Does the iPad cannibalize Apple's laptops?

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	Does the iPad cannibalize Apple's laptops? Is Apple cutting the MacBook's throat with the iPad? Apple CEO Tim Cook seems to think so, and analysts agree. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Private Cloud: Lessons Learned Along the Way A recent IDG Research Services study confirms that the private cloud is indeed full of promise. Agility. Efficiency. Cost savings. But realizing those rewards can be an arduous path. Now, you can leverage what Cisco learned on their own path to the private cloud. View Now In this Issue New iPad owners pay big 'halo' dividends for Apple Preston Gralla: Wozniak: Windows Phone is so beautiful, Steve Jobs might have been reincarnated by Microsoft to help design it Jonny Evans: Apple patent suggests NFC for iPhone 5 Snow Leopard users most prone to Flashback infection Canonical gears Linux upgrade to the cloud MotionX Sleep for iPhone Microsoft invests in new Barnes & Noble unit, settles litigation Ex-Sun boss McNealy sides with Oracle in Google dispute Why is Apple CEO slamming laptop/tablet hybrids? Microsoft re-releases Office for Mac 2011 upgrade after fixing bugs INSIDER How Android stacks up Apple's Sir Jonathan Ive wins British Visionary Innovator award WHITE PAPER: Imation Scalable Storage 7 Simple Truths About Tiering Your Data Dealing with the explosion of extreme data means more than containing it all. It's about determining what data is most useful to your business and where "speed meets need." Learn how you can use data tiering to transform unstructured data into "content" while keeping protection high and costs low. View Now New iPad owners pay big 'halo' dividends for Apple The iPad is giving Apple entree to millions of customers who have never purchased one of company's products before, a research firm said today. Read More Preston Gralla: Wozniak: Windows Phone is so beautiful, Steve Jobs might have been reincarnated by Microsoft to help design it Co-founder of Apple Steve Wozniak believes that Windows Phone 7 sports a more beautiful interface than the iPhone and Android phones, so much so that he jokingly said that Microsoft may have managed to reincarnate Steve Jobs to help with its design. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple patent suggests NFC for iPhone 5 We've been on a roll of iPhone 5 rumors in recent weeks as Apple [AAPL] speculation moves to the next expected big product release, now a new 'gifting' patent filing hints at an NFC (Near Field Communications) future for Cupertino's smartphone, perhaps inside the next model. Read More Snow Leopard users most prone to Flashback infection Of the Macs that have been infected by the Flashback malware, nearly two-thirds are running OS X 10.6, better known as Snow Leopard, a Russian antivirus company said. Read More Canonical gears Linux upgrade to the cloud Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS will feature the Essex release of the OpenStack cloud fabric layer Read More MotionX Sleep for iPhone Most apps take aim at some small slice of your life and help improve it. MotionX Sleep is more like the rock band The Kinks--it wants to be with you all day, and all of the night. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Getting Started with DB2 Application Development Learn how easy it is to get started on DB2 application development. This e-book includes topics such as using DB2 Express-C, writing SQL statements, working with open source tools and more. Read Now Microsoft invests in new Barnes & Noble unit, settles litigation Microsoft will invest $300 million in a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary, which will include the digital Nook and College businesses of Barnes & Noble, the companies said in joint statement on Monday. Read More Ex-Sun boss McNealy sides with Oracle in Google dispute Former Sun boss Scott McNealy sided with Oracle on Thursday in its dispute with Google over Android, testifying in court that companies needed a license to use Sun's Java programming interfaces. Read More Why is Apple CEO slamming laptop/tablet hybrids? When Apple CEO Tim Cook dissed the whole idea of hybrid mobile computers, he may have been showing unease about the rise of laptop/tablet hybrids. Read More Microsoft re-releases Office for Mac 2011 upgrade after fixing bugs Microsoft yesterday re-released Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 2 (SP2) after fixing a bug that wormed into the original update. Read More INSIDER How Android stacks up Android device activations have skyrocketed lately, and now average around 850,000 a day. That's quite a leap from the first quarter of 2010, when Android activations were averaging a mere 65,000 per day. Android is currently the most popular mobile operating system in the world, as research firm Gartner reported late last year that Android devices accounted for more than half of all smartphones sold worldwide in the third quarter of 2011. Insider (registration required) Read More Apple's Sir Jonathan Ive wins British Visionary Innovator award Ive won by a large margin with almost fifty per cent of the vote (46.6%). In second place was Sir Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the world wide web) with 18.8 per cent of the vote. Read More
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