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	Richi Jennings: Twitter down! #FAIL but no #WHALE... Twitter went down hard twice in a few hours. It's back to the old days, except this time, there was no Failwhale, just timeouts galore. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers get a life for a short time. 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 Jonny Evans: Apple partner Foxconn says Fall iPhone 5 will be the 'Samsung-killer' Preston Gralla: When it comes to PR and hype, is Microsoft the new Apple? JR Raphael: Samsung's Galaxy S III and NFC: 2 cool contact-free innovations Darlene Storm: World's best hacker World Cup kicks off. Be the next zNinja! Sharon Machlis: Mobile apps & more for international travel Shark Tank: As good as its name WHITE PAPER: Amazon Web Services Microsoft SharePoint on the AWS Cloud - Learn How! This white paper discusses how to use these services and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, & run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS. Learn More! Jonny Evans: Apple partner Foxconn says Fall iPhone 5 will be the 'Samsung-killer' The smartphone wars take a new twist as Apple [AAPL] preps the Fall release of the iPhone 5, with Foxconn leader Terry Gou promising the coming smartphone will "put Samsung's Galaxy III to shame," when it ships. Read More Preston Gralla: When it comes to PR and hype, is Microsoft the new Apple? Move over Apple, Microsoft has become the new king of PR. It appears to be overtaking Apple's mastery at setting the blogosphere and tech press atwitter at the slightest rumor. Read More JR Raphael: Samsung's Galaxy S III and NFC: 2 cool contact-free innovations Samsung's Galaxy S III has its share of ups and downs, but one place where the phone really shines is in the area of contact-free interactions. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds Ditch Your Spreadsheets with FREE IP Address Tracker Tool! Tired of using home-grown IP address tools to track down conflicting addresses and to see which ones are free? Ditch your spreadsheet for good! Our FREE tool gives you a unified view of your IP address space and the tools to manage it. Download the free IP Address Tracker tool today! 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 Sharon Machlis: Mobile apps & more for international travel Heading overseas with a mobile device? Here are some apps that are especially useful for international travel, whether to cut down on pricey data use, find a data connection or get help with a foreign language. Read More Shark Tank: 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
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