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	New Mac Trojan hints at ties to high-priced commercial hacking toolkit French security firm Intego discovered a new Mac Trojan horse this week that is being used to target specific individuals. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Webcast Demonstrates New Collaboration Advances An insightful webcast demonstrates how you can harness the power of people-centric collaboration in today's post-PC world. You'll learn about new collaboration tools and technologies and witness firsthand why they're making the experience more immersive and more mobile, in boardrooms, bistros, and everywhere in between. Watch the webcast today. See how these solutions make collaboration possible from iPads to boardrooms. And learn how they're enabling organizations to accelerate decisions, be more productive, and save countless dollars in the process. View the webcast and see for yourself. In this Issue Apple to spend $356 million on security company AuthenTec Robert L. Mitchell: Predictive analystics might not have predicted the Aurora shooter MDM moves beyond mobile devices into Macs Gas poisoning at Apple supplier factory in China leaves one dead, four injured Organs on a chip: Harvard plans to recreate the human body on silicon Preston Gralla: Microsoft admits the obvious -- its Surface tablet may anger manufacturers, endangering Windows 8 Jonny Evans: Why Samsung beating Apple could be good news for iPhone 5 WHITE PAPER: Framehawk An Interactive eGuide: Bring Your Own Device BYOD brings some concerns, blurring the line between personal and corporate use raises security, compliance, and ownership issues. Does the BYOD trend actually make workers more productive, or is IT simply caving in to employee demand? Read Now! Apple to spend $356 million on security company AuthenTec In a deal that should help Apple boost its enterprise security offerings, the iPhone maker is planning to buy mobile security company AuthenTec for $8 per share or a little over $356 million, AuthenTec said Friday. Read More Robert L. Mitchell: Predictive analystics might not have predicted the Aurora shooter The Aurora killer made dozens of suspicious purchases prior to committing his crime. But a proactive data mining initiative that analyzed those transactions in real-time probably would not have caught him, says an expert. Here's why. Read More MDM moves beyond mobile devices into Macs MobileIron now supports OS X Mountain Lion, a sign of growing adoption of non-Windows devices Read More WEBCAST: VMware Virtualizing Exchange KnowledgeVault The Virtualizing Exchange KnowledgeVault contains concise videos on topics related to running Microsoft Exchange in a virtualized environment. View now! Gas poisoning at Apple supplier factory in China leaves one dead, four injured One person died, and four were injured in a gas poisoning accident at an Apple supplier in China, which authorities said was caused by "improper operation" at its subsidiary's waste treatment facility. Read More Organs on a chip: Harvard plans to recreate the human body on silicon One day, pharmaceutical companies might not have to test new drugs on animals or even humans. Instead, drugs could be tested with organ-on-a-chip technologies. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft admits the obvious -- its Surface tablet may anger manufacturers, endangering Windows 8 Microsoft has finally admitted what most everyone believed all along: By manufacturing Windows 8 Surface tablets it will compete with manufacturing partners, and it could endanger the Windows 8 tablet platform. Read More Jonny Evans: Why Samsung beating Apple could be good news for iPhone 5 Apple haters are dancing their best happy dance today, celebrating Samsung's seizure of the biggest-selling smartphone crown even as the copycat case between the two firms takes an insanely childish turn. Enjoy it while you can, because the portents are that this victory won't last. Here's why. Read More
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