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Evolio Releasing 2.2-pound U9, The Lightest Notebook In The World

Evolio bring the lightest notebook in the world, an ultraportable 18 mm thick and weighing only 980 grams. The Romanian company is much famous for the Neura, a device deemed the “most powerful Android tablet” and now they comes with another bold claim, touting, the lightest notebook in the world. The 11.6-inch U9 features a 1.6GHz Cedarview processor, 2GB of RAM and an SSD with either 64 or 128GB of storage.

SlingPlayer App For Honeycomb Tab At $30

Sling Media, Inc. announced the availability of SlingPlayer for tablets running versions 3.0 or later of the Android. It was teased in September now available for download from Android Market. features a new program guide, designed to help users browse content and change channels with greater ease. The SlingPlayer application for Android Phones will continue to work in “Compatibility Mode” on tablets at no extra charge. SlingPlayer for Android Tablets is now available for U.S. $29.99. Checkout the press release bellow for more also the Android Market link for download.

YouTube Brings Movie Rental To UK

UK users are waking up to a ton of new content courtesy of Google and the YouTube rental service previously only available in the U.S. and Canada. With over 1,000 titles to choose from, the service will offer 48 hour retails ranging from £2.49 to £3.49 and it’s of course available via the Movies link in the upper right of YouTube, but is also accessible through Google TV, Android tablets and certain smartphones running Honeycomb, which in short, Google has been building its movie ambitions incrementally……………………

Microsoft Adds Acer And ViewSonic For Patent License Agreement

Acer and ViewSonic are the latest companies to execute patent licensing agreements with Microsoft to protect their Android smartphones and tablet devices from litigation in the event Microsoft ever decides to take Google to court for patent infringement and ViewSonic will explicitly be paying royalties to Microsoft to cover Android tablets and mobile phones. The announcement of a license agreement with Acer contains no language about royalties, potentially indicating Acer may have executed a patent swap with Microsoft that doesn’t involve cash. Both outfits have signed a patent agreement that provides broad coverage under Microsoft’s patent portfolio for their tablets and mobile phones running the Android or Chrome Platform………………

Apple Hired Comex Jailbreak Hacker

A hacker who goes by the name of Comex has been selected to be an intern at Apple and Comex is a member of the iPhone Dev Team who is known for some high-profile jailbreak exploits like the recent web-based JailbreakMe, will be starting work at Apple the week after next according to a Tweet he posted recently. Apple isn’t the only mobile-toting group looking to pick up their most notorious sneaksters: Samsung just a about a week ago hired no less than Cyanogen of CyanogenMod, Android’s most popular 3rd-party operating system modification, Comex lets you get inside your iPad 2, Cyanogen brings the party once you’re inside your Android tablet……………..

OnLive’s Cloud Gaming Service Becoming Available In UK On 22nd September

OnLive, the pioneer of cloud gaming announced its breakthrough instant-play video game service becoming available from September 22nd, just in time for the 2011 Eurogamer Expo in London. They also offering over 100 games, including top titles released the same second as consoles and PCs, available for great deals under a range of pricing plans for play via almost any broadband Internet connection throughout the UK on HDTV, PC, Mac, and iPad and Android tablets. So you have just over a month to ready yourself for gaming-anywhere awesomeness. OnLive membership is free, providing free instant demos of any game. Checkout more details bellow in the press release to sign up.

Dell Challenges iPad 2 With Streak Pro 10 In China

Dell launched its newest 10-inch Android tablet exclusively in China with the aim of capturing a slice of the country’s growing mobile Internet market and Dell Streak 10 Pro comes pre-installed with popular apps used in the country. Dell also emphasized the device’s low price at 2999 yuan (US$466), with contrast to Apple’s iPad 2 which costs 3688 yuan in China and Dell hasn’t announced any Android 3.x Honeycomb updates for their tablet……………

Sprint’s Galaxy Tab Gets Gingerbread Update

Looks like Sprint and Samsung are not totally giving up on the original Galaxy Tab Android tablet. After the long holiday weekend, Sprint confirmed that the 7 inch tablet will be getting a Android 2.3 Gingerbread update.