HP last night posted a (rather boring) five-minute video (even the interviewer seems to forget where she is at some points) giving further details about the HP Slate that Steve Ballmer showed off during his keynote at CES 2010. It was first posted on the hpcomputers YouTube channel with the heading “SPECIAL REPORT! The HP Slate.” The interviewee is CTO Phil McKinney, who we’ve seen showing prototypes of HP touch devices before. We’ve watched the video so that you don’t have to (despite its lacking presentation, the details are interesting), but in case you’re interested, we’ve also embedded it below:

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Our liveblog of the Apple event will reside on this page! Bookmark it and come back on Wednesday, January 27 at 10am Pacific Time to see the updates as they come in. You can also sign up for an e-mail reminder via the form below; on the day of the event, the widget will automatically change over to the liveblog. In the meantime, catch up on the latest rumors about what to expect!

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Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars comes out today for the Nintendo Wii, and like the release of Street Fighter IV, Mad Catz is there with the release of a brand new arcade stick. We fell in love with the Street Fighter IV models—go take a look at our review for our thoughts on those products—and the good news is that the Wii now has its own high-quality stick.

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Mac OS X 10.7 is appearing with increasing frequency in traffic logs. Some think this means that the OS will be on display at WWDC in June.

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Devices running iPhone OS 3.2 have been spotted in online application logs, which one analytics firm believes is evidence that there are at least 50 Apple tablets currently in testing. Flurry Analytics peeked into the data that came with these devices and “reliably placed” them, geographically, on Apple’s campus in Cupertino. Though this development certainly shows something is coming, there’s little evidence to show that it’s anything more than a standard update to the iPhone OS.

Flurry justifies its belief that these 50 devices are Apple tablets because the apps being tested were heavy in the games, entertainment, news/books, and lifestyle categories. This, of course, is what has allegedly been the focus of Apple’s yet-to-be-announced tablet, which is widely expected to be media focused.

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With just days to go before Apple is likely to unveil a long-expected tablet device, rumors continue to circulate over its details. As the buzz continues, we wanted to wrap up what we have heard recently.

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On the first day of CES, I dropped by the Qualcomm booth looking for ARM-based smartbooks to try out. As I poked and prodded the Lenovo Skylight, I pulled out my Nexus One and dropped it on top of the unit for a size reference so that we could snap picture of it. As I stood there looking at the phone laying on top of the smartbook and contemplating the fact that both of these (Android-based) devices had 1GHz, ARM-based Snapdragon processors in them, I glanced across the booth and spotted an ARM-based game console sitting right next to the ARM-based iRex Iliad e-reader. And then there was the portable media player (PMP) positioned not far away… then it really sunk in: smartphone, netbook, e-reader, PMP, game console—all popular consumer electronic categories with real computing needs and a huge audience, and all on ARM right now.

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Square Enix has announced that 20 years after their original release, Final Fantasy one and two are coming to the iPhone and iPod touch.

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The Kindle game is up, and Amazon knows it. In 2010, the world plus dog will be hawking an E-Ink-based e-reader, and major distribution and publishing houses like Barnes & Noble, Google, and Hearst will be offering their digital content on everything with a screen. That’s why Amazon gave up some royalty money to e-book publishers on Wednesday, and announced a SDK and app store for the Kindle on Thursday.

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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station now have Internet access for the first time.

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