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| Editor's note: It's going to be tablet overload in 2011. Feel free to ignore most of them. I've put together a list of 10 that are worth your attention. Also, check out Intel's massive chip recall and a new report that says IT managers are getting more influential. -Jason The 10 hottest tablets worth waiting for in 2011 There are an obscene number of new tablets coming to market in 2011. Plenty of them are safe to ignore. Here are 10 that are worth anticipating. Read more Photos: The 10 hottest tablets coming in 2011 
| News from ZDNet | | | Intel hit with chipset design flaw in Sandy Bridge rollout If you just purchased a system powered by Intel's Core i5 or i7 chipset, get ready for a return or repair. Intel has a chipset issue that affects the launch of Sandy Bridge. Read more | | More IT managers involved in strategic planning, survey says More IT involvement in high-level planning due to cloud, social media, or something else? Read more | | WikiLeaks Assange: U.S. doesn't have the technology to take us down WikiLeaks sat down with 60 Minutes Julian Assange and said that the U.S. government couldn't take the site down if it wanted to. That's "just the way our technology is constructed," he said. Read more | | Google hiring mobile app developers...And 6000 other Googlers If developers won't come to Google, then Google will go to the developers. Or at least hire them. Read more | | India insists upon BlackBerry corporate email spying capability The Indian government is insisting that it must be able to intercept corporate email messages, something which Research in Motion says it cannot provide. The stand-off continues. Read more | | Need for speed: AMD touts carbon-shrinking potential of new chip Talk about great (unexpected) timing for a marketing campaign. As Intel grapples with a chipset design flaw, arch-rival Advanced Micro Devices is touting the ability of its new AMD E-350... Read more | | Android ruled 2010, but 2011 gains may be harder to come by Android took over the mobile landscape. However, 2011 may tell a more interesting tale. Read more | | Android's tablet splash: The jury is still out Android's fourth quarter explosive growth and Apple's marketshare dip makes for a good headline - but what do the numbers really mean? Read more | | Samsung comes clean, Galaxy Tab numbers not consumer sales The two million Galaxy Tabs previously reported by Samsung as sales, and reported on this blog, is really the number of units "sold" into the partner distribution system, and not consumer sales. Read more | | World's 1st exabyte storage system Exabyte? That's 1,000 Petabytes, 1,000,000 Terabytes or 1 billion Gigabytes. 1 EB is a big number, but that's not the most impressive thing about the new technology Read more | | US Air Force seeks SOA approach to integrate air and space systems Will service orienting the US Air Force's command-and control systems can help those systems interoperate as one, big virtual system? We'll soon find out. Read more | | Researcher demos SMS-based smartphone botnet SchmooCon 2011: A security researcher has demonstrated an Android based, SMS-driven smartphone botnet. Read more | | Dell Streak 7 launching this week with T-Mobile for $199.99 on contract The Dell Streak 7 tablet computer is coming to T-Mobile this week for a fairly friendly price. Well, it's only friendly with a two-year service agreement. Read more |
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