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• New iPads 'in three to four months'

  Sources in Apple's supply chain have cast doubt on an analyst's prediction that the next generation iPads will launch in February.

• Kindle Fire update expected in two weeks

  Amazon will provide an over-the-air update to Kindle Fire tablets in less than two weeks, a spokesman <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/technology/personaltech/amazons-fire-some-say-may-become-the-edsel-of-tablets.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1">told The New York Times</a> today.

• School shuns popular Apple Mac for Windows

  For a self-described "Mac person" working as a technology manager in a college preparatory school that had been a "Mac school" for as long as he could remember, it was a hard thing to have to face but he said it out loud: "<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/060309-apple-quiz.html">Apple</a> never took enterprise computing seriously," says a somewhat disillusioned Adam Gerson, co-director of technology at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in New York City.

• Did HP just give webOS 'a death sentence'?

  As an open-source project with uncertain backing, webOS has a tough road ahead of it, analysts said on Friday.

• Analysts shave iPad sales estimates

  Some stock analysts are scaling back their estimates for <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/111910-apple-ipad-resources.html">iPad</a> sales, in part due to the bargain-priced Amazon Kindle Fire.

• Padlock salesman trades 30-pound sample case for 1.35-pound iPad

  For William Tway, the really important number for the Apple <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/111910-apple-ipad-resources.html">iPad</a> is 1.35. That's how much the 3G model weighs. And it weighs about 28.67 pounds less than the sample case of padlocks, not to mention the thick paper catalogs, he used to lug around as head of East Coast sales for the Wilson Bohannan Padlock Company.

• Citrix: Desktop virtualization makes good security sense

  One of the main reasons for deploying <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/112409-vdi-desktop-virtualization-cheat-sheet.html">desktop virtualization</a> is the security advantages it can provide, such as keeping sensitive data off the endpoint, according to <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2011/enterprise6/120511-cloud-computing-citrix-253310.html">Citrix</a>.

• IBM launches enterprise social collaboration apps for tablets

  Responding to increased use of tablets within workplaces, IBM will release on Wednesday several mobile applications designed to let employees use IBM enterprise social collaboration software with iPads and other mobile devices.

• Apple faces legal threat to iPad trademark in China

  A Chinese court has rejected Apple's lawsuits to gain control of the iPad trademark in China, while a little-known Chinese firm raises the stakes and seeks to ban the iconic tablet from being sold in the country under the iPad brand.

• Motorola Droid Xyboard tablets to hit Verizon this month

  Two new Droid Xyboard tablet computers that use the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network will go on sale later this month.

• Apple: iOS 5 marked end of our Carrier IQ support

  <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/060309-apple-quiz.html">Apple</a> Thursday issued a statement that it stopped supporting a controversial Carrier IQ software that is intended to collect smartphone performance data for carriers, but allegedly collects detailed personal information.

• ITEX: CIOs need to prepare for post-PC world

  CIOs need to prepare for a radically different future where the dominant platform for staff is the app phone, tablet and the cloud.

• iPhone 5 rumour rollup for the week ending Nov. 18

  Delirium reigns in the iOSsphere on learning that the iPhone 5 is, or was, real. Until Steve Jobs, its Creator, also became its Destroyer.

• Apple readies for holiday bonanza

  The Apple iPhone might not be dominating the smartphone market like its iOS cousin, the iPad, is commanding the emerging tablet market, but recent signs point to an upcoming iPhone boon that will go bonkers this holiday season.

• Kindle Fire ships a day early

  Amazon shipped its $199 Kindle Fire a day early, the company said in a statement released late Monday, and some <a href="http://blogs.computerworld.com/19258/kindle_fire_review_roundup_amazin_amazon_tablet_or_dud_ipad_wannabe">reviews have already started piling up</a>.