The Folio 100, Toshiba's entry into the tablet race at the Internationale Funkaustellung (IFA) trade show in Berlin, comes with Android version 2.2 like the competition, but the company has opted for a larger 10.1-inch capacitive touchscreen.
The larger screen size comes at a cost -- the Folio 100 weighs 760 grams, compared to the Samsung Galaxy Tab, which has a 7-inch screen and weighs 380 grams. It will be up to consumers to choose between screen size and portability.
Palm has breathlessly announced "webOS 2.0, the next generation of Palm's amazing mobile operating system!" This wonder, currently in beta for registered developers, will include Stacks, the "next-generation of multi-tasking"; Just Type, a renamed and enhanced version of Universal Search; Exhibition, a way to write applications that only run when the webOS phone is docked in the Palm Touchstone; Synergy, a former system integration feature now available
Google Wave, the social networking service canceled by Google, will morph into an application bundle for real-time collaboration, a Google engineer said this week.
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Of the 135 people Fortune 500 employees targeted by social engineering hackers in a recent contest only five of them refused to give up any corporate information whatsoever. And guess what? All five were women.
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