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Google officially unveiled Honeycomb - version 3.0 of its Android operating system - earlier today, and there are already tablet-optimized business apps lined up for the brand new OS.

Of course, apps designed for previous versions of Android should work just fine in Honeycomb, so current users won't lose their favorite productivity tools. Here are a few tablet-specific apps just announced today.

Busy Android users have a new way to manage their to-do lists thanks to the arrival of Todo.txt Touch in the Android Marketplace yesterday.

The open source task management app is the latest phase of the Todo.txt project, which started with a command line interface for managing to-dos in what is quite possibly the geekiest possible manner.

Keeping up with every RSS feed item and tweet is hard enough for anybody, let alone someone trying to run a business. That's why at the end of every week, ReadWriteBiz rounds up the week's most important tech news and insights for small and medium-sized businesses.

There was a slew of announcements from Google this week pertaining to SMBs, starting with Monday's unveiling of Hotpot, a recommendation engine for Google Places. In what many see as Google's answer to Yelp, Hotpot recommends nearby places to users based on how they and their friends have rated local businesses in the past.

A few weeks back, we rounded up four ways to attend meetings on an iPad and more recently our own Klint Finley wrote about how iPads are being used in the enterprise. Without a doubt, Apple's wildly popular tablet device is finding its own niches to fill within businesses both big and small, a topic we'll be covering in more depth in the future here on ReadWriteBiz.

While they seem to have a monopoly on buzz, Apple is far from the only player in the tablet space. If the pace at which Android has managed to mount a real challenge to iPhone and RIM in the smart phone market is any indication, the Android-based tablets just now arriving on the market may well start chipping away at the iPad's 95% tablet market share before long.