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Intel has shown off gesture-controlled ultrabooks with built-in tilt sensors and touch-free credit card readers. The chip maker said more than 75 laptop models - with less advanced features - are in the pipeline this year. The US firm told a Consumer Electronics Show press conference that it planned to launch its biggest marketing campaign in nearly a decade to back the format, starting in April. The move may help the firm offset slowing desktop PC sales. Mooly Eden, the vice president and general manager of Intel's PC group, dedicated most of his presentation to the user-experience that ultrabooks offer, giving only brief mention to the technology behind its upcoming Ivy Bridge and Haswell processors. He noted that the firm was working with its partners to reduce prices and boost screen sizes - two factors that he said had put off shoppers to date. "People want their device to be nice, small, sleek, sexy... they want...

More than 50 new tablet computers are expected to debut at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. But only one is meant for people in the poorest regions of the world, and comes with a hand crank as an accessory. Known as the XO 3.0, the rugged green and white device has an eight-inch screen and was designed by the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child, which in 2008 launched the XO laptop, a device for people who are normally far from the minds of most computing companies. At a press preview held before the official opening of CES on Tuesday, O...