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Intel’s spent the last nine months prepping its Oak Trail silicon to improve the battery life and performance of Windows 7 tablets, and come the end of next month we should finally have some slates with the new 1.5GHz Atom Z670 chip inside. While Fudzilla has heard that the tablets will hit in the general March time frame, the eagle-eyed guys at Netbook News spotted the Fujitsu Stylistic Q550 press materials stating that the new platform will launch on March 30, 2011. That seems to line up with what we’ve heard on timing, since both the Oak Trail-powered Samsung Sliding PC 7 and MSI WindPad 100W were announced with March availability. Chances are we will hear more about it all at CeBIT next week, but honestly, at this point we’re just really eager to get one of these in our hands to see what Chipzilla’s really improved.

Intel Oak Trail Atom Z670 tablets to arrive at the end of March originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Scientists have found evidence that water was trapped for up to billions of years inside rocks deep in an African gold mine.

Tonight’s episode of Fringe is the best in ages. After a handful of somewhat weak storylines, tonight’s Fringe kicks your ass with a super-dark, messed-up tale of the aftermath of Peter Bishop’s kidnapping. Here are some things to watch for. More »

Gmail graduated two label-related Labs features to all Gmail accounts today: Hide Read Labels (to declutter your Gmail sidebar) and Hide Labels from Subjects (to make Gmail subjects more readable on smaller screens). If you already had these features enabled, you shouldn’t notice a difference. If you hadn’t, click on the drop-down next to a label in the sidebar to selectively show, hide, or show-if-unread your labels. [Official Gmail Blog] More »

TKO!

Facebook for BlackBerry is getting ready for a fresh update soon. According to these leaked screenshots it shows that version 2.0 will be seeing a complete UI refresh along with – and finally – Facebook Chat. Other improvements that are expected to arrive are the ability to View friends’ profile info, pages and friends lists. […]

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Federal cabinet minister Tony Clement says expanding access to the internet in Canada is “critical.”

One person is dead following a head-on crash on Highway 9 south of Canora, Sask.

We can think of a pretty good reason why Apple might have a head-start when it comes to Thunderbolt-capable machines, but Apple doesn’t actually have a timed exclusive on the technology, at least according to Intel PR. The company told us that while it’s currently targeting an early 2012 launch for Thunderbolt with other OEMs — whereas the new MacBook Pro has Thunderbolt right now — there’s nothing stopping other manufacturers from launching machines with the 10Gbps interconnect a good bit earlier if they so desire.

In related news, the first Thunderbolt peripherals have just been formally announced — the Promise Pegasus RAID array we saw spitting out 800MB / sec video streams, and the LaCie Little Big Disk. The former will come in four-bay and six-bay variants, topping out at 12TB of magnetic storage when it arrives in Q2, and the latter will boast a pair of Intel 510 Series SSDs — which, by the way, have yet to be formally announced — in RAID 0 for 500GB of storage in total. PR after the break.

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To ensure positive user experiences on Platform, we run routine automated screens that take user feedback, machine learning and various algorithms into account and remove spammy applications. For example, if an application is making an inordinate number of stream.publish calls and receiving a large number of user reports, it may be removed by our automated systems to protect the user experience and the Platform ecosystem.

We have automated systems in place to ensure apps on Facebook Platform provide a positive user experience, and we’re currently looking into the issue with “Breakup Notifier”. Additionally, we did not block the “Blackmail Yourself” app. Some features were temporarily disabled this week as we worked with the developer to ensure the app complied with all of our policies, but it has been and continues to be accessible.

By Tim Conneally, Betanews

The Android Market has never had any specific ban on carrying and selling straight up text documents, and users could search through the market and find apps that were, in effect, standalone e-books. Now, however, there is a section dedicated specifically to e-books which currently features around 500 titles from publishers such as Simon and Schuster, Macmillan, W.W. Norton and Co., Hachette, and more.

The URL for the site, market.android.com/books, was discovered by Android Guys last week, and the site noted that URLs for /music, and /movies worked and resolved to the Android Market.

Thursday is the first day the /books URL began landing on a real market page.

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