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PlayBook carries RIM's hopes that the device will vault it over Android and Apple's iPad, to position it as a tablet of choice. However, RIM's answer to Apple's iPad and Motorola Xoom and hundreds of other tablets comes in bit late.

Apple has updated iOS 4.3.2 to fix Comodo SSL vulnerability that occurred in March.

Research In Motion's new Playbook received mixed reviews ahead of launch on April 19.

The unfinished feel of the BlackBerry Playbook is shared with many of its competitors.

California-based Ubermedia, which has made several apps for the Twitter platform, is said to be working on a competitor to the micro blogging website, which recently rejected two of its apps.

Ubermedia, which has made several apps for Twitter, is said to be planning a competitor to the micro blogging website.

The BlackBerry PlayBook is to hit stores by April 19. While the new gadget is smaller than most other tablets, especially the iPad 2, it might just remain a good attempt from RIM to get into the tablet war. But the question remains whether it will be a capable player in the market.

Apple could be planning to launch the white version of iPhone 4 to fill a gap in its product launch cycle and thereby mitigate customer fatigue over waiting for the new iPhone 5. The next generation iPhone would have made it to the stores in June this year; but the latest news is that Apple may not launch iPhone 5 until September this year, when the company starts its forthcoming financial year.

Much of the effort at equipping the next iteration of the iPad with WiFi syncing comes from Steve Jobs himself, who is pushing hard for the technology.

Glasses-free 3D experience now comes to Apple iPad 2, courtesy, a group of French researchers who used the front-facing iPad 2 camera to gauge how a user is looking at the screen to project 3D image.

In order to take on Apple's slimmer and lighter iPad 2 Amazon announced the launch of a cheaper Kindle which lends its screen space to advertisers and sponsors.

iPad users can now subscribe for Bloomberg Business week through a new app called Business week plus. This app will deliver the user with global news updates and market trends. It will also provide updates on the companies mentioned in articles.

Google is working towards crafting a tablet version of its light-weight, browser-based Chrome OS in its attempt to act as a catalyst to trigger creation of quality web apps to counter apps created for closed-walled companies like Apple and Microsoft.

Gartner estimates point to Apple's iOS grabbing nearly seventy percent of the market in 2011, a command that won't noticeably decrease until 2015, when it will drop to 47 percent.

Apple's iOS operating system will continue to dominate the worldwide media tablet through 2015, research firm Gartner said.

While Microsoft's Bing struggles to equal Google in terms of search ads, Facebook is slowly catching up in the race.

Toshiba has put a “coming soon” on its website detailing the features of the new tablet it is goin to launch. The market is getting over crowded with players like Motorola, Samsung, Acer with Apple as the king ruling them. Acer is to launch its tablet, Iconia, on 24 April.

Shares of Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) touched a new 2-year high of $73.19 on Friday. The company said it has filed a request for declaratory judgment relating to Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA) cable networks.

The promise of seamless connectivity from Verizon seems to have eluded the owners of iPad 2 as Apple confirmed that Verizon iPad 2 owners are having problems connecting to Verizon Wireless 3G data network

The Auburn School committee has decided to pilot test the use of the latest Apple iPad2 as a tool for learning for kindergarteners in Maine School district. Children will soon be digitally literate as well,in fact more literate than their parents themselves.

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