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• Yahoo! ditches digital newsstand for iPads

  Yahoo! has dumped its fledgling digital newsstand for iPads, as it begins a product purge intended to make the floundering internet pioneer more nimble.

• Lenovo's tablet shipments grow in China with low-priced products

  PC maker Lenovo has used a basement price strategy in China to become the country's second largest tablet vendor, coming ahead of rivals offering Android-based products, according to research firm IDC.

• Updated SDK from Soti allows businesses to remotely control Apple mobile devices

  Businesses can now remotely control enterprise mobile applications developed for Apple's mobile platform with the latest version of Soti's MobiControl Software Developer Kit for iOS, announced Tuesday.

• Windows RT management could be a key to success for Windows 8 tablets

  IT management executives from large corporations worry most about how to manage employee-owned devices safely and securely, according to clients of the Directions on Microsoft analyst firm.

• An OS for the home and cool Kickstarter projects

  This week we start with something that has both intrigued and amused me: Microsoft Research has a new operating system in the works targeted at home automation called, with glaring dullness, HomeOS.

• No tablet comes close to touching iPad: iSuppli

  After a brief dip in late 2011, the Apple iPad has firmly reasserted its position as the dominant player in the tablet market.

• SAP rolls out new mobile apps, boosts HTML5, iOS, Android support

  SAP on Monday unveiled a series of mobile applications covering areas such as expense management and e-learning, as well as improved support for iOS and Android devices. The announcements came at the start of the vendor's Sapphire conference in Orlando.

• Apple misled consumers with iPad 4G claims: ACCC

  Apple has stopped promoting its new iPad as 4G compatible in Australia following an application in the Federal Court in March 2012 by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) over misleading advertisements.

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  Review: AppMobi XDK brings more style than substance to iPhone, Android development

  Despite the gold-rush atmosphere around mobile application development, you won't find many newbie-friendly tools aligned to help nonprogrammers mine for application riches. Even if the target platforms often seem like toys, most of the development kits are still developer-minded and code-centric, and they can present formidable hurdles to the uninitiated.

• The iPad as a tool of orangutan liberation

  Churning through the World Wide Web you come across tons of "cute iPad" stories -- this one from the Associated Press, with a very slight twist on a story that actually surfaced in January: apes using iPads.

• 3LM, Symantec and Wyse all aim to simplify management of mobile devices

  At three different events in three different U.S. cities 3LM, Symantec and Wyse Technology are all showing upgraded or new products to help IT staff better cope with the smartphones, tablets and other devices users are allowed to bring to work.

• Will BYOD revive the network-access control idea? Gartner thinks it will

  Is the BYOD craze going to bring a revival of NAC, the policy-based network-access control that was hyped a decade ago but didn't end up widely adopted for endpoint security?

• iPad share of tablet market jumps as Kindle Fire slumps

  Apple's iPad reclaimed a larger share of the global tablet market last month, in part because of a more-serious-than-expected slump in sales of the hot Kindle Fire in the first quarter, IDC analysts said today.

• Download InfoWorld's special report on IT consumerization

  By now, IT has seen a stream of smartphones, tablets, laptops, and more enter the business. There's no stopping the consumerization trend, but IT can ease the transition and its own workload.

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  Android breaks crucial 50 per cent of smartphones in use: comScore

  Android may be lagging behind in the enterprise market, but in the consumer market it's still going full speed ahead.