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• Sony Android Tablet S hits Australia

  Sony's 9.4-inch, Android-based tablet will be available in Australia from tomorrow.

• SLIDESHOW: CIO Roundtable - mobile devices and BYOT

  Photos from the lunch, sponsored by Motorola Mobility

• Asus launches its Eee Pad Slider tablet in Australia

  Asus has launched its latest tablet in Australia: The Eee Pad Slider.

• Your Company and the Tablet Revolution

  While there are risks involved, there is little question this consumerization of IT will slow down anytime soon, and smart companies realize it is better to try to channel the tide than fight it

• Acer tablets to deliver e-books to Australian high school students

  A paperless classroom could be one step closer, with Acer announcing plans to deliver e-books to Australian secondary school students via its Iconia Tab range.

• What's next for Apple?

  Apple for years rallied around its charismatic co-founder, Steve Jobs, so it's only natural now to question whether the company can retain its market dominance and magic with a new leader.

• Fujitsu crashes enterprise tablet party with secure browser

  Fujitsu has released a new tablet and mobile security browser aimed at scrubbing the oft-lost devices of valuable data.

• Apple kyboshes Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Australian release

  Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 won't launch in Australia until a patent stoush with Apple is resolved. According to a Bloomberg report, a lawyer for Apple yesterday told Federal Court Justice Annabelle Bennett that Samsung's tablet infringes 10 patents held by Apple.

• HP webOS TouchPad coming to Harvey Norman August 15

  HP has announced the local availability of its new webOS-powered TouchPad tablet PC with Harvey Norman set to offer the device from August 15 starting at $599.
  

• Lenovo targets business with ThinkPad Tablet

  Lenovo has unveiled a new Android-based tablet targeted at business customers. The Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet is equipped with a 10.1-inch, 1280x800-pixel touchscreen and runs version 3.1 of Google's Android OS ('Honeycomb'). The company has also released a consumer-focused 10.1-ihnch tablet dubbed the IdeaPad Tablet K1.

• CommBank updates mobile apps, eyes social payments

  The CommonWealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has updated is suite of mobile banking applications with native apps for the iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone and the browser-based HTML5, with technology for near field communications (NFC) and social payments on the way.

• Acer Android tablets get Honeycomb 3.1 upgrade

  Acer has joined Motorola in announcing an upgrade to Android 'Honeycomb' 3.1 for its Iconia tablet PCs beginning this week.
  

• Motorola debuts Wi-Fi Xoom tablet with Android 3.1

  Nearly two months after it announced the first Xoom tablet to the Australian market, Motorola has followed it up with the release of a Wi-Fi-only version running Android 3.1 'Honeycomb'.
  

• Apple's iPad owns tablet market, but competitors abound

  Apple's iPad owns the tablet market, according to a new study of Internet traffic in the U.S., but that doesn't mean the competition is going away.

• CIOs have lost the battle against 'bring your own technology'

  CIOs have lost the battle to control the consumerisation of IT, with an increase in bring-your-own-technology schemes (BYOT) cropping up around Australia.