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Digital City 77: Google and Dell tablets; real-life gaming; and we read some hate mail

This week, we check out some iPad competitors coming from Google and Dell (among others), and take the room's collective temperature on the upcoming iPhone 4 OS.

Dan Ackerman Editorial Director / Computers and Gaming
Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" (Hachette/PublicAffairs), a non-fiction gaming and business history book that has earned rave reviews from the New York Times, Fortune, LA Review of Books, and many other publications. "Upends the standard Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs/Mark Zuckerberg technology-creation myth... the story shines." -- The New York Times
Expertise I've been testing and reviewing computer and gaming hardware for over 20 years, covering every console launch since the Dreamcast and every MacBook...ever. Credentials
  • Author of the award-winning, NY Times-reviewed nonfiction book The Tetris Effect; Longtime consumer technology expert for CBS Mornings
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Watch this: Ep. 77: Google and Dell tablets; real-life video games; and we read some hate mail

This week, we check out some iPad competitors coming from Google and Dell (among others), and take the room's collective temperature on the upcoming iPhone 4 OS.

Secondly, if you're looking to bring those video game skills into "real life," there's an upcoming round of Street Wars coming to NYC. London, SF, and other cities are also on the list, and the game itself is a grownup version of the college dorm classic "Assassination."

Finally, we look at a couple of recent CNET articles that have readers all riled up, and willing to leave online comments such as, "Dan your an idiot. [sic]" and "What in a world is wrong with you Mr. Ackerman?"

Everyone loved last week's giveaway of a prop gun from the Sega game Bayonetta, and this week we're giving away a copy of the excellent strategy game Tropico 3. We've got it for both Xbox 360 and PC, so let us know which one when you enter (and, naturally, listen to the show to find out how to enter).

Related links:
>>StreetWars
>>Speed test: Netbook versus Apple iPad
>>R.I.P. the computer mouse, 1972-2010

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