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	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 WHITE PAPER: Research In Motion Tour Operator Uses BlackBerry Smartphone to Help Drive Sales Sending more than 22,000 high school and university students on trips abroad each year requires logistical prowess and constant communication. Dealing primarily with young adults, Breakaway soon learned that typical office hours were inconvenient and ineffective. Learn More In this Issue Asus, fifth and rising in tablet market With Google Drive, 'personal cloud' will soon overshadow the PC Unlocked Galaxy Nexus gets Google Wallet, sells directly for $399 Schmidt testifies Android did not use Sun's IP Google begins penalizing search 'over-optimization' Apple revenue, profit jump as iPhone sales beat expectations CISPA sponsors support amendments addressing privacy concerns From CIO.com: How to Use Hadoop to Overcome Storage Limitations Intel acquires HPC interconnect assets from Cray Huawei may start selling its mobile chips Optical cables for Thunderbolt ports shipped by Sumitomo Josh Stephens: Results from Geek Day 2012 in Washington D.C. Preston Gralla: Apple's Tim Cook on Windows 8: It's like mating a fridge with a toaster IT Blogwatch: Google Drive: Hard to download, but free (as in beer) 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. 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 With Google Drive, 'personal cloud' will soon overshadow the PC The launch of Google's cloud storage and synchronization service -- Google Drive -- means hundreds of millions of tech users will now be introduced to file sharing, collaboration and integrated document search. 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 Schmidt testifies Android did not use Sun's IP Google developed its Android smartphone software without using Sun's intellectual property and its use of Java in Android was "legally correct," Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, testified in court Tuesday. Read More Google begins penalizing search 'over-optimization' Google is making a change to its search algorithm to penalize what the company's head of Web spam called "over-optimization" and instead favor websites with high-quality content and less refined search-engine optimization. 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 CISPA sponsors support amendments addressing privacy concerns The sponsors of a controversial cyberthreat information-sharing bill will offer new amendments to address privacy concerns, with changes focused on limiting how government agencies can use information shared by private companies, as the bill comes to a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives this week. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Protecting Your Cyberspace Leveraging their vast experience, core intellectual property and acquisition power, HP quietly remains on the front lines in shaping and protecting cyberspace. They offer flexibility in how clients leverage our expertise, through: Managed Security Services, Cloud solutions, Security as a Service, consulting services and outsourcing. Read Now! From CIO.com: How to Use Hadoop to Overcome Storage Limitations Big data is all about storing and accessing large amounts of structured and unstructured data. However, where to put that data and how to access it have become the biggest challenges for enterprises looking to leverage the information. If you haven't yet considererd the open source Hadoop platform, now's the time. Read More Intel acquires HPC interconnect assets from Cray Intel has agreed to buy specific high-performance-computing interconnect assets from server company Cray, the chip maker said on Tuesday. Read More Huawei may start selling its mobile chips Chinese handset maker Huawei Technologies expects its smartphone chip business will help further drive revenue, signaling that the company could try to compete in the worldwide mobile chip market. Read More Optical cables for Thunderbolt ports shipped by Sumitomo For more than a year Intel has talked about graduating from copper wires to fiber optics for Thunderbolt ports on Apple's Mac computers, and Sumitomo Electric Industries has became one of the first companies to deliver optical cables. Read More Josh Stephens: Results from Geek Day 2012 in Washington D.C. Last week I was out in Washington D.C. presenting at Geek Day. It's a trade show and networking event focused on IT professionals (geeks) in both the public and private sectors. As you would imagine, I couldn't resist the opportunity to do some live polling while I had a captive audience. Read More Preston Gralla: Apple's Tim Cook on Windows 8: It's like mating a fridge with a toaster Apple's Tim Cook took time out from Apple's earnings call to give a sideways slam to Windows 8, saying that Microsoft's attempt to get it to work on PCs and tablets was like trying to mate a refrigerator with a toaster. Read More IT Blogwatch: Google Drive: Hard to download, but free (as in beer) Google Drive is here! You can now download the cloudy hard drive, which comes with 5 GB for free. As expected, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is going head-to-head with Dropbox, box.com, SkyDrive, and a gaggle of others, but it's not quite available for everyone yet. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers' heads spin at a plethora of cloud storage choices. Read More
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