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	Elgan: Will tablets soon be free? The path to success for iPad competitors is low, low pricing. And the best way to get there is probably aggressive subsidies, writes columnist Mike Elgan. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: FileMaker Resource: iOS White Paper and Deployment Kit Quickly Develop and Deploy iOS Solutions. With FileMaker Pro, iPad and iPhone solutions can be prototyped and completed in hours or days versus weeks or months. No iOS application programming or design experience is required. Read the white paper and download the kit. In this Issue Jonny Evans: Apple iPhone 5 ships October, claims rumor machine Big is not always better with smartphone screens Preston Gralla: Microsoft -- Windows Phone 7 will grab more than 20% of smartphone market by 2015 Who loves webOS? Not Samsung, not anyone Samsung's U.S. plans for new Galaxy Note and Tab 7.7 remain unclear Apple rules phone, tablet browsing market BlackBerry PlayBook goes on sale for weekend Verizon starts Droid 2 upgrade to Gingerbread Flood of low-cost tablets expected in $200 to $300 range IT Blogwatch: Windows Phone 7 "tracks your movements," says lawsuit Nielsen: Android grows, RIM draws attention Experts: AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile may not be dead yet Preston Gralla: Nowhere to go but up -- survey shows Windows Phone 7 with 1% of U.S. smartphone market Samsung reveals Android-based notepad, updates tablet WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation The Efficiency Essentials You're Dead Without This white paper takes you inside Diskeeper 2011 and clearly shows you why you shouldn't run your network without it. Learn more. Jonny Evans: Apple iPhone 5 ships October, claims rumor machine With classic clumsy style I dropped my iPhone this morning and smashed its display. This means I'm so in the market for a new one: good news then that iPhone 5 production has begun and it looks likely to reach us next month (October). Read More Big is not always better with smartphone screens Product launches at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin are giving consumers an unprecedented choice of screen sizes. But analysts are questioning whether consumers can learn to love them all. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft -- Windows Phone 7 will grab more than 20% of smartphone market by 2015 The reports of Windows Phone 7's slow death are thoroughly off-base, says Achim Berg, head of Windows Phone marketing, and predicts that Windows Phone 7 will rocket to more than 20% of the worldwide smartphone market by 2015. It seems unlikely, but Berg says he has facts and plans to back it up. Read More Who loves webOS? Not Samsung, not anyone More and more, webOS seems like an operating system that not even its own mother could love. Read More Samsung's U.S. plans for new Galaxy Note and Tab 7.7 remain unclear Samsung has 'no plans' to bring its new, stylish Galaxy Note and Galaxy Tab 7.7 devices to the U.S. market, according to a blogger reporting from the IFA event in Berlin. Read More Apple rules phone, tablet browsing market Mobile browsing has more than doubled in the last year and now accounts for over 6% of all online activity. Read More BlackBerry PlayBook goes on sale for weekend Best Buy is offering discounts of $50 to $150 on all models of the 7-inch BlackBerry PlayBook through Monday. Read More WEBCAST: Websense, Inc. New Websense TRITON Unveiled As technology continues to improve, businesses are faced with attacks from every angle. We are no longer faced with simple, one-dimensional threats, but advanced persistent threats that attack from every platform. Learn more. Verizon starts Droid 2 upgrade to Gingerbread Verizon Wireless Thursday began pushing the Android Gingerbread OS upgrade to users of the popular Droid 2 smartphone. Read More Flood of low-cost tablets expected in $200 to $300 range Analysts are predicting that a flood of $200 to $300 tablet computers will hit the market this fall, prompting the essential question: Which device will come out on top? Read More IT Blogwatch: Windows Phone 7 "tracks your movements," says lawsuit A lawsuit alleges the the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 operating system tracks users' location without permission. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers get deja-vu all over again. Read More Nielsen: Android grows, RIM draws attention Google's Android OS continues to gain on both Apple iOS and Research In Motion's BlackBerry platform in the growing U.S. smartphone market, but often stodgy RIM is on the wish lists of some cutting-edge buyers, according to the Nielsen research company. Read More Experts: AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile may not be dead yet AT&T still has options after the U.S. DOJ filed a lawsuit in opposition to the company's planned acquisition of T-Mobile USA. Read More Preston Gralla: Nowhere to go but up -- survey shows Windows Phone 7 with 1% of U.S. smartphone market Here's more evidence about how tough it will be for Microsoft to make Windows Phone 7 a success -- a just-released Nielsen survey shows it has a paltry 1% of the share of the U.S. smartphone market. And Nokia may not be much help, because a Nielsen survey from a month ago shows that company with only 2% of the U.S. smartphone market. Read More Samsung reveals Android-based notepad, updates tablet Samsung is expanding its Galaxy family of Android-based devices with the Note, which allows users to write directly on the device's screen with a digital pen. Read More
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