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	Apple confirms imprecise iPad battery meter, says it's by design Apple today reacted to reports that the new iPad under-reports its battery status, saying a researcher's analysis was essentially correct but that that's how the tablet and its iOS software were designed. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hosting.com What if your key applications FAIL? Build for 100% application availability in the Cloud with Microsoft SQL Server. Achieve the highest levels of availability, performance, scalability, and security for your mission-critical applications while minimizing cost. Learn more at the April 12 webinar from Microsoft and Hosting.com subject matter experts. Register now! In this Issue Avira unveils Mac antivirus software Jonny Evans: Not just Apple: Working life at the Samsung iPhone factory Amazon Web Services updates Linux implementation Why Linux will never be factor on the desktop Android apps can run on Windows PCs with Bluestacks emulator Jonny Evans: Apple CEO Tim Cook in China as business grows Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Does VMware have a real future? Apple iTunes, Sony PlayStation Network targeted in suit Chinese leader asks Apple's Tim Cook to care for workers Box OneCloud Makes Box a Must-Have iPad App Box unveils cloud service for workplace mobile apps Red Hat: What an open cloud really means RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC Transform End User Computing Turn to EMC to bring new simplicity, power, and efficiency to end user computing-any user, any device, anywhere. Click to continue Avira unveils Mac antivirus software German security company Avira has released free antivirus software for Apple Macs, joining a host of security software providers offering protection for OS X. Read More Jonny Evans: Not just Apple: Working life at the Samsung iPhone factory With all the fuss and bother over Apple and conditions in the iPhone factories, it's easy to imagine worker suffering is something you'll only find care of Cupertino. I take a look at working life at Samsung in an attempt to prove these problems are industry-wide.   Read More Amazon Web Services updates Linux implementation Amazon Web Services has upgraded the Linux image that runs in its cloud to include newer versions of Tomcat, MySQL and Python, while at the same time allowing enterprises to stay on older versions, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday. Read More Why Linux will never be factor on the desktop Linux is awesome. It's a powerful, capable, flexible operating system with tremendous potential. But it's never going to be a factor on the desktop, so don't even waste your time considering it. Read More Android apps can run on Windows PCs with Bluestacks emulator Software company Bluestacks is trying to close the gap between Microsoft's Windows and Google's Android OS with its App Player application, which was released in beta on Tuesday. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple CEO Tim Cook in China as business grows Apple CEO, Tim Cook is in China attending to business at the moment -- as you'd expect, with that country rapidly transforming into the company's biggest market, with huge scope for even faster future growth.   Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Amazon Web Services Why Run Windows Server Apps on AWS? Top 5 Reasons: 1. No New Hardware, 2. Get Started in Minutes, 3. Use Your .NET Skills in the AWS Cloud, 4. On-Demand Test Environments, and 5. Use your Existing Microsoft Licenses. Learn more with on-demand webinar. Watch now! Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Does VMware have a real future? Price is a big weakness when every player in the virtualization market is offering a good-enough free option. Read More Apple iTunes, Sony PlayStation Network targeted in suit A South African inventor has claimed in a U.S. federal court that Apple's iTunes and Sony's PlayStation Network infringe a patent relating to a "data vending system" issued to him in 2004. Read More Chinese leader asks Apple's Tim Cook to care for workers Apple CEO Tim Cook met with a top Chinese official on Tuesday, who called on foreign companies to pay more attention to the care of their workers in the country, according to state-run media. Read More Box OneCloud Makes Box a Must-Have iPad App Box.com unveiled OneCloud today--a new service designed to unite the data from various mobile apps. Box OneCloud promises to make it easier to manage data on mobile devices and be productive from virtually anywhere. OneCloud resolves a fundamental limitation of the Apple iPad, and makes Box a must-have app. Read More Box unveils cloud service for workplace mobile apps Box, a provider of cloud-hosted enterprise collaboration and content management software, will announce a new service designed to consolidate in a single repository companies' mobile applications and the data they generate. Read More Red Hat: What an open cloud really means Open source cloud offerings have specific characteristics that provide benefits above and beyond proprietary offerings, two top officials at Red Hat said during a webinar today. Read More
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