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	Apple probes iPhone 5-related death in China Apple promised to investigate a report that a young Chinese woman was electrocuted when she answered her iPhone 5 while it was plugged into its charger. Read More WHITE PAPER: EasyVista ITIL Simplified – Avoiding Common ITIL Adoption Mistakes The question of what processes to implement, how to measure ROI and how to avoid common pitfalls often go unanswered. This paper goes beyond defining ITIL, it digs deeper into the most common questions that arise and provides advice on how to avoid the most common mistakes made when following the framework. Learn More In this Issue The future of Linux: Evolving, everywhere Preston Gralla: Will Chromebooks be the dagger in Windows 8's heart? Apple, Microsoft to leap on app auto-update bandwagon Chrome 28 on iOS bolsters browser's ties to Google app ecosystem Jonny Evans: Apple's Logic Remote shows the logic of Post-PC Apple may buy Israeli firm that delivered Kinect 3-D tech to Redmond rival New digitally signed Mac malware confuses users with right-to-left file name tricks Apple-Samsung phone battle to hit appeals court in August Alternative fixes released for Android 'master key' vulnerability WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation EMC Next Generation Backup and Recovery Read this IDC analysis of ten midsize companies that have deployed EMC backup and recovery solutions to learn key IDC findings including: - Average payback period of 7 months ROI of 450% over 3 years - Reduced restore times from 17 to 2 hours - Reduced backup windows from 11 to 3 hours Learn more. The future of Linux: Evolving, everywhere Mark Shuttleworth's recent closure of Ubuntu Linux bug No. 1 ('Microsoft has a majority market share') placed a meaningful, if somewhat controversial, exclamation point on how far Linux has come since Linus Torvalds rolled out the first version of the OS in 1991 as a pet project. Read More Preston Gralla: Will Chromebooks be the dagger in Windows 8's heart? Sales of Windows-based PCs may be plunging, but shipments of Chromebooks in the second half of the year are expected to rocket by as much as 200% to 300%, according to a just-released export. Acer, Lenovo, HP and Samsung will all be cashing in by launching new Chromebooks. How badly will Windows 8 be hurt? Read More Apple, Microsoft to leap on app auto-update bandwagon By this fall, Apple and Microsoft will have followed in the footsteps of Google to automatically update apps on their mobile and desktop platforms, another move to take security out of users' hands. Read More Chrome 28 on iOS bolsters browser's ties to Google app ecosystem Google has updated Chrome for iOS, which now opens some links in other Google apps, yet more evidence of the search giant's push to subvert rivals' ecosystems by keeping users corralled within its own. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation EMC Next Generation Backup and Recovery Read this IDC analysis of ten midsize companies that have deployed EMC backup and recovery solutions to learn key IDC findings including: - Average payback period of 7 months ROI of 450% over 3 years - Reduced restore times from 17 to 2 hours - Reduced backup windows from 11 to 3 hours Learn more. Jonny Evans: Apple's Logic Remote shows the logic of Post-PC Apple yesterday introduced Logic Pro X and in doing so took another big step toward a post-PC future, releasing an iPad app that acts as a user interface for many of the application's actions. Read More Apple may buy Israeli firm that delivered Kinect 3-D tech to Redmond rival Apple may acquire the Israeli chip design company that provided the motion sensing technology used in Microsoft's popular Kinect video game controller, the Israeli business daily Calcalist reported today. Read More New digitally signed Mac malware confuses users with right-to-left file name tricks A new piece of digitally signed spyware for Mac OS X uses a special Unicode character in its file name to hide its real file extension from users and trick them into installing it. Read More Apple-Samsung phone battle to hit appeals court in August A court's decision not to prevent multiple Samsung handsets from being sold in the U.S. despite their being found to infringe Apple patents will go before an appeal's court in early August. Read More Alternative fixes released for Android 'master key' vulnerability More fixes are appearing for a pair of highly dangerous vulnerabilities exposed earlier this month in the Android mobile operating system. Read More
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