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	First BlackBerry 10 smartphone to launch in October, reports say Reports indicate that the first BlackBerry 10 smartphone will be announced by mid-August and will be launched in October, somewhat earlier than expected. 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. In this Issue The future of the $200 tablet Unlocked Galaxy Nexus gets Google Wallet, sells directly for $399 iPhone sales boom pushes Apple to first-quarter records Apple revenue, profit jump as iPhone sales beat expectations Asus, fifth and rising in tablet market AMD gains x86 processor market share on Intel in Q1 Sprint posts loss, plans WiMax for Boost and Virgin Sprint to stick with unlimited data, likely even for an iPhone on LTE Jonny Evans: Opinion: Apple's Tim Cook to Google 'Switch off your photocopiers' Matt Hamblen: Quick! Dispatch out that gazpacho, Ms. Siri AT&T revenue, net income up on smartphone sales Tablets will be most users' main computing device, Forrester says Look out, Google, Oakley's developing its own smart glasses IT Blogwatch: iPhone 5 release date hint in WWDC iOS 6 rumors 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 The future of the $200 tablet The low-end, under-$200 tablet market is on the brink of a transformation, and that means you'll soon be able to get a lot more value for a lot less money. Read More Unlocked Galaxy Nexus gets Google Wallet, sells directly for $399 Google said Tuesday it was going direct to consumers again, selling the Galaxy Nexus smartphone on Google Play for $399. The unlocked smartphone will also run the Google Wallet mobile payment app. Read More iPhone sales boom pushes Apple to first-quarter records Apple on Tuesday announced record first-quarter revenue on the back of soaring iPhone sales, with an assist from the iPad. Read More Apple revenue, profit jump as iPhone sales beat expectations Despite concerns about competition from Android devices, Apple managed to exceed expectations for iPhone sales for its second fiscal quarter, reporting a healthy year-over-year jump in both revenue and profit. Read More Asus, fifth and rising in tablet market Asus in 2011 became one of the top five tablet makers, and though it still lags somewhat behind the market leaders, analysts say its influence on the market is clearly on the rise. Read More AMD gains x86 processor market share on Intel in Q1 Advanced Micro Devices gained market share on Intel in worldwide x86 processor shipments during the first quarter on the strength of mobile and desktop shipment growth, Mercury Research said Wednesday. Read More Sprint posts loss, plans WiMax for Boost and Virgin Sprint Nextel will start offering 4G WiMax service to its Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile prepaid customers later this quarter, CEO Dan Hesse said after the company reported a net loss for the first quarter. Read More WHITE PAPER: CyrusOne Colocation: The Logical Home for the Cloud That environment is colocation—sophisticated data centers where some of the biggest enterprises and cloud providers in the world can offload the risks of growing capital costs, facility management and obsolescence and focus on their core mission. Learn More! Sprint to stick with unlimited data, likely even for an iPhone on LTE Sprint plans to stick with unlimited data plans for its smartphones, and that apparently applies even if the next iPhone runs over 4G LTE, which pumps data to user much faster than 3G, Sprint officials said. Read More Jonny Evans: Opinion: Apple's Tim Cook to Google 'Switch off your photocopiers' "I would highly prefer to settle than to battle," Cook told analysts after Apple's financial call. But that's not an admission the company knows it can't fight on, it's the sad shrug of a reluctant warrior, prepared to fight, but ready to make peace. Read More Matt Hamblen: Quick! Dispatch out that gazpacho, Ms. Siri Apple's new TV ads for Siri exaggerate what's clearly beta technology. Read More AT&T revenue, net income up on smartphone sales Growth in mobile services largely due to smartphone sales pushed AT&T revenue up 1.8%, with a 5.2% increase in revenue for the first quarter of 2012 compared to the year-ago quarter, the company reported. Read More Tablets will be most users' main computing device, Forrester says Tablets will become most users' primary computing device within the next four years after a period of explosive growth, a Forrester Research analyst believes. Read More 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 IT Blogwatch: iPhone 5 release date hint in WWDC iOS 6 rumors Does WWDC 2012 hold clues to the iPhone 5 release date? It's assumed that we'll see iOS 6, but will Apple revert to a summer announcement schedule, or keep mum until fall? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers read the runes. Read More
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