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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- October 20, 2011

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Asus Revs Up a Lean, Mean Transformer 2 Tablet
Kinect for Kids: The Forgiven Video Games?
How to Improve Your Video-Streaming Clarity
Ubuntu 11.10 and the Oddly Oneiric 'Countdown'
The iPad Mini's Screen Conundrum

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Today's Story Highlights

Asus Revs Up a Lean, Mean Transformer 2 Tablet
Asus offered the world a sneak peek at the company's upcoming
Transformer 2 tablet at the AsiaD conference in Hong Kong earlier this
week, laying to rest speculation that the device's launch might be
delayed. The Transformer 2 is an Android tablet with a detachable
keyboard and a 10-inch screen.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73554.html

Kinect for Kids: The Forgiven Video Games?
Microsoft is partnering with two of the most visible players in the
education industry -- Sesame Workshop and National Geographic -- to roll
out a series of new "edutainment" video games for its Xbox 360 platform.
The games -- "Kinect Sesame Street TV," "Kinect Nat Geo TV" and the
code-named "Project Columbia" -- let children interact with characters
on screen.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73541.html

How to Improve Your Video-Streaming Clarity
The stuttering and freezing that can occur when you're streaming video
are indicative of issues related to bandwidth. Commercial hosted
solutions like Netflix and Hulu can suffer from degraded performance.
Rather than simply calling your ISP and requesting a faster, more
expensive pipe, there are some steps you can take first to optimize your
existing environment for video streaming.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73552.html

Ubuntu 11.10 and the Oddly Oneiric 'Countdown'
It's often the case that anticipating a thing is just as pleasurable as
the thing itself, and that seemed to be more true than ever with the
latest Ubuntu release. Yes, Ubuntu 11.10, or "Oneiric Ocelot," made its
long-awaited debut exactly a week ago, apparently -- though not
unanimously -- bringing considerable pleasure to users far and wide.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73550.html

The iPad Mini's Screen Conundrum
I've been thinking about tweener devices lately -- media devices bigger
than an iPod touch but smaller than an iPad. This is mostly because of
Amazon's Kindle Fire, which sports a wide 7-inch screen. Now, with the
latest rumors coming out of Taiwan indicating Apple is looking over
7.85-inch screens, I'm more confused than ever.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/73548.html

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