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	How fast are the MacBook's USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt ports? The new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air are the only laptops that support both USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt ports for external devices. The performance advantage for peripherals is tremendous. 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 AMD adds ARM processor as it looks beyond x86 Jonny Evans: WWDC 2012: Apple's iPhone and the iRobot supply chain Chambers: We Should Have Killed Cisco Cius Earlier Apple runs out of Retina MacBook Pros Chinese police investigate Foxconn worker's fatal fall Sharky: Just wait till you get a call for a thumb reset Apple's all-flash MacBook Pro, iCloud drive industry changes Retina MacBook Pro 'least-repairable' notebook ever, says iFixit JR Raphael: The Google I/O Countdown Contest: Win an Acer Iconia Tab A510 tablet! RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Denver Final Week to Register! IT Roadmap only comes to Denver once a year so don't miss this opportunity to join hundreds of local colleagues who will gain a year's worth of enterprise-ready ideas, answers, best practices, and key contacts all in one day – in one place. Attend Free. IT Roadmap Denver – 6/20 - Colorado Convention Center. AMD adds ARM processor as it looks beyond x86 Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday said it will integrate an ARM processor with upcoming x86 chips, marrying two rival architectures and ending more than a year of speculation around AMD's plans to use ARM technology. Read More Jonny Evans: WWDC 2012: Apple's iPhone and the iRobot supply chain "It's hard for me to get emotional as you can see my emotion sensors haven't been programmed yet," said Siri at the beginning of Apple's [AAPL] WWDC event this week. But Siri isn't the only robot inside Cupertino: in future, Apple and its manufacturers will be where the robots live. We're way beyond The Jetsons, here. Read More Chambers: We Should Have Killed Cisco Cius Earlier SAN DIEGO -- Cisco should have shuttered Cius nine months before it did, CEO John Chambers told reporters at the CiscoLive! conference here this week. Read More Apple runs out of Retina MacBook Pros Apple has exhausted supplies of its new $2,200 MacBook Pro that sports a high-resolution "Retina" screen, with the company's online store reporting a wait of three to four weeks by Tuesday's end. Read More WHITE PAPER: FileMaker, Inc Create, deploy and manage custom business apps for iPad The FileMaker Platform is a complete software suite to create, deploy, and manage custom business apps for iPad and iPhone. Design and build stunning iOS apps. Integrate mobile apps into existing enterprise systems. Deploy and instantly update your apps. Secure your apps with industry-standard authentication. Learn more, Watch overview video, Read the white paper > Chinese police investigate Foxconn worker's fatal fall A worker at a Foxconn facility in southwestern China fell to his death on Wednesday, just a week after a dispute erupted with company employees in the same city. Read More Sharky: Just wait till you get a call for a thumb reset This company starts using fingerprint readers for authentication -- which elicits curiosity, some suspicion and a lot of confusion from users. Typical question: "Do I have to register all ten of them?" Read More Apple's all-flash MacBook Pro, iCloud drive industry changes The announcement by Apple that it is selling a flash-only MacBook, combined with native iCloud support, will likely lead to a drop in SSD prices and move other laptop manufacturers in a similar direction. Read More Retina MacBook Pro 'least-repairable' notebook ever, says iFixit iFixit, a popular electronics do-it-yourself weabsite, today gave the new MacBook Pro with the Retina display its worst-possible repair score of just 1 out of a possible 10. Read More JR Raphael: The Google I/O Countdown Contest: Win an Acer Iconia Tab A510 tablet! Google's I/O developers' conference is just over two weeks away -- and we're celebrating by giving away a brand spankin' new Iconia Tab A510 tablet. So, are you feeling lucky? Read More
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