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• UPDATED: HP slashes 27,000 jobs as part of restructuring program

  It's official. Hewlett-Packard will cut 27,000 employees as part of its long-term restructuring plan, the company said when it announced quarterly financial results.

• Revisiting RDP, discovering ReactOS, and finding Mindjet

  A second look at Microsoft's RDP client, considers a replacement for Windows XP, and delves into "Mind Mapping"

• 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.

• 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.

• In Pictures: Top 10 performance desktop PCs

  Intel's Sandy Bridge processors are still the popular kids on the block, but the new Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition has arrived, taking top honours on our performance PC benchmarks.

• Kindle Fire now accounts for more than half of U.S. Android tablets

  When people refer to "Android tablets" they may soon just be referring to the Amazon Kindle Fire.

• Apple blowing Android away in enterprise adoption

  With BlackBerry on the decline, there's a battle heating up for enterprise smartphone users and so far Apple is winning in a big way.

• Canonical gears Linux upgrade to the cloud

  Canonical is focusing on cloud deployments with an upgrade to its Ubuntu Linux distribution being unveiled on Thursday.

• In Pictures: Intel’s new Ivy Bridge chips

  Nano-transistors powering big gains in power, efficiency

• Embracing mobile site visitors: Early detection is best

  The ubiquity of mobile devices, the shift to "choose it yourself" top-level domains and the availability of internationalized domain names will profoundly impact the relationship between your network and your network users. In this biweekly column, Ram Mohan, a non-voting ICANN board member and "Security and Stability Advisory Committee Liaison," chronicles these and other developments.

• Windows RT tablets will add to the BYOD nightmare

  If supporting iPads makes IT pros lose sleep at night, the Windows 8 tablet edition won't be any better.

• In Pictures: 10 PC apps to increase your business productivity

  The tech world is full of seemingly little apps that can make a huge difference in your work life. But how do you find them? To help you get started, we've drawn up a list of 10 indispensable PC applications to help you work smarter.

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  Raspberry Pi hits the shelves – briefly

  The first wave of Raspberry Pi computers -- credit card-size devices that are designed to serve as teaching aids -- shipped this weekend after a series of delays. However, manufacturer RF Technologies is already out of stock again.

• Dell's buying frenzy might not be over yet

  While Dell's recent string of new acquisitions probably won't continue at the same breakneck pace that has been seen over the past several weeks, experts agree that the company is in the midst of a major strategic shift.

• Google Nexus tablet must avoid getting dragged into 'specs war'

  By now you know the drill: a company releases a new tablet or smartphone that has the fastest processor, sharpest screen resolution and sleekest design of anyone else on the market.