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  In Pictures: The best Android tablet apps for communication
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  IN PICTURES: 10 hot Honeycomb apps for business

• yARN: Are we in for a fresh wave of interest in virtual desktops?

  By Stephen Withers | 30 May, 2012 08:45

  The traditional reason for considering virtual desktops in place of conventional PCs has been TCO, with much of the saving coming from the ongoing management and administration benefits. But those savings largely accrued because of the difficulty of managing large numbers of PCs, so small businesses couldn’t really benefit unless they went down the DaaS (desktop as a service) route.

• PRODUCTS: latest from Acer and ASUS

  By Nermin Bajric | 25 May, 2012 12:22

  Acer adds the A510 to its tablet range and releases a 15.6-inch notebook, ASUS unveils multimedia notebook.

• iPhone 4S takes top spot for activations in Q1: Good Technology

  By Nermin Bajric | 03 May, 2012 10:27

  Apple’s iPhone 4S activations hit a record high in Q1, claiming the top spot with 37 per cent of all activations, four times the amount of any other device, according to a report by Good Technology.

• Microsoft may take on Kindles and Nooks

  By Tim Greene | 01 May, 2012 05:29

  Microsoft is investing $300 million in a Barnes & Noble spin-off that has agreed to create a free Metro style Windows 8 application so customers can shop at the spinoff's store, but Microsoft reserves the right to compete against Barnes & Noble with its own e-reader hardware presumably based on Windows 8.

• In Pictures: The best Android tablet apps for communication

  By JR Raphael | 18 April, 2012 09:47

  From tablet-based texting to social media management, these Android tablet apps are at the top of their class when it comes to communication.

• iFixit on new iPad display: "Oh goodness! It's so beautiful! "

  By Brad Reed | 16 March, 2012 04:33

  The new iPad's display screen has the normally-reserved teardown specialists at iFixit gushing.

• Toshiba’s first Windows tablet to hit stores in March

  By Nermin Bajric | 14 March, 2012 15:40

  Toshiba will be introducing its first Windows-based tablet in March with the WT200.

• iPad 3 could blow away competitors

  By Ryan Francis | 07 March, 2012 02:23

  There has been wide speculation on what Apple's next iteration of its tablet will look like, feature and be named. Network World editor John Cox even is able to write a weekly story on the wild rumors surrounding the next iPad.

• Apple, Lenovo add categories to confusing market

  By Tony Bradley | 06 January, 2010 02:10

  According to a rising chorus of rumors, Apple will announce its mythic tablet PC, possibly dubbed the iSlate, later this month. Combined with Lenovo's announcement of Skylight Smartbook, and its upcoming IdeaPad U1--a hybrid notebook and tablet PC, consumers may have a hard time making sense of the overlapping array of available gadgets.