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• Android 3.0 tablet: Five key features

  Tablet application developers can rejoice now that Google has released its software development kit for Android 3.0, the new edition of the platform designed specifically for tablets.

• Networking gets faster, more media-savvy

  Home is where the network is: That's the mantra of networking vendors at the Consumer Electronics Show 2011 in Las Vegas this week.

• Why Intel's Infineon buy is a smart move

  Intel has been on a buying binge lately. Just two weeks ago the world's largest chip maker agreed to acquire security vendor McAfee for $7.68 billion, and today it announced plans to buy Infineon Technologies' Wireless Solutions (WLS) division for $1.4 billion.

• RFID tags arrive on store floor as retailers go after ROI

  For the retailing industry, the adoption of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology this decade has been one long, strange journey: Periods of irrational exuberance followed by times of great frustration and confusion; expensive pilot projects riddled with technical, standards-based and cost complexities; and a widespread belief among those retailers or CPG manufacturers that were forced into the RFID universe that it is a technology solution in search of a problem.

• Wi-Fi WPA2 vulnerability FAQ

  So this guy at AirTight Networks says Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 has a "hard shell on the outside, but a soft underbelly inside"due to an overlooked vulnerability, and an attacker can decrypt traffic that's been encrypted with WPA2. Is this total panic time?

• Android and Apps

  The more I use the HTC Incredible, the more I like it. And the thing that really makes the Incredible, er, incredible is its operating system, Android<.

• Wi-Fi still not universally free, consumers want it to be

  About a year ago, CIO.com examined the Wi-Fi hotspot pricing strategies of retailers Starbucks, McDonald's, Borders and Panera Bread in "Free Wi-Fi: Should Retailers Offer It to Customers?"

• University of Queensland deploys "world's largest" 802.11 wireless network

  The University of Queensland has deploying what it claims is the world’s largest 802.11n wireless network to underpin research, access and collaboration at the university.
  

• WiGig Alliance to push for fast wireless streaming

  A group that includes Intel, Microsoft, Nokia and Panasonic plans to introduce a specification for short-range, gigabit-speed wireless networking by the end of this year.

• Trial Without Error: Office Supplier Puts Together Active RFID

  The company is reducing shrink, boosting sales and eliminating the need to do inventory counts on high-ticket items. And, oh yes, the system has so far not made a single reading mistake.

• RFID Ratchets Up Responsiveness For Fashion Retailer

  In the fashion retail business, speed is what separates the chumps from the Valentino's. How fast an organization can respond to new customer demand is key. And when creatives and seamstresses are all driven to turn around ideas quickly, frittering the time gained makes a mockery of the system.