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Carrying your iPad, hands-free, usually just means throwing it in your bag. But with the shoulder-strapped Trubador iPad case , you can skip the bag and still use your iPad on the go. More??

Google raised a few eyebrows when it purchased a Finnish paper mill back in 2009 — what, the world, wondered, would the king of cloud services want with reams of tree guts? Space for a data center, of course — and a seawater-cooled one at that. Google’s Joe Kava told GigaOm that, when it launches in the fall, the center’s temperature will be regulated by a quarter-mile of seawater tunnels inherited from the building’s past tenants. One of the hardest parts of getting the system up and running has apparently been figuring out a way to clean corrosion from salt water without taking the system offline.

After less than three years of existence, Apple’s App Store has accumulated half-a-million mobile apps. The iTunes App Store, which launched in the summer of 2008, surpassed the 500,000 milestone Tuesday morning, according to 148Apps, an iPhone app reviews blog that has been tracking the store closely. To be clear, that’s 500,000 apps that Apple has approved — they’re not necessarily live yet

Intel's Atom series of processors debuted in May of last year. We may see the latest generation — code-named “Oak Trail” — in tablets this summer. Photo courtesy Intel Long absent from the mobile-device arena, Intel processors may arrive in tablets as soon as this summer. Acer will launch a tablet powered by Intel’s “Oak Trail” processor, which could start selling as early as July, according to sources cited by DigiTimes .