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	New iPad shortchanges users on battery life, says expert Apple is shortchanging new iPad owners on battery power, an analyst said today. Read More 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 In this Issue LTE option poses data dilemma for iPad, smartphone users Apple to be top mobile processor firm, In-Stat says New iPad already accounts for 1 in 15 Apple tablets Apple's new iPad is as fragile as its predecessor Apple's CEO meets with Beijing's mayor, calls for cooperation Jonny Evans: Apple CEO Tim Cook in China as business grows Apple denies new iPad overheating concerns Jonny Evans: Opinion: About Consumer Reports and this 'hot iPads are comfy' crisis SugarSync revamps data backup, sync service for iPad Apple criticized for omitting factory workers from cash pile Apple to offer royalty-free nano-SIM patents Nokia lashes out at Apple's royalty-free nano-SIM US lawmakers question iPhone app developers in privacy inquiry Sharon Machlis: New iPad vs. iPad 2: office faceoff Jonny Evans: Not just Apple: Working life at the Samsung iPhone factory Jonny Evans: Opinion: Why TV fears the Apple iBroadcast 'revolution' 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! LTE option poses data dilemma for iPad, smartphone users The new iPad's LTE option, which enables access to fast 4G networks, means customers can use up an entire month's worth of data in a couple of hours. Bandwidth-versus-cost poses a dilemma for carriers, too. Read More Apple to be top mobile processor firm, In-Stat says Apple is an iconic consumer electronics company with a string of massively successful products, but it could also become the world's largest mobile processor company by the end of the year, according to a study due to be released by In-Stat later this week. Read More New iPad already accounts for 1 in 15 Apple tablets A week after the launch of the new iPad, the device now accounts for about 1 in 15 Apple tablets accessing the Internet, a mobile ad network said today. Read More Apple's new iPad is as fragile as its predecessor Apple's new iPad will prove to be as fragile to drops and other accidents as its predecessor, the iPad 2, an after-sales warranty firm said today. Read More Apple's CEO meets with Beijing's mayor, calls for cooperation Apple's CEO Tim Cook met with Beijing's mayor on Monday, and called for increased cooperation with China's capital city along with market expansion, according to a report from Chinese state-run press. 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 Apple denies new iPad overheating concerns Apple on Tuesday denied any overheating concerns on the new iPad, saying that the product operates well within its thermal specifications. Read More Jonny Evans: Opinion: About Consumer Reports and this 'hot iPads are comfy' crisis Read all about it as the latest report from the Church of Stupid proves, albeit in a back-handed way, that Apple really is the only firm worth writing about in town, as Consumer Reports climbs aboard its Cupertino-criticism carriage to slate the new iPad for being "not uncomfortable". Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications Is Cloud the Answer to Federal IT Savings? In this eGuide, Computerworld and its sister publications CIO and Network World have collected interviews and articles that cover some of the biggest issues faced by federal agency IT departments today. Read on to learn about the technology challenges the U.S. government is facing, and how some agencies are dealing with them. Read now. SugarSync revamps data backup, sync service for iPad SugarSync today introduced a completely redesigned app re-written from the ground up to be optimized for the iPad. Read More Apple criticized for omitting factory workers from cash pile A watchdog group issued a renewed call for Apple to address what this group considers poor working conditions for factory workers in China, criticizing the company for not assigning any of its US$98 billion cash pile to address the issues. Read More Apple to offer royalty-free nano-SIM patents The battle over next-generation nano-SIM card technology intensified after Apple sent a letter to the director general of standards organization ETSI, saying its proposal will be royalty-free, according to a report. Read More Nokia lashes out at Apple's royalty-free nano-SIM Apple's royalty-free nano-SIM is an empty promise, because the company doesn't have any essential patents related to its nano-SIM proposal, a Nokia spokesman said on Monday. Read More US lawmakers question iPhone app developers in privacy inquiry Ranking Democrats Henry Waxman and G.K. Butterfield of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee sent letters on Thursday to developers of iOS apps, asking for information on how the programs collect and store user data. Read More Sharon Machlis: New iPad vs. iPad 2: office faceoff We line up the old and new iPads side by side to see if there really is a noticeable difference between them. 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 Jonny Evans: Opinion: Why TV fears the Apple iBroadcast 'revolution' Change. Change hurts. The same is true for any mature industry. And the television industry faces big, big change, and big, big fear. Apple is coming, and TV is running scared. Read More
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