On the stage at the AsiaD conference, ASUS chairman Johnny Shih announced the Transformer Prime tablet. The Transformer Prime is 8.3mm thick. The Transformer Prime has an NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor and a 10″ screen. Shih said that the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system has a good chance of being on tablets by the end of the year. The Transformer Prime is good at being docked into a keyboard. [Engadget]

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) co-founder Jerry Yang said today that the company board of directors is considering multiple options about what to do with the company. “The intent going in is not to put ourselves for sale,” said Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang at the AsiaD conference. “The intent is to look at all the options.” Yahoo! is made of three components: Its core business, Yahoo! Japan (Softbank), and its share in Alibaba.

Visual.ly is an infographics design company that has raised $2 million in seed funding. The investors in this round includes Crosslink Capital, SoftTech, 500 Startups, Kapor Capital, Giza Ventures, Naval Ravikant, Mark Goines, Josh James, etc. Visual.ly had about 26,000 users sign up as part of their beta. Over 300,000 infographics have been created and they receive about one million pageviews per month. Some of the companies that Visual.ly works with include BuzzFeed, AskMen, CNNMoney, GOOD, NASDAQ, Skype, the Wall Street Journal, and National Geographic. Visual.ly plans on using the funding for building their development team and hire additional data visualization specialists.

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) has announced that they have activated over 1 million iPhone 4S devices as of this past Tuesday. “It’s no surprise that customers are clamoring for iPhone 4S and they want it to run on a network that lets them download twice as fast as competitors’,” stated AT&T Mobility & Consumer Markets President and CEO Ralph de la Vega. [AT&T News]

At the All Things D Asia conference, Microsoft Windows Phone President Andy Lees announced a new line of Windows Phone powered devices coming to AT&T. These devices includes the HTC Titan, Samsung Focus S, and Samsung Focus Flash. The Focus S and Focus Flash have 1.4GHz Sandragon S2 SoC processors. The Focus S has a 4.3″ Super AMOLED Plus Display and the Flash has a 3.7″ Super AMOLED screen. The Focus S has an 8MP rear facing camera and the Flash has a 5MP rear facing camera. Not much has been revealed about the Titan as of yet. These three devices are expected to arrive this fall. [Windows Team Blog]

The Universal Series Bus industry standard has revolutionized the PC industry. The USB was designed to standardize computer peripherals and gadgets. If you are looking into ways to make your cubicle or desk interesting, then buying some USB toys and gadgets might help you out. Some of the USB gadgets out there includes mini drum sets, microscopes, etc. Check out a list of 24 creative USB desk toys and gadgets below:

Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) has announced additional features to the SYNC telematics system. The enhancement allows drivers to listen to text messages while they are driving. The SYNC software upgrade is free and it will broaden the number of devices that are compatible with the hands-free text read-back SYNC feature.

Cricket Wireless has put together an infographic about the rise of Android. One of the most interesting facts is that 1 million Android devices was activated in October 2009 and 150 million was activated in August 2011. Click the image to enlarge. [source: MyCricket]