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• 150m passenger cars will connected to the Internet by 2020

  In just five years, most cars and trucks will be connected to the Internet, according to a report from Gartner Inc.

• Carmakers put Apple's CarPlay in the slow lane

  Some car manufacturers are delaying their rollout of CarPlay, the software platform from Apple that synchronizes an iPhone to a vehicle's infotainment system.

• Apple's CarPlay to dominate infotainment systems, will be in 24m cars by 2019

  Apple's API for in-car mobile devices, better known as CarPlay, will outpace both the open API MirrorLink and GENIVI.

• Your smartwatch probably uses a smartphone or a tablet processor

  Teardowns of more than a dozen smartwatches now on the market show that some models use processors originally designed for smartphones or tablets, according to ABI Research.

• How to Use Your Android Tablet at Work

  Tablets offer long battery life and portability, so why not ditch your laptop in favor of a tablet? Here, then, are some tips for using an Android tablet in the office -- and beyond.

• Apple wins top score for App Store

  Apple's App Store had the top score among mobile application storefronts ranked by ABI Research, but Microsoft's Windows Store narrowly beat the field for its degree of innovation.

• Microsoft promises not to ditch Mac, iPhone, Android Skype users

  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today promised that the company would continue to develop and support Skype on rival platforms.

• Apple trumpets iPad cannibalization

  Apple yesterday made its strongest statement yet that soaring iPad sales are affecting the laptop market, saying that the problem should concern its rivals.

• 4G to cover more than 4 billion people by 2015

  More than 60 per cent of the world's population will have access to some form of 4G mobile broadband technology by 2015, according to a new report from ABI Research.

• What to expect from next month's Verizon LTE launch

  Now that Verizon has started cranking up its hype machine for its LTE commercial launch next month, it's fair to wonder just what types of devices will run on the network.

• Emerging tech: Disaster-proof your mobile app before rollout

  So you've created an iPhone enterprise app, and your sales folks and executives are thrilled. They want more functionality, say, tapping into location-based services or-gulp!-using the camera to capture product images. A few people are requesting the app run on their brand new Droids. Now the CEO wants the app on his soon-to-be-available BlackBerry PlayBook tablet.

• Green gadget chargers go massive

  Markets for advanced charging technologies (including solar-powered handsets, solar chargers, wireless power units, fuel-cell battery charging products and public charging kiosks), worth about $1.5 billion in 2010, are forecast to grow at a robust Compound Annual Growth Rate of more than 86 percent to exceed $34 billion in 2015.