| Editor's note: This is the email formerly known as IT News Digest. You may need to adjust your email filters. Today we've got my updated ranking of the iPad's top competitors. Also, check out Facebook's nefarious email domination scheme. -Jason iPad competitors: The top 20 to watch [UPDATED] The Apple iPad has re-energized the market for tablets but it has gone most of 2010 with nary a competitor. That's changing. Here's an updated list of 20 upstarts taking aim at the iPad. Read more Slide show: 20 iPad competitors to watch [UPDATED] 
| News from ZDNet | | | Facebook's new messaging system: More than just email? Facebook today launched a new messaging system that rethinks how people communicate and tries to take communications beyond everyday e-mail. Read more | | Facebook cannot guarantee privacy: Why is the 'social inbox' so different? Facebook's announcement today described the new consolidated messaging platform. With everything being recorded 'for your own benefit', has Facebook become the Big Brother of social networks? Read more | | Apple teases big iTunes announcement tomorrow Tomorrow might be a big day for iTunes, at least according to the teaser splash page on Apple's website right now. Read more | | AMD joins MeeGo effort AMD has joined the MeeGo open source Linux project to become more involved with the mobile operating system. Read more | | Who's the biggest U.S. e-mail service of them all? (Hint: It's not Gmail) On the day Facebook is expected to throw its hat into the crowded and competitive e-mail ring, it's worth noting what the current landscape looks like. Read more | | HP Mini 1103 netbook debuts for business professionals; $299 Hewlett-Packard has unveiled the HP Mini 1103, a no-frills and sleek netbook for business road warriors. Read more | | ViewSonic ViewPad 7 tablet up for pre-order on Amazon ViewSonic's entry into the tablet market, the ViewPad 7, is now on pre-sale over at Amazon, but the price isn't such a bargain. Read more | | The Apple-Oracle plot against open source When they ran off to competitors Oracle bought them. When that competitor was open source Oracle bought them. What the community thinks is open source can be taken back. Open source lives by the contract and it will die by the contract. Read more | | Disaster: What happens when you buy an Android tablet at Walgreens Android tablets should be cheap. Just not THIS cheap. Read more | | Comcast launching free Xfinity TV App for iPad this week Controlling on demand TV content on-the-go is getting even easier, at least if you're a Comcast customer. The cable provider is launching the Xfinity TV App for iPad. Read more | | Brookstone pillow doubles as 6-in-one remote control If you're looking to minimize the items in your living room's home entertainment set-up, here's an idea: a pillow remote control. Seriously. Read more | | Hacked Microsoft Kinect now works with Mac OS X Well, OK, sort of, but it's progress nonetheless. Read more |
|  | | About this newsletter | The Sanity Check newsletter is my daily update on the technology world. You'll get my opinions, rants, reviews, user polls, and hand-picked stories of the day. Jason Hiner
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