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• Tablet users more engaged with online banking

  Online bank ING Direct has found that customers who use a tablet device to access its services are likely to be more engaged, with higher savings balances and more products than non-tablet users.
  

• DHS to roll out network ‘stress testing’ for agencies

  The Department of Human Services (DHS) has tendered for testing and network infrastructure to benchmark and validate changes to its data centre to support the integration of Centrelink, Medicare and CRS Australia.

• New iPad rumor rollup for week ending April 23

  iPad rumors have been rare for months, but April showers seemed to have caused them to burst into bloom.

• Gartner: Microsoft sells more tablets in 2013, still lags far behind Android, iOS

  Microsoft sold more than double the tablets last year than it did the year before but still wound up with just 2.1% of total sales, according to Gartner.

• Android tablets to outsell Apple iPads by 2015

  Tablet computers based on the Android operating system will outsell Apple iPads in Australia by 2015, research firm Telsyte has predicted.
  

• iPad 5 rumour rollup for the week ending August 14

  The iOSphere is still conflicted over the iPad 5 and iPad mini dates, whether it's the start date for mass manufacturing, for the product announcement, or the availability. Eventually, someone is bound to be right.

• iPad 5 rumour rollup for the week ending July 3

  We believe Apple will introduce the iPad 5 at a separate event in October, just like last year, and push the release date of the iPad 5, as well as the sequel to last year's iPad Mini, to late October 2013.

• iPad 5 rumour rollup for the week ending March 13

  The iOSphere rumor machine for the iPad 5 is running on vapors, given that some were predicting as of last week that the Next iPad will be released "April-ish".

• Case study: Parade College overhauls network for iPad program

  Bringing tablets to the classroom has enhanced education but created networking challenges for Parade College, according to the school’s IT manager, Daniel Caporetto.

• Apple iPad mini: All the Aussie details

  Apple has finally lifted the lid on the iPad mini? Should you buy it and when will it be available in Australia?

• Monday Grok: Samsung out-lawyers Apple, Galaxy goes on sale

  At last, Samsung gets to sell some Galaxy tablets. Of course, that doesn't mean anyone will buy them. But at least now, with just under a fortnight left until Christmas, it has a fighting chance. More to the point, Apple, for now, has to fight its battles at the cash registers, and not in the Federal Court.

• Kindle Fire creates dilemma for Android

  The Amazon Kindle Fire is living up to its name by setting the tablet market on fire. Pre-orders of the as yet unreleased tablet have been phenomenal. The success of the Kindle Fire, however, puts Android tablets in general between a rock and a hard place.

• iOS 5.0.1 brings battery fix to iPhone 4S, multitasking gestures to original iPad

  Apple is taking its new over-the-air update system for a spin today with iOS 5.0.1. The company expects the update to squash battery-draining bugs in the iPhone 4S and add multitasking gestures to the iPad.

• 5 hidden features in iOS 5

  Who knew Apple's iOS 5 mobile operating system held so many secrets? Developers and sleuthing hackers have been hard at work since Apple released the OS in October unearthing a number of hidden features and tweaking the OS to do things it was never intended to do.

• Study says Kindle Fire will 'delay' iPad purchases - or does it?

  New research suggests the Kindle Fire could chomp into over a quarter of the iPad's sales - an impressive feat, considering Apple's iPad currently has 67 per cent dominance over the tablet market.