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With its new iPad app for company boards, NASDAQ is hoping to capitalize on the popularity of the device among its executive clients.

A new iPad app being released on Monday for NASDAQ’s “Directors Desk” online service aims to help board members keep on top of their duties both in the board room and on the go using the popular device. The app will be free to download, but requires a subscription to the Director’s Desk service in order to work.

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The service helps board members of subscribing companies keep track of meetings, securely access important documents and communicate with corporate staff, among other things. They ca

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Lenovo is now offering Virtual Computer NxTop. With NxTop 4.0, IT departments can use a desktop virtualization solution that offers both centralized and distributed storage options for virtual machines. NxTop 4.0 is optimized on select Lenovo Think-branded PCs to deliver unique capabilities, native PC performance, seamless user experience, and zero-touch PC deployment through a Lenovo custom factory install. New features of NxTop 4 include hot-desking on stateless end-points, VMware vSphere/ESXi and Citrix Xen support, server VMs on PC infrastructure, large scale enterprise installer, and over 50 additional enhancements.

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It’s been a year since Smallville finished its tenure, and some have been wondering why nothing has stepped up to fill the gap.

Well, now we have confirmation that the CW is adapting a different DC property: Deadman.

Perhaps you’ve been expecting it, but I’ve been waiting for an announcement about a Smallville spin-off with one of the other superhero characters introduced during the run of the series – like Flash, Green Arrow, or Aquaman. They would have been easily able to retain the audience base from Smallville, but still have the opportunity to tell new and different stories. Perha

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Well, we knew it was coming, and folks, it’s finally here — the promised update to Quickoffice HD that finally brings document editing to HP’s slate. Available gratis for TouchPad owners, the overhaul enables text formatting in Word docs, in addition to enabling cell and function editing in Excel spreadsheets. Unfortunately, editing of Powerpoint presentations is sorely lacking, but that’s nothing another update can’t cure, right?