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Portable video 'is the future'

Toshiba: Portable video on tablets ‘is the future

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Toshiba's UK business manager says its tablet PC was developed to complement trends in media usage.

The Folio 100 has been unveiled at the IFA technology show in Berlin.

It is in direct competition with the iPad, but unlike its rival it can play flash video, the most popular form of streaming on the web.

Graeme Simons says the evidence is that people are keen to view media away from home as Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones has discovered.

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