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Social publishing site Scribd is making a big bet on HTML5 and scrapping its three-year-old Adobe Flash investment. The site, which features content from such publishers as Simon & Schuster and the Chicago Tribune, will have more than 200,000 pages of  HTML5-based content live Thursday at 1 p.m. PT, the company said. Plans call for [...]

As if to prove the Apple iPad’s crossover appeal to PC users, spammers have launched a malware campaign to reel them in using the promise of extras for the new device. According to BitDefender, the spam campaign invites its would-be victims to download an updated version of iTunes with the promise of a preliminary update [...]

Toshiba, the world’s fifth-largest personal computer maker says it will launch slate devices later in 2010, including models that run either the Microsoft Windows 7 or Google Android operating systems. Jeff Barney, general manager of digital products for Toshiba America, tells Reuters that his company is exploring several tablet form factors, including a dual-screen tablet [...]

Developers will gather this weekend in Silicon Valley to conduct what an organizer is calling the world’s first-ever Apple iPad-specific developer event. To be held at eBay’s PayPal facility in San Jose, Calif., beginning Friday evening, the event is billed as iPadDevCamp and is being run by the same people that conduct iPhoneDevCamp gatherings. The [...]

Developers will gather this weekend in Silicon Valley to conduct what an organizer is calling the world’s first-ever Apple iPad-specific developer event. To be held at eBay’s PayPal facility in San Jose, Calif., beginning Friday evening, the event is billed as iPadDevCamp and is being run by the same people that conduct iPhoneDevCamp gatherings. The [...]

Hewlett-Packard has expanded its consulting services to help enterprises get a better handle on the range of new client devices and software that have recently been introduced to the market, the company announced Wednesday. “User experience is starting to change pretty dramatically now. The whole range of client devices is changing,” said Alan Wilson, who [...]

Add Google to the list of companies trying to develop a rival for the Apple iPad. Google CEO Eric Schmidt let slip the company’s plans for a slate/ e-reader at a party of friends, according to a report by the New York Times. [ InfoWorld's Paul Venezia details his week with an iPad. | And [...]

The rapid spread of tablet devices like the Apple iPad and HP Slate could prove to be a boon to providers of online storage services as users seek ubiquitous data access and synchronization across multiple mobile platforms for devices that don’t have much internal storage capacity. The flexibility that comes with cloud storage “is not [...]

Whether the iPad is secure enough for enterprise uses is debatable, based on a survey of several analysts and experts. Some analysts say that with tougher data protection laws, such as one that recently took effect in Massachusetts, the iPad deserves an “F” for security readiness for financial services companies and other federally regulated industries. [...]

Following the release of a new video displaying the features and capabilities of the upcoming HP Slate tablet PC, the specs of the device have apparently been leaked. The leaked document — acquired by Engadget — shows a head-to-head comparison of the HP Slate and the Apple iPad, but what is not on the Slate [...]