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• New iPad rumor rollup for week ending April 23

  iPad rumors have been rare for months, but April showers seemed to have caused them to burst into bloom.

• Gartner: Microsoft sells more tablets in 2013, still lags far behind Android, iOS

  Microsoft sold more than double the tablets last year than it did the year before but still wound up with just 2.1% of total sales, according to Gartner.

• Surface adoption by enterprise low as Microsoft unveils new tablets

  Microsoft still faces a long road convincing enterprises to choose its Surface tablets over the Apple iPad, according to analysts.

• iPad 5 rumour rollup for the week ending August 14

  The iOSphere is still conflicted over the iPad 5 and iPad mini dates, whether it's the start date for mass manufacturing, for the product announcement, or the availability. Eventually, someone is bound to be right.

• iPad 5 rumour rollup for the week ending July 3

  We believe Apple will introduce the iPad 5 at a separate event in October, just like last year, and push the release date of the iPad 5, as well as the sequel to last year's iPad Mini, to late October 2013.

• iPad 5 rumour rollup for the week ending March 13

  The iOSphere rumor machine for the iPad 5 is running on vapors, given that some were predicting as of last week that the Next iPad will be released "April-ish".

• Case study: Parade College overhauls network for iPad program

  Bringing tablets to the classroom has enhanced education but created networking challenges for Parade College, according to the school’s IT manager, Daniel Caporetto.

• Apple iPad mini: All the Aussie details

  Apple has finally lifted the lid on the iPad mini? Should you buy it and when will it be available in Australia?

• iPad Mini vs. Nexus 7: A head-to-head tablet comparison

  Apple made a point of doing a side-by-side comparison of its new iPad Mini with Google's Nexus 7 at the launch event Tuesday in San Jose, highlighting the mini tablet's thinness, larger viewable screen area and custom app compatibility.

• Google's Android tablet: How might it be different?

  Google appears to be building its very own Android tablet, one designed to compete at the high end of slate spectrum.

• When the iPad 3 arrives, what will happen to the iPad 2?

  If recent rumors about Apple's imminent tablet plans are true, the third-generation iPad will arrive sometime between February and April 2012.

• Padlock salesman trades 30-pound sample case for 1.35-pound iPad

  For William Tway, the really important number for the Apple <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/111910-apple-ipad-resources.html">iPad</a> is 1.35. That's how much the 3G model weighs. And it weighs about 28.67 pounds less than the sample case of padlocks, not to mention the thick paper catalogs, he used to lug around as head of East Coast sales for the Wilson Bohannan Padlock Company.

• Kindle Fire gets knocked on usability

  Amazon's Kindle Fire "offers a disappointingly poor user experience," according to an expert on usability.

• iPad rivals sold 1.2m tablets in US in last 10 months

  During the first 10 months of this year, 1.2 million tablet computers were sold in the US and none of them were iPads.

• Kindle Fire creates dilemma for Android

  The Amazon Kindle Fire is living up to its name by setting the tablet market on fire. Pre-orders of the as yet unreleased tablet have been phenomenal. The success of the Kindle Fire, however, puts Android tablets in general between a rock and a hard place.