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The latest rumors about an Apple tablet is that it will have either an 8" or 10" screen and sell for around $400, just in time for the holiday season this year.  We believe that Apple coming out with a tablet-netbook device will create a new product category much as they have successfully done with the  iPod and iPhone.  A

Netbooks have clearly been embraced by millions of people as a cost-effective means to use the Internet while on the go.  The research conducted by Display Research shows that world wide, the laptop/notebook market demand is stronger than in any other segment.

Rumors have been circulating for over a year about Apple coming out with a touchscreen tablet that might run the full Mac X OS or a version of the iPhone OS as Apple's answer to the netbooks. China Times now says that the tablet is due out in October and that it’ll cost about $800.

Google announced that they will be providing Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.  Google is already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community.

As we all are enjoying our long weekend celebrating  the birth of our country it is another reminder why I chose to get into this business.  It's great that our team is able to have flexibility to travel and work, whenever and wherever, because our business is virtual.  We decided from the start that we would practice what we preach to our clients.

Google recently added to its set of already impressive product support a key new ability to support Microsoft's Outlook Client.  Many users and software applications are dependent on Outlook, both in terms of its popularity and its ease of integrating third party software into it.

We believe that the inclusion of MS Outlook client into the Google Apps offering reduces one of the last major barriers for existing MS Exchange Users to migrate to Google's software as a service (SaaS) product.