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	Google readies $199 Nexus 7 tablet, report says Google will launch its own sub-$200 7-in. Nexus tablet this week at its Google I/O conference in San Francisco, according to training documents viewed by Gizmodo Australia. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Evolve Customer Care with Collaboration Using collaboration technology to improve customer service gives your company an opportunity to evolve beyond traditional service models to create better customer relationships. While the telephone will always be an option, many customers want experiences where chat, social media, video and self-service are also part of the norm. Download a new white paper from ZK Research to learn how using collaboration technology can help your organization improve customer responsiveness and provide customers with self-service offerings, leading to greater loyalty. In this Issue Box announces support for Android devices Windows Phone 8 smartphones to run Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 chip Five things to look forward to in Apple's iOS 6 Meet the new Mac Pro, about the same as the old Mac Pro Jonny Evans: RIM abandons BlackBerry, industry awaits Apple iPhone 5 effect JR Raphael: Android 4.0 delayed for Toshiba Thrive tablets Sharky: As good as its name Darlene Storm: World's best hacker World Cup kicks off. Be the next zNinja! Don't expect a kinder, gentler Oracle after sales exec's departure 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 Box announces support for Android devices Enterprise cloud storage services provider Box on Monday announced that its OneCloud mobile cloud service now supports Android devices. Starting today, users of the service can access Android apps and store and share Android files. Read More Windows Phone 8 smartphones to run Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 chip Smartphones running Microsoft's upcoming Windows Phone 8 OS will use Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 processor, the chip maker said. Read More Five things to look forward to in Apple's iOS 6 Apple says there are some 200 or so new features in iOS 6, most of which are smaller tweaks and changes. But there are plenty of updates that will change, for the better, how mobile users will use their iOS devices. Read More Meet the new Mac Pro, about the same as the old Mac Pro If you were looking for a bright side to Apple's underwhelming updates to its Mac Pro line of tower computers, it would have to be that Apple hasn't forgotten that it makes such a product. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Deploy and Manage Storage with Ease with NetApp FAS2240 This ESG Lab Validation Report presents the hands-on evaluation and testing results of the FAS2240, NetApp's newly released entry-level storage system. ESG Lab focused on three key areas that make the FAS2240 an appealing offering for small to medium-sized businesses: easy deployment, simple manageability, and performance scalability. View Now Jonny Evans: RIM abandons BlackBerry, industry awaits Apple iPhone 5 effect The smartphone industry meltdown continues. June 29, 2007 saw Apple [AAPL] storm into the sector with the introduction of the first iPhone, closely followed by the debut of the first Android-based devices. Today's reports claim BlackBerry-maker, RIM, is considering splitting its hardware business from its messaging network -- and the industry is in "wait-&-see" mode while it looks to Apple's Fall introduction of the NFC-enabled iPhone 5. Read More JR Raphael: Android 4.0 delayed for Toshiba Thrive tablets Cue the collective sigh: Toshiba is pushing back its plans to upgrade its Thrive tablets to Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich.  Read More Sharky: As good as its name Flashback to the days when this pilot fish is working in a Navy office that has just received a new wide-carriage, high-speed dot-matrix printer called a "Sprinter" -- a name that turns out to be very apt. Read More Darlene Storm: World's best hacker World Cup kicks off. Be the next zNinja! There's a hunt going on and an all-out hack-off competition among the world's top hackers to discover who is the best digital ninja, the zNinja. — Welcome to the first ever Pentester's World Cup! The competition has just kicked off, so you can still join the world's best hackers in hacking the planet to name the zNinja. This World Cup is the only competition where cheating is allowed and even recommended! If you win, you get a free ticket to Black Hat and will stay in the Las Vegas hotel for free. Over 100,000 hackers gone wild have downloaded zAnti and the Pentester's World Cup leaderboard is rapidly changing. May the best hacker win! Read More Don't expect a kinder, gentler Oracle after sales exec's departure Oracle customers hoping that the pending departure of a top company executive will help pave the way for a kinder, gentler sales culture may be engaged in wishful thinking, according to industry observers. Read More
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