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31 apps that make news reading better

There is an ocean of apps to 'improve' your tablet reading experience. We've collected some of the best for aggregating, saving, sharing, personalizing and comfortably reading news from all over the web. Get what you want out of the day's best stories.

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Police, along with insurers, the military and thousands of government agencies, remain important customers for the struggling BlackBerry maker as a data breach could invite litigation, compromise reputations or even endanger national security.

Security niche remains RIM’s fragile lifeline, but for how long?

Police, insurer embrace PlayBook for sensitive data, but new players are chipping away at even that slice of the enterprise market

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Handset sales in China, the largest single cellphone market, dropped more than 6 per cent from a year ago as consumers waited for new, more advanced models coming to the market this quarter or next, Gartner said.

Mobile sales slump as Chinese buyers wait on new models: report

Global market shrinks 2 per cent after 10 straight quarters of handset sales growth

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Apple’s decision to equip the next iPhone with a larger screen represents part of its competitive response to Samsung Electronics. Samsung unveiled its top-of-the line Galaxy smartphone with a 4.8-inch touch screen and a faster processor earlier this month.

Next iPhone will boast larger 4-inch screen: sources

Apple adds extra half-inch to iPhone form factor, unchanged since 2007 launch

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An Instagram photo is shared with Facebook on an iPhone Monday, April 9, 2012, in New York. Unlike on desktop where Facebook has become a parallel Internet platform, on iOS or Android Facebook is just another app developer, and creating a financial ecosystem among third-party apps shared by the smartphone super-platforms and the Facebook ecosystem will be tricky.

Facebook's mobile problem: It's not a smartphone 'super-platform'

On iOS or Android Facebook is just another app developer, creating a financial ecosystem among third-party apps shared across mobile and desktop will be tricky

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Rob Maurin, vice-president of content, community and communications for Wave Accounting
PART THREE: BYOD

When employees’ personal devices are the rule at work

Smaller companies are becoming adept at not only accommodating employees bringing their own devices to work, but creating an environment around it

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Surveys suggest teens think reading a text while driving is somehow less dangerous than typing one

All U.S. teens know dangers of text and drive, but do it anyway: survey

Surveys suggest teens think reading a text is somehow less dangerous than typing one

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Visitors inspect Blackberry mobile phones at their booth at the CeBit computer fair in Hanover, in this March, 6, 2012, file photo.

Wireless firms fret over mobile data ‘tsunami’

Twin issues of data overload and spectrum crunch top of mind at CTIA industry conference

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A BlackBerry handset. RIM is charting a new course to refocus on its core strengths in business and enterprise, its CEO says.

Do BlackBerry typers dream of trapezoid keys?

RIM granted patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for an ‘angular keyboard’

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Blackberry Torch, seen at a Research In Motion event in August, 2011.

BlackBerry 7 smartphones are Army Strong, pass U.S. Defense dept. tests

RIM’s Torch and Curve models have passed U.S. Army and Defence Information Systems Agency security tests

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