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• Smaller iPad could be a better business tool

  The Apple iPad has been an unqualified success with consumers, but it's a harder sell in the businesse market.

• Nokia launches new assault in patent battle, your move Apple

  If Apple was expecting Nokia to back down and retract its patent lawsuit after Apple countersued, apparently Nokia didn't get the memo. Nokia has launched a fresh assault, filing a new complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) alleging that virtually every product Apple makes violates seven patents held by it.

• Apple and Microsoft: tour de smartphone force for iPhone

  "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

• Smartphone battery life: 20 ways to juice it up

  It's difficult enough to keep plain-vanilla mobile phones charged for a busy day of just talking. But these days, we also use our smartphones for e-mail, surfing the Web, editing documents, accessing corporate networks, text messaging, enjoying music and video, playing games, managing our personal information and much more -- making it all the more catastrophic when our devices run out of juice.