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Featured Articles » Carl Zeiss Exclusivity Deal Part of Nokia's Focus on Smartphone Camera Quality » Microsoft Invests $300 in Barnes & Noble's Nook » The Latest Buzz: Vibrating Car Seats   Sponsored By: M2M Evolution Conference & Expo - Austin, Texas At M2M Evolution Conference in Austin, Texas, you can meet and mingle with experts in transportation, security, health, cold chain, automotive, and safety to discuss the strategies for M2M growth as well as the new business of proactive response centers - people who use M2M technology to buy time and avoid risk. Technology companies ranging from wireless carriers, platform companies, and device manufacturers will present and discuss their roles in creating effective technologies and procedures that work to create an ecosystem for actionable data and information. At M2M Evolution, you are face-to-face with companies merging M2M Technology with the business needs of the deploying enterprise.   Top Stories » Objet Garners 80 Percent Customer Satisfaction with 3D Printers » Acentic Integrates Advanced Software Application on LG's Smart LED TVs » Panasonic Selects Mocana Mobile Security Technology for its Tablets   From The Expert Corner May 02, 2012 Should Your iPad Double as a Babysitter? By Tracey E. Schelmetic TMCnet Contributor We all use our tablet computers for, reading, browsing, e-mail, Facebook (News - Alert), and instant messaging, but how about keeping your children occupied? While few people would have predicted it when tablets first began appearing on the market, the number of baby and toddler apps for tablets is rising at a mystifying rate, implying that they are extremely popular. Many parents view their iPads as babysitters and tutors all rolled into one.  Child psychologists and parents can't agree whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, according to the Hindustan Times. The two groups are generally divided about whether apps on smartphones and tablets are a help or a hindrance to child development in the first two years. A panel discussion held last year in New York entitled “Baby Brains and Video Games” stressed that parents should set limits on how much time their young children use electronic devices...even if the apps are created specifically for children in their age group... Read More   From The Blogs   May 2, 2012 Avengers Tech and Toys Assembled By: Rich Tehrani, CEO Let's face it, superheroes are pretty cool and aside from Batman and a few others, most of them are low tech. Try for example to post a status update with a hammer. But wait, when you merge low-tech superheroes and the desire for studios to offset the millions of movie investment dollars, you get the opportunity for lots of new movie-branded paraphernalia... Read More    Featured Videos Here's The Thing: 5 Hottest Ingredients for High-Tech Grilling    Featured Resources » Succeeding in the Mobility Game » Live Chat Effectivness 2012 » 5 Questions about Proactive Chat   Featured Channels » Mobile Unified Communications » Mobile Device Management » Mobile Banking   gadgets.tmcnet.com is Your Source for the Latest gadgets News and Information   Sign Up For FREE    |    Visit Site    |    Free Magazine Subscription   Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here      Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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