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The number of Android apps has surpassed the 50,000 mark, and is increasing daily. With so many options, it’s difficult to know which ones are applicable to your organization and its employees.

Toshiba will sell a modified version of Intel’s Classmate convertible laptop in Japan, the company said Thursday.

Amazon.com is keeping up the pressure on competitors in the electronic book market and will launch on July 7 a new version of its Kindle DX that features a better screen and costs US$110 less than the current model.

Over the last few years, Schneider Electric grew internationally as a collection of businesses, each of which had its own CIO, CFO and other shared services. When corporate leaders decided to shift the organization to a single structure, they started with IT, and David Patzwald was suddenly no longer CIO of Schneider Electric North America–in the new simplified, global structure, he is SVP of Integration Services, Schneider Electric.

Tracking and cracking network performance problems is no easy task. More than a matter of identifying often mystifying bottlenecks, ensuring network efficiency requires an almost preternatural understanding of your organization’s IT operations, as well as a thick skin for withstanding the heat when problems inevitably arise.

The Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) is suing three of the largest U.S. mobile operators, charging they infringed a patent by selling wireless LAN products.

Sometimes it’s lonely in IT. Your organization used to upgrade all the time–well, at least at regular intervals–but now it’s a rare occurrence. Technology has moved on, but you’re stuck in the 2000s, running Windows XP and maybe even Microsoft Office 2003. Redmond feels your pain, and it’s taking a road trip to ignite change, upgrade the nation’s Windows desktops and servers, and maybe sell some software in the process.

Sorry, Flash, but it looks like yet another Website is petitioning to join Apple’s “iPad Ready” clique. On Tuesday, MacStories discovered that Facebook is converting its newest videos into HTML5 for easy iPad/iPhone viewing.

As if McAfee’s bad antivirus update last week wasn’t bad enough, some customers were none too happy with how the security vendor’s tech support handled the situation either.

A watchdog group that claimed a role in Apple’s recent iPhone App Store porn purge claims there’s still too much smut going around.