By Patrick Houston Later this year, Sony plans to take on iPad with two radically different tablet designs. The S2 folds like a book. Have the CE giant’s engineers gone too far, or leapt ahead to the next big thing? You tell us.

The Original Post is Located Here: Can Sony sell a tablet you’d really want to buy? [poll]

Apple's ship creaks under waves of patent litigation, while hackers keep up their bold campaign against the U.S. government.

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By Joe Wilcox, Betanews Flurry claims “Android has lost developer support to iOS”. Joe Wilcox doesn’t buy it based on broader market perspective and ways developers juggle priorities. Please clear up this dispute by answering the headline’s question and taking our two polls?

The Original Post is Located Here: Which matters more to you, Android or iOS? [poll]

By Tim Conneally, Betanews Friday, Apple released an update to its mobile operating system (iOS 4.3.4) which patches a couple of vulnerabilities that left a door open for malware infections on the iPad, 3rd and 4th generation iPod touch, iPhone 4, and iPhone 3GS.

The Original Post is Located Here: Apple patches, does not acknowledge, iOS malware vulnerabilities

By Larry Seltzer, Betanews In most countries it’s cheap and easy to register a domain name. Not in China where the government makes you run things past them. A side-effect was to kill off spamming from Chinese domains.

The Original Post is Located Here: How China stopped spam and malware distribution on its domains

Google posted a 36 percent surge in revenue in the past quarter, suggesting its efforts to become much more than just a search engine are paying off.

The Mountain View, Calif.-based company's search advertising business, along with new efforts such as display and mobile advertising, boosted revenues by over a third. Its stock shares went up by 12 percent this past quarter as well.

Google's success comes from its expansion into numerous businesses.

"The combination of mobile...