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	Hands on: Mac OS X, iOS morph into Lion Apple has finally unleashed OS X 10.7 'Lion,' the revamped operating system for the company's desktops and laptops. Columnist Michael deAgonia offers a hands-on look at Lion's new features and offers advice on whether you should upgrade. Read More WEBCAST: Cymphonix Strategies Behind Managing Internet Traffic At a time when the number of Internet-connected applications is exploding, now more than ever IT needs maximum visibility into each and everyone of these connections. Read More! In this Issue Visual tour: Apple's Lion OS Apple delivers OS X Lion to Mac App Store Jonny Evans: 24 hours with Lion, 'it just works' (mostly) Apple touts 1M Lion downloads on Day 1 Apple expands free Lion upgrade offer Adobe recants knock on Apple's OS X Lion Apple wows with record iPhone and iPad sales, largest revenues Jonny Evans: Reading between the lines of Apple's Q3 results Apple refreshes MacBook Air, dumps MacBook Apple approves Google+ app for iPhone Amazon caves to Apple, drops Kindle's in-app button Facebook blocks access to hidden iPad app Apple patches 58 Safari bugs to deflect drive-by attacks French security firm bashes Microsoft for talking up Mac malware Microsoft spells out Office for Mac bugs in Lion RIM layoffs don't address Apple, Google competition, analysts say Chinese officials shutter some fake Apple stores Jonny Evans: Apple iOS 5 beta hints Nuance voice recog for iPhone 5 Jonny Evans: Lion users suffer Adobe Apple Flash support war Jonny Evans: Apple beats Nokia as smartphone sales grow Jonny Evans: Rumor: Apple iPhone 5 ships US September 5 WEBCAST: SAP How to Create a Modern BI Strategy for Mid-Size Businesses As technology changes, so does BI. Keeping up with these changes to get the most out of your BI strategy can be challenging, but not if you have the right tools and services in place. With technology advances such as social networking and mobility, how do BI and analytics fit in? View now Visual tour: Apple's Lion OS Curious about what iOS features Apple has wrapped into its new desktop OS? Get up close with our visual tour. Read More Apple delivers OS X Lion to Mac App Store Apple today officially launched OS X Lion, the first major upgrade to its operating system software in two years. Read More Jonny Evans: 24 hours with Lion, 'it just works' (mostly) There's already over a million Apple Lion OS users worldwide, and the feedback on the new operating system is coming in fast and furious: "It just works". Well, to qualify that claim, it mostly just works and a lot of users are having problems getting their finger memories around reverse scrolling. Read More Apple touts 1M Lion downloads on Day 1 Apple said today that customers had downloaded more than one million copies of Mac OS X Lion from the Mac App Store in the upgrade's first day of availability. Read More Apple expands free Lion upgrade offer Apple on Wednesday offered details about its free Lion upgrade offer, saying the deal also applies to Macs bought from authorized resellers after the new operating system's debut. Read More Adobe recants knock on Apple's OS X Lion Adobe has backpedalled from a claim that its popular Flash Player did not work with OS X Lion's hardware acceleration, saying that a testing mistake led it to the wrong conclusion. Read More Apple wows with record iPhone and iPad sales, largest revenues Apple has reported a record number of iPhones and iPad sales in the second quarter of 2011, powering revenues of $28.6 billion, also a record. Read More Jonny Evans: Reading between the lines of Apple's Q3 results While the Apple planet clicks refresh on the currently closed online Apple retail store and/or idly checks the App Store in hope of all-new Lion OS appearing available for download, some thoughts on Apple's record-breaking financial results last night. Read More Apple refreshes MacBook Air, dumps MacBook Apple refreshed its MacBook Air line, equipping the notebooks with faster processors based on Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture and adding support for Thunderbolt that transfers data at speeds up to 10Gbps. Read More Apple approves Google+ app for iPhone Apple today approved the Google+ app for the iPhone, and posted it to the App Store. Read More WHITE PAPER: Mimecast Keep your Blackberry Workforce Agile With the rising numbers of mobile workers, today's businesses can't afford an email outage. Given the nature of the risks involved, as well as the way that wireless email is evolving, firms today need to consider the additional benefits gained by using third-party BlackBerry availability services. Read now 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 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 Apple patches 58 Safari bugs to deflect drive-by attacks Apple today updated Safari to version 5.1, patching 58 security vulnerabilities and adding several new features, including sandboxing on Mac OS X 10.7. Read More French security firm bashes Microsoft for talking up Mac malware A Mac security firm today criticized Microsoft for warning Mac users of new malware, saying that the threat simply wasn't worth mentioning. Read More Microsoft spells out Office for Mac bugs in Lion Microsoft last week confirmed that customers running Office for Mac will experience problems with the suite on Apple's new Lion operating system. Read More RIM layoffs don't address Apple, Google competition, analysts say Reaction was mixed to the 2,000 layoffs announced by BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, as several analysts said RIM continues to face problems from aggressive smartphone and tablet competitors like Apple and Google. 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 Jonny Evans: Apple iOS 5 beta hints Nuance voice recog for iPhone 5 Even as we get to grips with OS X Lion, there's even more speculation about the voice recognition and personal assistance features we can all look forward to in iOS 5, when your iPhone will begin to seriously augment your life, thanks to Nuance and Apple's purchase of Siri last year. Read More Jonny Evans: Lion users suffer Adobe Apple Flash support war I still agree with Steve Jobs on Flash, but the Apple [AAPL] versus Adobe [ADBE] Flash battle continues to punish customers. Take the introduction of Lion. It isn't as if Apple made any secret about its OS plans. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple beats Nokia as smartphone sales grow Apple has beaten Nokia to become the world's biggest smartphone manufacturer for the first time -- and all it needs to do is just sit tight and it could sell 190 million iPhone sales in 2016. Read More Jonny Evans: Rumor: Apple iPhone 5 ships US September 5 Apple seems set to introduce its next-generation iPhone in the US in early September, rolling the new product(s?) out internationally in subsequent weeks. Will the company introduce the new device in August? This seems more likely as the rumors begin to coincide... Read More
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