Top tech industry news stories of 2011 -- so far

08.07.2011

The Apple iPad assault ramped up at the in Las Vegas in January as Acer, Dell, Lenovo, LG, Motorola, NEC and others introduced Windows or Android . RIM showed off its tablet, Google previewed its tablet-optimized and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talked up his , including ARM support for Windows.

in Network World's Software section.