Apple relaxes app rules; Office for iPad; Very Best Kit List; Top 5 camcorders [TECH UPDATE]

Today's Top Picks   Apple throws developers a bone, relaxes restrictions on third party tools In a move that may be welcome news for users of Adobe's Creative Suite, Apple said Thursday that it will relax restrictions on its App Store review guidelines. READ FULL STORY   Recommended What are the highest paying job roles? IT Professionals - Find out in the 2010 activeTechPros IT salary & skills report. Be a member for free access. * * * * * * * * * * * * Business Professionals Join activeBizPros and identify the highest paying job roles in your country with our salary benchmark wizard.   Office for the iPad? Or are Office Web Apps good enough? If and until Microsoft decides to deliver Office on new platforms and devices, the "best" way to get Office on more than just your Windows PC or Mac is via Office Web Apps. READ FULL STORY   Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for Sep/Oct 2010 Welcome to the Hardware 2.0 "Very Best Kit List" for September/October 2010. Here I've put together a list of the best high-end and mid-range and budget components currently available. READ FULL STORY   Let My Smartphone Go! Good and bad: Separating mobile devices from exclusive contracts with cellular providers. READ FULL STORY   Recommended What are the highest paying job roles? IT Professionals - Find out in the 2010 activeTechPros IT salary & skills report. Be a member for free access. * * * * * * * * * * * * Business Professionals Join activeBizPros and identify the highest paying job roles in your country with our salary benchmark wizard.   How does Google Instant adapt to users? And does it change the search experience? How will Google Instant change your search habits? More importantly, how does Google Instant adapt to your queries? We conducted our own experiment. READ FULL STORY   Twitter, Facebook and the tornado Social networks are 800lb gorillas trampling all over the sensibilities of their users as they get bigger, and the crowd is letting them get away with it. READ FULL STORY Top 5 most promising digital camcorder releases this fall Following last week's closer look at the most promising digital cameras available this fall, here's a take on the top five intriguing digital camcorders hitting shelves over the next few months. READ FULL STORY Here comes the retail e-reader showdown: Best Buy to stock Amazon's Kindle Comparing e-reader devices in real life settings hasn't exactly been easy, but that's about to change pronto. Best Buy will stock the Amazon Kindle this fall. READ FULL STORY This is the holy grail for SEO: The Google "Instant" alphabet - A is for Amazon... B is for Best Buy... Google's new search function has created an alphabet of commercial giants. Good luck muscling into this pack. READ FULL STORY Review: The Apple iPod touch brings many iPhone 4 features without the carrier There are many of us who want to stick with our wireless carrier, yet still would like to experience the latest Apple touchscreen device. READ FULL STORY Microsoft to deliver public betas of CRM 2011 and app store in mid-September Microsoft is signing up testers, as of September 9, who want to kick the tires of the company's next-generation CRM software, service and app store. READ FULL STORY Tech execs betting on enterprise mobility; Apple's iOS, Android ride along Sixty-two percent of chief information officers and technology leaders see mobile technology as a high priority for the upcoming budget year, according to Forrester Research. READ FULL STORY   Top SmartPlanet Pick   NASA plans to fly a spacecraft directly into the sun Before you ask--yes, there actually are practical reasons to fly a spacecraft into the sun. READ FULL STORY Want more? Sign up for SmartPlanet's daily newsletter   Hot Topic Spotlight   Wireless call quality matters and that's bad news for AT&T, good for Verizon, Sprint When it comes to dropped mobile calls, the wireless industry is a lot like real estate: It's all about location, according to a J.D. Power study. READ FULL STORY More talked-about posts: Tech execs betting on enterprise mobility; Apple's iOS, Android ride along Netbooks - err mini-notebooks - falling fast Featured Photo Gallery   Hands-on with the 4th generation Apple iPod touch There are many of us who want to stick with our wireless carrier, yet still would like to experience the latest Apple touchscreen device. Thankfully, Apple launched the iPod touch in three different capacities and it provides consumers with the high resolution retina display, A4 processor, iOS 4.1, and HD video camera. VIEW THE GALLERY More photo galleries: Apple iPod Shuffle 4th Generation Teardown Learning the ABCs with Google Instant Featured Product Coverage   Quo Computers' liquid-cooled Core i7 maxQ2 runs OS X, Linux, Windows 7 ... until Apple says otherwise In theory, there's no reason you can't run Apple's OS X on non-Apple hardware, since Macs are using the same Intel processors as many PCs do. READ FULL STORY More product coverage: Hands-on review: iPhone Patch AT&T solving coverage issues with 850 overlay and new cell sites Like gadgets? 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