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BlackBerry PlayBook: Beware of the demo-ware tablet The BlackBerry PlayBook looks flashy and has excellent specs, but it's still a long way from coming to market and it may fall short in the four areas where a tablet needs to excel. Read more Resource of the day Best Practices for Deploying Collaborative BI This white paper discusses ways to navigate hurdles in order to deliver collaborative BI that works. You'll discover next generation BI tools that can react in real-time and that are accessible via the Web to appeal to today's generation of users. More from TechRepublic   Productivity shouldn't be the goal in motivating staff If you think running a canned program to increase employee satisfaction is going to increase productivity, you might have another thing coming. Read more Separating development and production servers: The original multi-tenancy Today’s converged infrastructure solutions combine network, server, and storage resources to a scale that may not be a good fit for every organization. IT pro Rick Vanover takes plays from the enterprise offerings to apply to smaller environments. Read more News from ZDNet   BlackBerry PlayBook: Hot Hardware, But At What Price? Type in BlackBerryPlayBook.com and you'll end up eyeballing probably the most gadget-licious tablet announced yet. What has bloggers so lathered up, when the iPad is riding so high and a wave of Android tablets are coming soon? A recap of the relevant specs explains why. - First tablet announced with... Read more OpenOffice.org forsakes Oracle, forms new foundation and fork It comes as no surprise that longtime backers of OpenOffice.org are taking control over the open source project from Oracle, its new owner. On Tuesday, the OpenOffice.org community announced the formation of the Document Foundation and the re-release of OpenOffice code under a new brand name -- LibreOffice. OpenOffice was... Read more RIM aims to defend enterprise turf; Eyes 'super apps' for business Research in Motion has launched middleware and an application development platform designed to build "super apps" for the enterprise. RIM has partnered with IBM, Oracle and SAP to develop mobile enterprise apps. Read more Malware attacks force MS to ship emergency ASP.net patch Microsoft plans to ship an out-of-band security update tomorrow (September 28, 2010) to fix a serious ASP.net vulnerability that's being exploited in the wild. Read more Updated: Will the Kno Tablet finally make e-textbooks mainstream? The 14.1" Kno tablet will either be the Ed Tech holy grail or just one more failed ebook startup in a world that still likes killing trees. Read more And the ideal size for a tablet is ... What's the ideal size for a tablet computer? Read more How to build the perfect Android tablet, part 5: The price of perfection Previous installments have been all about the features. But how much is this thing going to cost? In one sense, Apple has made the answer easy. Read more Meet the new Microsoft: We don't have to do everything Microsoft's move to transition Windows Live Spaces customers to Wordpress.com is another sign that the company doesn't have to be all things to all people. It's a positive turn for Microsoft. Read more Mac Pro: Apple (finally) addresses problems with some ATI X1900 XT video cards In a recent support note, Apple offers to replace certain, problem ATI X1900 XT video cards found in a range of older Mac Pros. Users had complained for several years of distorted video from the cards. Read more Apple using retail stores to target SMB market A new sign of greater acceptance by business customers of Apple and the Macintosh is Cupertino's growing interest in that once 100 percent PC market. Apple is expanding its sales support operation to businesses as well as adding business-centric sections to its retail stores. Read more HP's datacenters go Cisco free HP stands by their promise to rid themselves of the shackles of Cisco. But is this anythng beyond a marketing statement? Read more Should our public libraries be outsourced? Guess what? It's already happening. What do you think? Should private companies take over our public libraries? Read more New Apple TV starts shipping--will AirPlay work? I purchased an Apple TV on announcement day. There's one main feature I'm interested in: AirPlay. Now the question is whether or not I can actually try it out before November. Read more Featured multimedia   Apple Cinema Display 27-inch shots Shots of Apple's new Cinema Display. View on site The toys of 'Tron: Legacy' (photos) The sequel to "Tron" hits theaters this December, and what would any movie be these days without some tie-in toys? Here are just a few of the techie ones that will be available. View on site Popular Mechanics picks products that break the mold (photos) From electric cars to the latest smartphones, winners of the magazine's sixth annual Breakthrough Awards showcase the best of tech innovation. View on site RIM BlackBerry PlayBook (photos) RIM unveils its first tablet at DevCon 2010. Check out photos of the BlackBerry PlayBook here. View on site A real-life 'Iron Man' suit (photos) Defense contractor Raytheon Sarcos unveils its XOS 2 exoskeleton as part of an "Iron Man 2" DVD and Blu-ray release promotion. 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