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	Apple breezes to PC sales' top spot as Windows share decays Apple sold more PCs worldwide last quarter -- 21 million -- than any rival, retaking the lead it lost the quarter before, U.K.-based Canalys said yesterday. Read More 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! In this Issue Will Outlook.com force Gmail, Yahoo Mail to up their game? Home Depot fights 'abusive' credit card fees with PayPal system Fusion-io software turns servers into shared flash storage Fake users and an angry developer -- Facebook's bad week Video: Social discovery smartphone apps gaining popularity Senate delays, maybe kills, cybersecurity bill RIM unveils its new 4G BlackBerry PlayBook tablet AT&T buying NextWave for $600M to boost its mobile spectrum Oracle cloud hype set for major escalation India's Massive Blackout Tests Outsourcing Providers Nokia adds integrated Groupon deals, route planning to maps app Preston Gralla: Why Windows 8 tablets might help sell iPads Sharon Machlis: 5 changes I'd like in Google Now Jonny Evans: Opinion: iPhone 5 looms, but iPad nano won't appear till October WEBCAST: Citrix Online Metrics That Promote Business Value, Minus the "Geek Speak" Date: Wednesday, September 5 at 10 AM PDT / 1 PM EDT Join Rae Ann Bruno, president of Business Solutions Training, to learn how to transform your current metrics and reports into information valued by the business. Learn More Will Outlook.com force Gmail, Yahoo Mail to up their game? With Microsoft's new Outlook.com free email service getting so much attention, will Google and Yahoo need to update their own email offerings before they start to lose users? Read More Home Depot fights 'abusive' credit card fees with PayPal system The Home Depot says its rollout of a PayPal in-store payment system to 1,976 U.S. stores in March has generally been a success, though it notes that it still accounts for a very small percentage of overall transactions. Read More Fusion-io software turns servers into shared flash storage Fusion-io unveiled software that allows servers with its PCIe flash cards installed to be clustered to create a single, shared pool of high-performance storage capacity. Read More Fake users and an angry developer -- Facebook's bad week With its stock still slumping, Facebook executives were faced with not one but two other pieces of tough news this week. Read More Video: Social discovery smartphone apps gaining popularity Technology workers of Silicon Valley are embracing social apps to find like-minded people nearby and to let VC's know if they are in the neighborhood. IDG tested some apps to see which ones got the quickest response time. Read More Senate delays, maybe kills, cybersecurity bill The U.S. Senate on Thursday failed to end debate on a comprehensive cybersecurity bill, pushing action on the bill into September and potentially killing it. Read More RIM unveils its new 4G BlackBerry PlayBook tablet A new 4G BlackBerry PlayBook will go on sale next week, a year after Research In Motion introduced its first tablet. The updated 7-inch PlayBook will include 4G connectivity and 32GB of storage, but RIM has yet to name a price or a U.S. availability date. Read More WHITE PAPER: 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 AT&T buying NextWave for $600M to boost its mobile spectrum AT&T plans to acquire NextWave Wireless, a holder of spectrum that could be used for mobile data services, for about US$650 million. Read More Oracle cloud hype set for major escalation Oracle Thursday held the first of nearly 100 Cloud Builder Summit events scheduled for locations across the globe between now and December. Read More India's Massive Blackout Tests Outsourcing Providers IT service providers in north and west India were largely unaffected by blackouts that hit 600 million people. But the threat of global power shortages means you should take steps to ensure you're protected -- regardless of where your outsourcing provider is located. Read More Nokia adds integrated Groupon deals, route planning to maps app Nokia is updating its Maps application with integrated Groupon deals and a route planner, as the company tries to find ways to differentiate its smartphones from the competition. Read More Preston Gralla: Why Windows 8 tablets might help sell iPads Microsoft is hoping that its Windows 8 tablets out this fall will eat into the dominant share of the market leader iPad. But one prominent analyst warns that the release of Windows 8 tablets could actually spur sales of iPads. Read More Sharon Machlis: 5 changes I'd like in Google Now Google Now is currently an intriguing but limited information app. A few additions could help turn it into a must-use personal information hub. Read More Jonny Evans: Opinion: iPhone 5 looms, but iPad nano won't appear till October Sharp is preparing to ship displays to Apple [AAPL] for use within the iPhone 5, itself set to debut September 12. However separate reports this morning suggest the 7.85-inch iPad mini displays will only enter production next month, which I believe suggests that device won't debut until later in the year. Read More
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