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	Update: Complaints mount over Google+ account deletions An issue that had simmered for several weeks boiled over this weekend, as Google apparently accelerated deletions of Google+ accounts over the site's requirement that members use their real names. Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation NEW Diskeeper 2011 Pro Premier Edition Diskeeper 2011 Pro Premier edition provides essential performance and efficiency increases for power workstation users as well as all the features of the Professional edition. Learn more! In this Issue Barbara Krasnoff: Naming names: Google wrestles with anonymity RIM COO retires as company lays off one-tenth of staff Amazon caves to Apple, drops Kindle's in-app button From CIO.com: 7 Solid Reasons to Keep the Faith in RIM, BlackBerry The Agile Business: Is nearshoring the new IT outsourcing? Chinese officials shutter some fake Apple stores Facebook blocks access to hidden iPad app Qualcomm aims for gesture recognition in mobile devices Intel acknowledges SSD 320 bug, plans firmware upgrade Oracle gives sneak peek at MySQL 5.6 features Jonny Evans: iPhone 5 lessons from the iPod nano Apple boom Preston Gralla: Should Microsoft unload Bing? Heck, no! RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SAP The Real-time Value of BI Today's top performing organizations have developed a strategy to manage growth in data volume & complexity while exploiting that data to create quicker business insight. Learn how best-in-class companies are delivering broader access to information in a shorter timeframe to facilitate substantial improvement in key business performance metrics. Click to continue Barbara Krasnoff: Naming names: Google wrestles with anonymity Google is insisting that users go by their real names. A lot of users are not happy. Read More RIM COO retires as company lays off one-tenth of staff Research in Motion will lay off 2,000 staff, or a little more than 10% of its workforce. Read More Amazon caves to Apple, drops Kindle's in-app button Amazon today bowed to Apple's newest App Store rules, and removed a link in its iPhone and iPad Kindle apps that took customers directly to its online store. Read More From CIO.com: 7 Solid Reasons to Keep the Faith in RIM, BlackBerry Times are tough for BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM), but CIO.com's Al Sacco thinks many critics are underestimating the Canadian company. Here are seven reasons why it's still too early to count RIM out. Read More The Agile Business: Is nearshoring the new IT outsourcing? Off-shoring IT may not be all it's cracked up to be. CIOs are considering alternatives that keep IT closer to home. INSIDER (registration required) Read More Chinese officials shutter some fake Apple stores Chinese authorities have closed two unauthorized Apple stores in Kunming following an investigation prompted by a blogger who posted photos last week of one outlet. Read More WHITE PAPER: Delphix Private Clouds for Oracle Databases The priorities of IT executives rarely change: maintain flexibility to support evolving business requirements while operating within tight budgets. What does change is the means by which organizations address these priorities. Read how to reduce operating expenses, cut capital costs, and enable IT agility. Read now! Facebook blocks access to hidden iPad app Researchers over the weekend uncovered a Facebook app for Apple's iPad, and showed how 'jailbroken' tablets could run the still-unreleased software. Read More Qualcomm aims for gesture recognition in mobile devices Qualcomm said it wants to make smartphones and tablets more interactive through the acquisition of gesture-recognition assets from GestureTek, which holds patents related to motion-based human-computer interaction. Read More Intel acknowledges SSD 320 bug, plans firmware upgrade Intel on Sunday acknowledged that a bug could cause its SSD 320 solid-state drives to fail, and said a firmware upgrade is on its way to address the problem. Read More Oracle gives sneak peek at MySQL 5.6 features Oracle on Monday announced a sneak peak at features slated for MySQL 5.6, the next version of its open-source database, that focus on improved scalability, integration and performance. Read More Jonny Evans: iPhone 5 lessons from the iPod nano Apple boom Apple now sells as many Macs in a quarter as it once sold in a year, is the world's biggest smartphone maker and dominates the tablet industry in the absence of anything like credible competition. The iPod nano was arguably an early catalyst for part of this growth... Read More Preston Gralla: Should Microsoft unload Bing? Heck, no! A pair of bloggers in the New York Times today recommend that Microsoft sell Bing as a way to pare the company's online losses and fatten the bottom line for investors. Selling Bing may save money in the short term, but in the long term it would ensure Microsoft's eventual irrelevency in the Internet and mobile future. Read More
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