Quality apps for RIM's new tablet are few and far between right now, but they do exist. CIO.com's Al Sacco recommends 10 great PlayBook apps currently available and worthy of your attention.
By Al Sacco
Just last week, Research In Motion (RIM) (RIM) released its first tablet PC, the BlackBerry PlayBook. Few quality apps are available at this point. However, some cool and valuable software is out there for PlayBook owners, if you know where to look. And lucky for you, I spent the last week perusing RIM's PlayBook app store, BlackBerry App World, to come up with the following list of 10 must-have PlayBook apps for all RIM tablet users.
(Note: You must employ BlackBerry App World with a valid BlackBerry ID to download the apps spotlighted in this post. Find more information on BlackBerry ID on RIM's Website.)
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