Not a day goes by without the Chinese coming up with some kind of bizarro iPad clone . According to the Wall Street Journal, an iPad clone called the “Red Pad” endorsing Mao Tse-Tung’s “Little Red Book” of Communism briefly surfaced in China before getting removed.

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$1,600 ‘Red Pad’ is China’s Communist Party-approved iPad clone

Last year was not a great year for RIM. Having launched its PlayBook tablet to lukewarm reviews and not having native email and calendar apps baked in, RIM is rumored to be dropping a new 10-inch PlayBook and another revamped 7-inch PlayBook.

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Rumor: two new BlackBerry PlayBook tablets coming out this year

DigiTimes is at it again, but instead of talking up info on the next iPad or iPhone, it’s reporting that Windows 8 tablets might cost somewhere between $600 and $900. If true, well, Windows 8 tablets could be screwed.

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Windows 8 tablets might cost a fortune, make iPads look cheap

Want an inexpensive tablet that doesn’t compromise on screen size? You’ll want Acer Iconia Tab A200 — a 10.1-inch tablet that runs on Android 3.2 Honeycomb (to be upgraded to 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich) and has a beefy dual-core processor.

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Acer Iconia A200 is 10.1-inches of tablet goodness for $330

You may have heard of Siri, that sultry vixen with the smooth voice who doesn’t know where abortion clinics are but likes to curse out twelve-year-olds . Well, like most sultry vixens (trust me, I know like two… that I saw… on TV… once), she’s not a fan of imitators, and even rival Google will ban a Siri knockoff and its developer from the Android Market.

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Google bans Siri knockoff application and developer

You might know the old trick of bringing your passport to the bar if you’ve forgotten you ID, but what about bringing your iPad to the border if you’ve forgotten your passport? Yeah, it’s a new one. This story has been updated.

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Man tries to enter U.S. using his iPad as a passport (and it works)

What started out as a hilarious joke on The Office , might just become a reality. Eric Calisto is reaching out to the Internet to help him fund the creation of the world’s first tablet shaped like a triangle. This is not an April Fool’s joke.

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This Kickstarter dude wants to build and sell triangular tablets

Check your tablets Kindle Fire owners, because a new software update is zipping through the air to fix those glitchy woes . It’s a performance booster, but a big one.

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New Kindle Fire update fixes glitches and smoothes out kinks

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt is making a lot of promises lately. First he says that in six months the “majority” of TVs will run Google TV and now he claims that Google has a tablet — the Nexus Tablet — of some form, ready to be pushed out in six months.

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Google: Android tablet of ‘highest quality’ coming in six months

You no doubt have seen stories in both the tech and the mainstream media about how Amazon is going to somehow correct the problems with its Kindle Fire tablet/e-reader. At the risk of Amazon proving me wrong about Fire a second time (more on the first time in a bit), I suggest that Fire, in its current form, can’t be fixed. For instance, Amazon can’t send out external volume control buttons to every Fire buyer. The company can’t move the bottom sleep switch so you don’t keep hitting it accidentally while just balancing it in your hand. But to me, these are niggling issues. What Amazon won’t be able to fix is the heightened expectations it raised in the months prior to anyone actually getting their hands on a Fire — especially in its supposed “revolutionary” Silk mobile Web browser, which turns out to be as revolutionary as a silk hankie.

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Opinion: Why Kindle Fire can’t be fixed