and the Google Nexus One) were made by HTC but this one has Samsung written all over it. A sign up sheet for interested customers is available on the site