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CES: Tablets, connectivity, and in 3D (week in review)

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 CES: Motorola reveals iPad-rival Xoom tablet

As promised, the big star of this year's Consumer Electronics Show was the tablet, but Internet connectivity and 3D everything were vying for the spotlight as well.

Motorola plans to dethrone Apple's iPad with its new Android-based Xoom tablet. The Xoom--one of many tablets unveiled at CES--betters the iPad in some ways. It comes standard with front- and rear-facing cameras, including one that can record in HD, compared with none in the current version of the iPad. It also boasts a larger screen with a higher resolution, supports Adobe Flash, and uses Verizon's network instead of AT&T's. Motorola Xoom running Android 3.0 Honeycomb (photos)

Surprisingly, not everyone is touting the "iPad killer" tablet. In fact, Sony would be happy with coming in second. "We'd really like to take the No. 2 position (in the tablet market) by 2012," Kunimasa Suzuki, deputy president...

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