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	Apple's iMac, MacBook Pro lines are SSD friendly Apple's latest iMac and MacBook Pro line-ups are optimized to squeeze more performance from solid-state drives. Read More WHITE PAPER: SAP 6 Mistakes Companies are Making – and How to Avoid Them When the economy slows, many businesses react by retrenching and cutting costs in order to weather the downturn. While such cost reduction is important, companies often overlook equally critical strategic decisions – opportunities to use valuable business information to strengthen product and service offerings and emerge ahead of the competition. Read More! In this Issue Apple's OS X server strategy: Data centers for everyone iPhone location-tracking incident boosts stock of 'privacy by design' Apple releases iOS 4.3.3 to patch location bugs Skype patches 'wormable' Mac bug Apple to snare 76% of year's mobile app revenues Pharma companies go on an iPad buying spree Jonny Evans: Apple dumps Intel for MacBooks: does it matter? Apple defection would be slap in the face to Intel White iPhone sparks skirmish at Beijing Apple Store Apple tops Google as most valuable brand, report says Jonny Evans: Forget Apple v. Google, now it's Apple v. Samsung OWC offers 480GB SSD for 2010 MacBook Air Analysts split on iPhone over-the-air-update buzz iPhone gains on Nokia smartphones for global crown New tools to help iPhone, Android developers build on Azure Drawing on the iPad: 12 touchscreen styluses Jonny Evans: Apple kills the optical drive, and other stories Jonny Evans: Apple's other growing platform, the Mac RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Microsoft Is Microsoft Desktop Virtualization for you? Desktop Virtualization provides a comprehensive suite of solutions that enables companies to give their employees flexibility to work everywhere; simplifying compliance and management through a centralized and unified infrastructure. Learn how IT is empowering users with Desktop Virtualization with this on-demand roundtable. Click to continue Apple's OS X server strategy: Data centers for everyone In addition to a variety of new features, Mac OS X 10.7 'Lion' is getting something all new: Lion Server, which will be bundled with it for free. Read More iPhone location-tracking incident boosts stock of 'privacy by design' With a Senate hearing scheduled for tomorrow, the concept of privacy by design could get more attention. Read More Apple releases iOS 4.3.3 to patch location bugs Apple said it would take a while to issue an iOS update to fix a handful of bugs related to the storage of location data, but its taken just seven days between that announcement and the appearance of iOS 4.3.3. Read More Skype patches 'wormable' Mac bug As it promised last week, Skype today began serving up an update to Mac users of its chat and Internet phone software, fixing a dangerous bug that a researcher said could be used to build a worm. Read More Apple to snare 76% of year's mobile app revenues Apple will reap more than three-fourths of all mobile app store revenues generated this year, but rival Google's growth is climbing faster, a research analyst said yesterday. Read More Pharma companies go on an iPad buying spree Pharmaceutical companies are buying large quantities of iPad tablets for 'a quicker, lighter and more attractive way of displaying drug-related information' during sales calls, an IDC analyst says. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple dumps Intel for MacBooks: does it matter? Flimsy reports claim Apple may ditch Intel in favor of adopting ARM-based processors across its product range. But does it matter? After all, MacBook Air shows us future mobile Macs will be high-performance machines equipped with SSDs and lengthy battery lives. Intel processors will live on in pro-notebooks and Apple's increasingly archaic desktop Macs. Read More Apple defection would be slap in the face to Intel Online speculation is starting to pick up speed that Apple is looking to ditch Intel chips and move to ARM-based processors for its Mac line of laptops. Read More White iPhone sparks skirmish at Beijing Apple Store The long wait for Apple products in Beijing turned ugly over the weekend when a skirmish erupted outside one of the company's stores. Read More DOWNLOAD: Hitachi Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer Pinpoint root cause of network issues up to 90% faster. Automated Root Cause Analysis speeds remediation. FREE video and 30-day trial. Download free 30-day trial Apple tops Google as most valuable brand, report says Apple has topped Google as the most valuable brand in the world, according to a study released over the weekend by brand consultancy Millward Brown. Read More Jonny Evans: Forget Apple v. Google, now it's Apple v. Samsung What is it with Apple and its friends? It seems everyone touched by Cupertino's magic seems to find a little magic of their own; we've seen what happened when things went sour between Apple and Google, but now the Jobs-led company has a new challenger -- Samsung. Read More OWC offers 480GB SSD for 2010 MacBook Air Other World Computing (OWC) has announced the Mercury Aura Pro Express 480GB, which the company says is the largest high performance solid state drive available for the 2010 MacBook Air. Read More Analysts split on iPhone over-the-air-update buzz Apple won't let iPhone users update the smartphone's iOS over the air because it wants people regularly returning to iTunes, an analyst said today. Read More iPhone gains on Nokia smartphones for global crown Apple's iPhone is inching closer to Nokia's top spot in smartphones globally, according to first-quarter 2011 results reported by IDC on Thursday. Read More New tools to help iPhone, Android developers build on Azure Microsoft released tools aimed at making it easier for developers to build iPhone, Android and Windows Phone 7 apps that use Windows Azure. Read More Drawing on the iPad: 12 touchscreen styluses Steve Jobs may hate the idea of using a stylus on his touchscreen devices, but the fact remains that some consumers simply prefer an intermediary accessory for interaction. Whether it's too cold outside for direct contact, you're worried about touchscreen germs, or you need a sketching tool, sometimes a stylus can be a good thing. Accessory manufacturers seem to agree, having produced a plethora of styluses for Apple's iOS devices. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple kills the optical drive, and other stories Apple [AAPL] seems set to kill the optical drive when it releases Mac OS X 'Lion' as a downloadable upgrade via the Mac App Store. While this begs questions -- principally how a Mac user can launch a faulty Mac from disk, without a disk -- this isn't the first time Apple's changed an industry. Here's a short -- and necessarily incomplete -- list: Read More Jonny Evans: Apple's other growing platform, the Mac The iPad has taken over the tablet business and the iPhone is among the top three biggest-selling smartphones worldwide, despite Google's Android competition, but Apple has another platform that's growing faster than any other and is at last seizing an unexpected place in enterprise markets, the Mac. Read More
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