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	A third of IT shops support personal smartphones, tablets at work Some IT shops provide technical support for personal smartphones, tablets and laptops used at work, but the percentage is still relatively small, a Gartner poll found. 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 Apple's new laptop heralds 'Air-izing' of all MacBook Pros Should Microsoft buy Nokia? Bad idea, say analysts Fast networks key to new apps, says White House Apple hustles, patches Java bugs same day as Oracle Mistakes, heavy competition forces Nokia to reboot Microsoft turning to Yammer to beef up social tools, reports say INSIDER Paul Glen: Truth and project time estimates Ira Winkler: Press falls short in reporting on chip hack Western Digital jumps into home router business Amazon upgrades Kindle apps for comics, childen's books First Thunderbolt PC: Acer's new ultrabook Amazon Web Services revises support plans, cuts prices 64-bit OSs, virtualization software on Intel chips vulnerable to hacks Java 7 auto-update could ding Oracle E-Business Suite installs Ruby, Clojure, and Ceylon: Same goal, 3 very different results WordPress 3.4 offers no hassle theme testing Jonny Evans: WWDC 2012: Apple's iPhone and the iRobot supply chain Preston Gralla: Is Windows Phone killing Nokia? 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. Apple's new laptop heralds 'Air-izing' of all MacBook Pros Apple's new Retina MacBook Pro is a harbinger of future changes to the company's laptop line, analysts said today. And those changes could come as soon as October. Read More Should Microsoft buy Nokia? Bad idea, say analysts Nokia's announcement that it plans to cut 10,000 job in coming months resurrected speculation that Microsoft should buy the cell phone maker in order to prop up its struggling Windows Phone platform. Read More Fast networks key to new apps, says White House Fast food franchises have a larger presence in many communities than next generation, high-speed gigabit networks, a fact the White House says it's attempting to address. Read More Apple hustles, patches Java bugs same day as Oracle Breaking with an oft-criticized tradition, Apple this week released a Java update for OS X on the same day that Oracle patched the vulnerabilities for Windows and other operating systems. Read More Mistakes, heavy competition forces Nokia to reboot Nokia is betting on camera functionality, navigation technology and further price reductions for its Windows Phone-based products to turn the company around after a round of cost cuts. Breaking Apple's and Samsung's stranglehold on the smartphone market won't be easy, however. Read More Microsoft turning to Yammer to beef up social tools, reports say Microsoft in serious discussions to buy Yammer, an enterprise social collaboration company, according to reports. Read More INSIDER Paul Glen: Truth and project time estimates Geeks are devoted to Truth, with a capital T. The question 'When will it be done?' feels like a request to lie. Insider; registration required) Read More Ira Winkler: Press falls short in reporting on chip hack When researchers uncovered a back door in a MILSPEC chip, the reports all seemed to imply that it was no big deal. Read More Western Digital jumps into home router business Western Digital today unveiled a line of home wireless routers for accelerating the performance of streaming video, online gaming and VoIP sessions. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Deloitte: Network Risk and TCO A Deloitte survey of enterprise CIOs reveals key differences between using a single-vendor or multivendor approach. See why a focus on initial costs might ignore a long-term impact on operational risk. Read White Paper Amazon upgrades Kindle apps for comics, childen's books Amazon announced updates to its Kindle for iOS, Kindle Cloud Reader and Kindle for Android apps on Thursday. The three apps now support children's books, comics and graphic novels. Read More First Thunderbolt PC: Acer's new ultrabook Thunderbolt ports have reached Windows PCs with Acer's Aspire S5 ultrabook, expanding the availability of the technology beyond Macs. Read More Amazon Web Services revises support plans, cuts prices Amazon has revised its support pricing for Amazon Web Services, expanding basic free support and lowering the cost of premium support. Read More 64-bit OSs, virtualization software on Intel chips vulnerable to hacks Some 64-bit operating systems and virtualization software programs are vulnerable to local privilege escalation attacks when running on Intel processors (CPUs), the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) said in a security advisory on Wednesday. Read More Java 7 auto-update could ding Oracle E-Business Suite installs Oracle has issued an "urgent bulletin" asking desktop administrators to immediately turn off the Java Runtime Environment auto-update option "for all Windows end-user desktops connecting to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i, 12.0, and 12.1" due to a critical incompatibility. Read More Ruby, Clojure, and Ceylon: Same goal, 3 very different results Charles Nutter, Rich Hickey, and Galvin King each discovered that 'simplicity' doesn't mean the same thing Read More WordPress 3.4 offers no hassle theme testing Although taking a few months longer than expected, Automattic and the volunteer developers have finally released version 3.4 of the widely used WordPress blogging platform. 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 Preston Gralla: Is Windows Phone killing Nokia? Nokia bet the farm on Windows Phone when it made a long-range deal with Microsoft to focus on the smartphone operating system. Today's announcement by Nokia saying it would cut nearly 20 percent of its workforce, close research centers, and jettison several top executives makes it appear that the bet didn't pay off. Read More
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