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Top 20 Android Productivity Apps
Android handsets are pouring onto the market every day and there's a deluge of Android apps competing to fills those screens. To sort through the storm surge of app choices, we've trolled through the Android Market to hauled in 20 Android apps that no business user should be without.

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Toshiba Introduces Android Tablet
The Folio 100 has a 10.1-inch diagonal display and runs Google's Android 2.2, which supports Adobe Flash, a key differentiator from Apple's iPad.

Motorola Takes Another Shot At Apple

Motorola has published another full-page ad for one of its Android devices, and takes a poke at the iPhone's inability to access Flash.

Pricing Could Determine Samsung Galaxy Tab's Fate
Samsung has not released official pricing for its new Android tablet, but its business partners are publishing prices that exceed $1,000 for the seven-inch Tab.

Dell's 3PAR Termination Fee Could Fuel Storage Acquisition

HP won the bidding war for 3PAR, but Dell will pocket a $72 million termination fee that could help fund purchase of another storage provider and bolster Dell's aggressive move into IT services.

Google Plans 'Wave in a Box'

Would-be Wave users will soon see the project's open source code packaged for easier deployment.

Jobs Bets Big On Apple TV
$99 console will offer television downloads as well as streaming content from Netflix, YouTube, and Internet radio.

Toshiba Recalls Laptops Due To Overheating Risk
Updated BIOS released to detect faulty power harness in certain Satellite model notebooks.

HP Better Positioned Against Cisco With 3Par Acquisition
Addition of storage vendor will aid Hewlett-Packard in achieving its "Converged Infrastructure" focus on storage, server, and networking.

Global CIO: Danger, Danger, Larry Ellison: The T-Shirts Are Coming!

Instead of campaigning to marshal support against Ellison's Java plans, Java creator Gosling has trivialized the issue with his insipid T-shirt "protest."

Sharp Demos 3D Camera Phone

Similar to the Apple iPhone 4 or Samsung Galaxy S in design, the prototype mobile device has a glasses-free 3D parallax screen and multiple 3D cameras.

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Is The Smartphone The OS Or The Hardware?
By Jim Rapoza
Ask someone what kind of desktop or laptop they own and they will most likely respond with the operating system name. And it used to be that if you asked about their smartphone, they would probably respond with the hardware name. But that may be changing.

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A Bolder, Brassier VMware Emerges From The Cloud
By Charles Babcock
Around the breakfast table at VMworld, attendees from places like Calgary, Little Rock and Charleston, S.C., remarked on how Ubuntu, Microsoft and Red Hat were barely visible at the show this year. Microsoft had a little booth I never succeeded in spotting; Red Hat had a 10-by-10 on the perimeter. It all suddenly seemed so obvious.

Samsung Picks Android, Windows Phone 7 Takes Hit
By Ed Hansberry
Samsung announced on Thursday that they plan to focus their development efforts on Google's Android platform and their own Bada platform. Up until now, Samsung has been a solid partner of Microsoft's. They aren't leaving Windows Phone 7 behind, but they are only planning one device running Microsoft's new software. As for Symbian, don't count on it.

Equinux, JAMF Upgrade iPhone, iPad Provisioning Platforms
By Jake Widman
Tarmac, the iOS provisioning solution from Equinux, has added a security feature, while the next version of JAMF's Casper Suite will take advantage of the new management features in iOS4.

Let The Contractors In
By J. Nicholas Hoover
Contractors deserve a voice in the series of upcoming TechStat review sessions the Office of Management and Budget has launched to fix high-risk IT projects across the federal government.

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