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	Apple offers free OS X upgrade to prep for switch to iCloud Apple is offering Mac users a free upgrade to OS X 10.6, better known as Snow Leopard, in an attempt to prep them for the June switch from MobileMe to the newer iCloud online sync and backup service. Read More WHITE PAPER: Compuware Create a World-class Online Experience This white paper outlines the top 10 questions to ask when optimizing your e-commerce applications, and how the right answers can significantly improve your e-commerce application performance. Learn More. In this Issue Jonny Evans: Collected: Apple iPhone 5 to be under 8mm thin, ships Fall Microsoft yanks Office for Mac 2011 upgrade Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft: Battle for digital supremacy Proof-of-concept Android Trojan uses motion sensor to determine tapped keys Look out, Google -- Oakley's developing its own smart glasses Apple pursues ban on altered Samsung Galaxy tablet in Germany Apple, Google and others to face former employees' antitrust suit Apple in talks with iPad trademark challenger to try and settle dispute WHITE PAPER: Amazon Web Services Microsoft SharePoint on the AWS Cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides services & tools for deploying Microsoft® SharePoint® workloads on its cloud infrastructure platform. This white paper discusses general concepts regarding how to use these services and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, and run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS. Deploy SharePoint quickly at lower total cost on AWS Cloud. Learn how Jonny Evans: Collected: Apple iPhone 5 to be under 8mm thin, ships Fall Apple may plan its thinnest smartphone yet, aiming to shave the iPhone 5 to just under 8mm through use of new display technology, that's the latest breakfast rumor this Monday morning. Read More Microsoft yanks Office for Mac 2011 upgrade Microsoft last Friday pulled an Office for Mac 2011 major update from its upgrade servers, acknowledging bugs that have corrupted the Outlook database on some machines. Read More Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft: Battle for digital supremacy From the desktop to digital music, search to mobile devices, these Big Three have shaped our digital lives for more than a decade. Who's winning now? Here's how the battle shakes out. Read More Proof-of-concept Android Trojan uses motion sensor to determine tapped keys A team of researchers from Pennsylvania State University (PSU) and IBM have designed a proof-of-concept Android Trojan app that can steal passwords and other sensitive information by using the smartphone's motion sensors to determine what keys victims tap on their touchscreens when unlocking their phones or inputting credit card numbers during phone banking operations. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Application Security Services U.S. Public Sector Application Security Services bridge the gap between traditional application development processes and techniques, and the requisite security mechanisms needed to increase software assurance and significantly enhance system security. Read Now! Look out, Google -- Oakley's developing its own smart glasses Google might want to use its new smart-glasses prototype to look over its shoulder. Read More Apple pursues ban on altered Samsung Galaxy tablet in Germany A Dusseldorf court has set a date to hear an appeal from Apple, which is seeking an injunction preventing Samsung Electronics from selling a tablet modified to beat an earlier injunction, a court spokesman said on Friday. Read More Apple, Google and others to face former employees' antitrust suit A federal court in California has ordered seven technology companies including Apple, Intel, Adobe and Google to face a private antitrust suit from five former employees, who alleged that the companies conspired to eliminate competition between them for skilled labor to suppress compensation and mobility of employees. Read More Apple in talks with iPad trademark challenger to try and settle dispute Apple and a Chinese company have started talks to try and resolve an ongoing legal dispute over the iPad trademark, according to a lawyer involved in the case. Read More
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