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	Google to attempt to woo developers from Apple at Google I/O Google is gearing up for its annual developers conference this week, and analysts say it's time for the company to deliver an ecosystem that can compete head to head with Apple. 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 Microsoft to declare Windows 8 RTM in three weeks, says report Google readies $199 Nexus 7 tablet, report says Google's Nexus 7 tablet move could be costly LulzSec members plead guilty to DDoS attacks on Sony, CIA, others Update: Microsoft buys Yammer for $1.2B Apple warns MobileMe users they have just 7 days before service's death Microsoft says it has no plans to make smartphones RIM committed to company overhaul, as report of Blackberry sell-off surfaces Box OneCloud now supports Android devices Asus Transformer Pad Infinity TF700 review: Stylish, high-performance Android tablet New AMD chip aimed at specialty tablets Oracle's Hurd to spell out new 'customer experience' product strategy Malware infection forces printers to print garbled data, researchers say Verizon, T-Mobile plan spectrum swap ICANN suspends Digital Archery contest for gTLD program Quest says unnamed firm offers to buy it for $2.3B Michael Horowitz: How useful is antivirus software? Preston Gralla: Apple finally admits Macs can get viruses...well, almost admits it WHITE PAPER: Symantec An interactive eGuide: Backup Solutions In this eGuide, Computerworld and sister publications CSO, CIO, and Network World, examine many of the issues that mid-sized companies grapple with today regarding disaster recovery, business continuity, and backup. Read on for expert advice and analysis to help companies protect themselves in the face of disaster. Read Now! Microsoft to declare Windows 8 RTM in three weeks, says report Microsoft is a little more than three weeks away from wrapping up Windows 8, according to leaks of recent builds of the upcoming operating system and claims by a Russian blog. Read More 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 Google's Nexus 7 tablet move could be costly A low-cost Nexus tablet from Google that sports high-end features would raise the stakes for Amazon's Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble's Nook tablet -- and it might even compete with the iPad, said analysts. Read More LulzSec members plead guilty to DDoS attacks on Sony, CIA, others Two members of the LulzSec hacking group Monday pleaded guilty to attacking and disabling the Websites of several large organizations, including Central Intelligence Agency, Sony, Fox Entertainment Group, the Arizona State Police and Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency. Read More Update: Microsoft buys Yammer for $1.2B Microsoft has agreed to acquire Yammer, a maker of cloud-based enterprise social networking (ESN) software, for US$1.2 billion [b] in cash, a deal rumored to be in the works for the past week and a half. Read More Apple warns MobileMe users they have just 7 days before service's death Apple has again warned MobileMe subscribers that it will pull the plug on its sync and storage service at the end of this month. Read More Microsoft says it has no plans to make smartphones Microsoft has no plans to build its own smartphones, contrary to a report from an analyst last week. Read More RIM committed to company overhaul, as report of Blackberry sell-off surfaces Research in Motion reiterated its commitment to turning the company around, even as a report said RIM could be planning to split off its BlackBerry smartphone division. Read More Box OneCloud now supports Android devices Box announced that its OneCloud enterprise mobile cloud service now supports Android, allowing companies to access Android applications and store and share Android data in Box's public cloud. Read More 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 Asus Transformer Pad Infinity TF700 review: Stylish, high-performance Android tablet The long-awaited Asus Transformer Pad Infinity blasts ahead of the pack to establish itself as the best-performing Android tablet we've seen to date. Read More New AMD chip aimed at specialty tablets Tablet devices designed for use in hospitals and stores could get better graphics through Advanced Micro Devices' latest low-power G-T16R embedded processor, which the company announced on Monday. Read More Oracle's Hurd to spell out new 'customer experience' product strategy Oracle is planning to build on its acquisitions of companies such as ATG, Fatwire and RightNow with a new product strategy centered around "customer experience management," as co-president Mark Hurd will explain on Monday during an event in New York. Read More Malware infection forces printers to print garbled data, researchers say Printers connected to Windows computers infected with new variants of a malware program called Trojan.Milicenso, will automatically print out pages full of garbled data, according to security researchers from antivirus firm Symantec. Read More Verizon, T-Mobile plan spectrum swap Verizon Wireless will swap spectrum with T-Mobile USA in the AWS (advanced wireless service) band, if Verizon can get regulatory approval to buy the spectrum from a group of cable companies, the companies announced Monday. Read More ICANN suspends Digital Archery contest for gTLD program ICANN has suspended the Digital Archery contest part of its new Generic Top-level Domain program, which was destined to decide which gTLD applications would be handled first. The future of this application process is still to be determined, ICANN said during a news conference in Prague on Monday. Read More Quest says unnamed firm offers to buy it for $2.3B System management software vendor Quest said Monday that an unnamed "strategic bidder" had submitted an acquisition offer of approximately $2.3 billion. Read More Michael Horowitz: How useful is antivirus software? Does antivirus software catch 10% or 90% of the malware targeted at Windows users? We may have an answer. And, three Defensive Computing suggestions slightly off the beaten track. Read More Preston Gralla: Apple finally admits Macs can get viruses...well, almost admits it Apple has long touted security of its Mac operating system, contrasting it with what it portrays as security-hole-ridden Windows. Now Apple is finally admitting that Macs can get viruses, too...well, it doesn't go quite that far, but almost admits it. Read More
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