Viewsonic has launched two new tablets – the ViewPad 10pi and the ViewPad 10e. The ViewPad 10pi runs Android 2.3 and Windows 7 in dual boot, while the ViewPad 10e runs only Android 2.3.

Nvidia and Asus have announced the Asus EEE Pad MeMo ME370T. It’s an Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet powered by a Tegra 3 chip. It’s to be priced at just $249.

Microsoft is running a new promotional challenge called #smokedbywindowsphone at CES 2012, offering $100 if your phone can beat Windows Phone.

Fusion Garage is now dead. It still owes $40 million to its creditors, and is liquidating its assets to pay them off.

Asus has already unveiled its tablet plans for CES 2012. It plans to announce a Windows 8 ARM tablet, a 3G version of the Transformer Prime, and some other Android tablets.

Apple will earn more than half of the total mobile app download revenue in 2012. Android will generate around 20%, while other platforms will generate the remainder.

Samsung has launched the ChatON instant messenger on the iOS App Store. It’s now available on Android, iOS and Bada.

The OLPC XO 3.0 tablet will be officially unveiled at CES 2012. It has a 1 GHz Marvell processor, 512 MB of RAM and an 8-inch PixelQi display.

Nokia has bought Smarterphone, an operating system developer which has developed a smart platform for feature phones.

HTC reported its Q4 2011 earnings, with a 26% drop in operating profit and a 2.5% drop in overall revenues. It sold only 10 million devices in Q4.

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich now powers 0.6% of all Android devices, while Android 2.3 Gingerbread powers around 55.5%.

Millennial Media, the second largest player in the mobile advertising market after Google’s Admob, has just filed to go public in 2012. It aims to raise $75 million.

Samsung had a record-breaking Q4 2011. It sold approximately 35 million smartphones and recorded a profit of close to $4.5 billion.

The rumor mill suggests that Google may be working on an inexpensive, $200 Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet to take on the Amazon Kindle Fire.

A total of 6.8 million iOS and Android devices were activated on December 25, and around 242 million apps were downloaded, breaking all previous records.