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Nobody who uses an  iPad  will ever confuse it for a full-feature notebook PC (especially once they've tried to enter data via the device's built-in keyboard). But anyone who computes on the road knows there's more to business travel than keyboarding. These four free iPad apps transform the  tablet  into a clock radio, weather reporter, file manager, and multi-talented notepad. Free file manager simplifies transfers to PCs via Wi-Fi, USB If you store Word, Excel, and other Office documents online, you may not need to keep copies of the files on your iPad. But many iPad users prefer to store PDFs, Word docs, PowerPoint presentations, and Excel spreadsheets on their tablets. The free  FileApp  file manager for iPhones and iPads makes it easy to transfer files to and from a PC via Wi-Fi or USB. (Note that transfers require the free DiskAid program.) FileApp lets you view files listed by type, date, name, or last opened. It lets you e-mail files, ...

Row upon row of tablets at CES 2012. In spite of manufacturers' best efforts, the  tablet  hits of the past year could have been counted on the hand of a careless woodshop teacher. Among those hits are a  $199 tablet  designed as a loss leader, and an orphaned  HP tablet  that was abandoned in the liquidation bin. Needless to say, if there had been a thin selection of tablets at this year's  CES , I would have understood. But that wasn't the case. The show floor of CES 2012 was littered with tablets--perhaps even more than the previous year. Granted, the majority of these tablets were off-brands and OEMs that will never find their way into U.S. hands, but there were big-name announcements as well. Asus's Memo 370T tablet is one of the first tablets to pack Nvidia's Tegra 3 processor. As I see it, the tablets announced at CES came in three flavors: budget; premium; and mutant (not as bad as it sounds). Furthermore, I suspect that these themes wi...

                               Select Motorola Xoom owners are now getting a lick at Ice Cream Sandwich. Ice Cream Sandwich is finally providing some flavor to Motorola Xoom tablets . A Motorola representative confirmed to CNET today that the company has deployed the Ice Cream Sandwich update, aka  Android  4.0, to a small number of Xoom users for testing. The company has promised to confirm additional details when the upgrade is more broadly available, added the rep. Motorola initially seems to have  teased the update , without specifically mentioning ICS, in the following e-mail sent to select Xoom owners yesterday, according to tech blogging site AndroidCentral: Thanks for your patience as we've waited for this project to begin. Because we are dealing with a Google Experience Device (GED) we have less insight to timing than we would usually have. However, I'm happy to announce that we wi...