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IPad 2 Alternatives: The State of the Tablet Competition

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March 4, 2011
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IPad 2 Alternatives: The State of the Tablet Competition It's Apple's week with the iPad 2 launch, but that's not the only tablet out there. Here are your other choices.
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Infected Android App Runs Up Big Texting Bills Chinese hackers modified the free Steamy Windows Android app, allowing them to hijack a smartphone to install other apps and silently send text messages.
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Is Cloud Computing Still a Dream? At the cloud computing summit, executives from IBM, Intel, Google, VMWare and Fujitsu seemed to be saying that the technology will definitely happen, but let's not get carried away.
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iPad Owners Rush to Dump Old Tablets for New Model Gadget buy-back company Gazelle says trade-in surge bodes well for Apple as more consumers are selling their now-old tablets in an hour than did iPhone owners last summer when Apple launched the iPhone 4.
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Twitter: No Plans for an IPO or Funding Twitter co-founder Biz Stone reportedly said today that the company is making money and there are no plans for Twitter to go public in the near future.
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Gmail Back for Everyone Except Power Users Google Thursday said that Gmail service has mostly been restored some four days after an outage -- except to those heavy users with 'very large' inboxes.
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Next-Generation CIO: Four Personas A new breed of CIOs is emerging. Here's a look at four roles that CIOs will be asked to play, ranging from Chief Integration Officer to Chief Innovation Officer.
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Is the Megascale of the Cloud a Good Thing? Google's recent Gmail outage reveals the dark side of cloud computing's economies of scale -- and the resilience of tape
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Gmail Still Not Fixed for Everyone Three days after Google's Gmail first suffered a service disruption, some users still don't have their service back.
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Facebook's "Like" Button Evolves, Replaces Traditional Sharing It appears Facebook may care less in the future about "What's on Your Mind" and more about the marketing implications of its Like feature.
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Intel Unveils Fast Next-Gen SATA 3.0 SSDs Intel today announced its next line of new solid-state drives, the 510 Series, which Intel says gets 6Gbit/sec. performance.
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IPad 2 Accessories Trickling out Apple and accessory makers are offering cases and jackets that fit the dimensions of the thinner and lighter iPad 2, which was announced on Wednesday. The iPad 2...
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Activate AT&T iPhone Personal Hotspot Plan on the Fly AT&T announced that it will support the personal Wi-Fi hotspot feature in iOS 4.3, and that users can switch it back off without penalty.
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Cybercriminals Targeting Point-of-Sale Devices Point-of-sale payment processing devices for credit and debit cards are proving to be rich targets for cybercriminals due to lax security controls.
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Keeping Tabs on Android Smartphone Activity eBlaster Mobile for Android gives IT admins and parents the tools they need to remotely monitor Android smartphone usage.
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DroidDream Becomes Android Market Nightmare DroidDream Trojan apps teach important lesson to keep your guard up even in the official Android Market.
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Skype and Facebook: Together at Last on (Some) Corporate Networks If using Skype with Facebook triggers cascading browser windows to flood your screen, a fix is on the way.
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