Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO, Tim Cook takes helm

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	Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO, Tim Cook takes helm Apple cofounder Steve Jobs has stepped down from his position as CEO of the company and Tim Cook, Apple's chief operating officer, has been named to take the helm, Apple announced Wednesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Mimecast Cloud-based Email Archiving: A practical guide Many companies are tackling the challenge of email archiving head-on with cloud-based solutions that scale to business growth, conform to regulatory mandates, and deliver low operational costs. We suggest a solution that emphasizes scalable cloud-base storage, secure access and high availability. Read now In this Issue Steve Jobs' resignation 'end of an era' Steve Jobs at Apple: A timeline 'Operations guy' Tim Cook gets chance to shine at Apple Steve Jobs's fierce reign and legacy IT Blogwatch: Steve Jobs resigns, steps down on health grounds; world shocked iPad will reign supreme through 2013 Researchers find first Android malware targeting Gingerbread Sharon Machlis: Apple under Steve Jobs: 3 game changers Tight supplies push up prices of 13-in. MacBook Air Jonny Evans: Samsung's Apple iPad Kubrick defense looks bad WHITE PAPER: IBM Leveraging the Cloud to Transform Software Delivery In this white paper, we will explain how the cloud and IBM can help you overcome challenges, ensure security, quickly meet goals and improve efficiency in your software delivery environment. Read More Steve Jobs' resignation 'end of an era' Steve Jobs' resignation as the CEO of Apple will not disrupt the company's product plans in the short-term, but could dull its ability to dazzle consumers down the road. Read More Steve Jobs at Apple: A timeline Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple's CEO on Wednesday and Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook was named as his replacement. Jobs will remain with the company as chairman of the board. Read More 'Operations guy' Tim Cook gets chance to shine at Apple With the resignation of Steve Jobs as CEO on Wednesday, Tim Cook, long seen as "the operations guy" at Apple, must prove he is capable of taking full charge of the company. Read More Steve Jobs's fierce reign and legacy The Apple co-founder who has just resigned as CEO was a polarizing force that in the end reshaped the tech industry several times. Read More IT Blogwatch: Steve Jobs resigns, steps down on health grounds; world shocked STEVE JOBS RESIGNS, yell all the headlines this morning. It's believed the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) CEO stepped down due to pancreatic health problems. Is he a visionary or a copycat? An epic manager or a hard taskmaster? And what about his replacement, Tim Cook? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers can find no other story to blog.   Read More WHITE PAPER: SEPATON and Hitachi Data Systems Data Growth and Protection: Addressing the Challenge How does your organization deal with the data deluge? This white paper explores new research that gets to the heart of the challenges of protecting and managing the data you already deal with and preparing for the ever-increasing volumes of data to come. And, it discusses how a single, scaleable solution can address these issues. Read now iPad will reign supreme through 2013 Apple's iPad will retain its dominance of the tablet market through at least 2013, research firm IHS iSuppli said today. Read More Researchers find first Android malware targeting Gingerbread Researchers have spotted the first malware that exploits a critical vulnerability in Android 2.3, aka Gingerbread, finding samples tucked into legitimate apps on Chinese download sites. Read More Sharon Machlis: Apple under Steve Jobs: 3 game changers Only a few companies release products that change -- or create -- an industry. Apple under Steve Jobs gave us at least three.   Read More Tight supplies push up prices of 13-in. MacBook Air With supplies tight for the larger-sized MacBook Air, Apple appears to be favoring its own retail and online stores, leaving some distributors unable to meet demand. Read More Jonny Evans: Samsung's Apple iPad Kubrick defense looks bad Samsung concedes that Apple is leading the innovation space race and goes all sci-fi to say it didn't copy the iPad at all, not now and not never. Things look even more desperate for the Android partner...   Read More
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