To maximize the value of tablets, organizations need to make key business applications widely available to the workforce.

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This growth in number can be attributed to malware authors crafting their infected or trojanized applications to defeat anti-virus signature detection, distributing their malware in different application names, and trojanizing widely popular applications.

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So far, the most widely-discussed applications have been unsavory ones.

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Susan Grabau, Sun's StarOffice product line manager, said that these high-profile partnerships should extend the company's reach so it can better compete with bitter rival Microsoft, whose Office product is the most widely used desktop applications suite.

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As well as tackling the widely-acknowledged problem of university applications coming before exam results, the report wants to create a school year with a greater continuity of learning.

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Aura has developed a technology it calls Libertylink that operates in the much less crowded 13.5 Ghz range, which is more widely used for industrial and medical applications.

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Widely known for its oncology franchise, Celgene is expanding its medical applications to include inflammation, immune disorders and proprietary stem cell products derived from human placental cells.

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"In the two years since Fermi was launched, hybrid computing has become a widely adopted way to achieve higher performance for a number of critical HPC applications, " said Earl C.

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