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  • Inside an alleged iPad killer: the Samsung Galaxy Tab

    While not quite ready to declare the Galaxy Tab a true Apple iPad killer after looking inside the new 7-inch touchscreen tablet computer, teardown specialists at iFixit confirm that Samsung has delivered some technology to die for.

  • Good news for enterprise iPads: Apple readies iOS 4.2

    Apple has released the final code to developers for its iOS 4.2 update, according to several technology Websites. The update, scheduled for public release later this month, is especially big news for the iPad, which will gain a range of features already available to iPhone and iPod touch users running iOS 4.

  • How to secure iPads for corporate use

    When Apple's iOS 4.2 debuts next month, it will offer enough features to make the iPad tablet a device that's safe for business if IT security teams take the right steps.

  • Cisco expects BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to do well

    Cisco expects RIM's new BlackBerry PlayBook to do well among businesses moving toward tablets, and help to augment customer demand for Cisco's WebEx service and Unified Communications Manager platforms.

  • Tablet wars: Avaya Flare vs Cisco Cius

    Avaya has announced Flare, a tablet with docking station that supports hi-def video calling. It's set to go head to head with Cisco's Cius tablet announced earlier this summer. Here's how these two contenders stack up against each other as they enter an arena dominated by the iPad.

  • PC set to morph into personal supercomputer

    Within the next three to four years, new PC machines will havemorphed into personal supercomputers. This change is set to come with the emergence of multicore CPUs and, perhaps more importantly, the arrival of massively parallel cores in the graphical processing units.

  • Machines that count: the Apple II and IBM PC

    Computer historian John Pratt, curator of the "machines that Count" exhibition on now at Auckland's Museum of Transport and Technology, provides weekly insights into the history of computing.

  • Dell to lay off 10% of employees

    Dell will lay off 10% of its 88,100 workers, in a continuing effort to improve profits as the company also completes an investigation of accounting fraud, says the company.

  • US$100 laptops to roll off production lines in Q2 2007

    The US$100 (NZ$151) laptop PC at the heart of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative aimed at school children in developing countries will start rolling off production lines in the second quarter of next year.

  • PC vendors blame batteries – not notebook design

    Following the alarming number of notebook battery recalls this year, a group of PC vendors met recently to seek safer lithium ion cells, and resolved to draft an improved standard for battery manufacturing and quality control by the second quarter of 2007.

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