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	World's thinnest material could boost Internet speeds Two Nobel Prize winning scientists out of the U.K. have come up with a new way to use graphene – the thinnest material in the world – that could make Internet pipes feel a lot fatter. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco The Right Unified Communications Solution The advantages of today's unified communications are numerous, and there are many choices among solutions. A Cisco white paper is available to help you make the right decision. The paper outlines ten differentiators—from mobile device support to social software—that you should consider before deciding on a unified communications upgrade. White Paper In this Issue Samsung reveals Android-based notepad, updates tablet Sony, Hitachi, Toshiba to merge display businesses Sharky: Why can't we get problem reports this good nowadays? Is Transcend planning a 2TB USB thumb drive? Brocade caters to cloud customers iPhone 5 lost in bar -- or just a stunt? Apple offers to talk with Chinese environmental group Android smartphones surge to 42% share Despite spin-off talk, Air Force picks HP Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Life on Jobs-less Earth WHITE PAPER: IBM Effective Storage and Data Protection for Cloud Computing Reduces the complexity of managing cloud environments with automated solutions for managing data and storage infrastructure, enabling better efficiency for business resiliency, and helping to reduce costs and improve security, all while increasing visibility, control and automation of the cloud storage infrastructure. Read now Samsung reveals Android-based notepad, updates tablet Samsung is expanding its Galaxy family of Android-based devices with the Note, which allows users write directly on the device's screen with a digital pen. The company also introduced the Galaxy Tab 7.7, which comes with a Super AMOLED Plus display, at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin on Thursday. Read More Sony, Hitachi, Toshiba to merge display businesses Sony, Hitachi, and Toshiba have agreed to merge their small and medium-size display businesses into a joint venture, that will have a government-backed investment company, Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, as the largest shareholder. Read More Sharky: Why can't we get problem reports this good nowadays? It's the mid-1980s, and this pilot fish is working as a technician in a retail computer store when a customer arrives with an IBM PC/XT with a problem -- and a two-year-old who says he "put a number in the drive." Read More Is Transcend planning a 2TB USB thumb drive? A video posted on YouTube of memory card maker Transcend and Industrial Technology Research Institute says they have teamed up to produce a USB 3.0 flash drive with up to 2TB of capacity. Read More Brocade caters to cloud customers Brocade has unveiled an infrastructure procurement model designed for cloud computing, along with additions to its new VDX data center switch line. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed Eliminate Network Finger-Pointing Cascade Demo: With Cascade, you get visibility into network optimization and analysis, application performance management, IT consolidation, and security. Watch as Jack, the manager of the network team, deals with user complaints about application performance. See how he uses Riverbed Cascade to solve them. Learn more! iPhone 5 lost in bar -- or just a stunt? Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is said to have lost another iPhone field-test unit in a bar. And so the Web goes into "iPhone 5 release date" overdrive. This time, the portable prototype was left in a San Francisco watering-hole by an errant employee, who is presumably seeking a new position as we speak. However, there do seem to be some holes in the story. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers smell a rat. Read More Apple offers to talk with Chinese environmental group Apple has requested a Chinese environmental group to hold talks on a report that accuses the company's suppliers of polluting the environment and endangering the lives of residents. Read More Android smartphones surge to 42% share Google's Android smartphones surged by 15% in popularity in the U.S., topping out the field with a nearly 42% share, according to a ComScore survey. Read More Despite spin-off talk, Air Force picks HP Even though Hewlett-Packard is considering spinning off or selling its Personal Systems Group, it's still business as usual for one of its larger customers, the U.S. Air Force. Read More Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Life on Jobs-less Earth Some people have already forgotten about just how important Steve Jobs was, not only to Apple, but to all of technology. Read More
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