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Blackberry Playbook

RIM’s management is taking some heat in the press as well as its poor Playbook performance as BlackBerry announces that it will soon launch seven new smartphones. Co-chief executive Jim Balsillie announced this week that the company will offer seven new mobiles over the next few months all with the new operating system but told shareholders that admittedly RIM has some challenges to face as it attempts to hit its sales target for the remainder of the year. He added that there have been some delays with the new OS, but that the mobiles will help the company reach its financial goals by the close of 2011.

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HP TouchPad

When it comes to the HP TouchPad the strongest features of the tablet are simply the fact that it tailors to the business professional perfectly. The tablet makes it clear that with its many business apps, great on board keyboard, and ability to multi-task that it can offer users something that the tablet market has not yet had to offer its users: productivity and efficiency in the face of cool features. In fact, with its quick software and strong punch you may be surprised that you are able to get as much done as you can on the Touch Pad without turning to a PC for aid.

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Steve Jobs with the iPad

Andy Lark, the head of enterprise marketing for Dell stated this week that while the company is happy that Apple introduced the public to the tablet computer, they are pretty confident that Apple will fail at maintaining the market monopoly for very long due to the fact that the iPad2 will not attract any enterprise customers.

Some of the reasons that Lark gave for the so-called impending doom of the iPad2 is the fact that it is too expensive along with the fact that it does not meet the needs of most business users.  However, he added that the company is still overjoyed with the fact that Apple opened up the tablet market for other computer companies but in the long run expects that affordability will edge Apple out of the market.

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