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	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 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 Verizon Wireless to pay $1.25M fine for allegedly blocking tethering apps Jonny Evans: Opinion: iPhone 5 looms, but iPad nano won't appear till October Apple asks court to sanction Samsung by ordering in its favor Samsung building new mobile flash storage chips JR Raphael: Verizon's tethering fiasco: A lesson in deception and denial Second tablet with Google's Android 4.1 ships for around $125 Launch of Nexus Q streaming device delayed, as Google adds features Nokia adds integrated Groupon deals, route planning to maps app Verizon set to sell Android 4.0 Pantech Marauder for $50 Mobile malware cases nearly triple in first half of 2012, says NetQin Richi Jennings: iPhone 5 release date confirmed, as Apple amps Chinese sweat WEBCAST: VMware Virtualizing SAP This KnowledgeVault has answers to questions in a series of concise videos, webinars and assets that explain how SAP and VMware work together to deliver optimal application performance in a virtualized environment. View Now! Verizon Wireless to pay $1.25M fine for allegedly blocking tethering apps Verizon Wireless has agreed to pay $1.25 million to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to resolve a complaint that it blocked third-party tethering applications on Android phones. Read More Jonny Evans: Opinion: iPhone 5 looms, but iPad nano won't appear till October Sharp is preparing to ship displays to Apple for use within the iPhone 5, itself set to debut Sept. 12. However separate reports 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 Apple asks court to sanction Samsung by ordering in its favor Apple has requested a court in California to sanction Samsung Electronics in a patent infringement dispute by granting judgment in favor of Apple, after the South Korean company released to the press documents including exhibits that were not allowed as evidence in the suit. Read More Samsung building new mobile flash storage chips Samsung Electronics has started producing new smartphone and tablet flash storage chips, which the company said is four times faster than its predecessors. Read More JR Raphael: Verizon's tethering fiasco: A lesson in deception and denial Verizon may have agreed to adjust its policies on smartphone tethering, but the carrier continues to mislead and deceive its customers about what's really going on. Read More WHITE PAPER: Virident Systems, Inc. GPL Licensed Solid-state Storage Performance Analysis This lab brief explores the capabilities and benefits of SSDBench, a freely available benchmarking tool that's purpose-built for solid-state application workload performance analysis. Learn More Second tablet with Google's Android 4.1 ships for around $125 Prices are dropping on tablets running Android 4.1 OS, with Indian company Karbonn Mobiles announcing a tablet priced at around $125 and using Google's latest OS, code-named Jelly Bean. Read More Launch of Nexus Q streaming device delayed, as Google adds features The launch of Google's Nexus Q media streaming device has been postponed, and those who preordered will get the device free, the company said. 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 Verizon set to sell Android 4.0 Pantech Marauder for $50 Verizon Wireless will sell the Android 4.0 Pantech Marauder smartphone for $49.99, after rebate, with a two-year service agreement starting Thursday. Read More Mobile malware cases nearly triple in first half of 2012, says NetQin Mobile malware is rising fast, infecting nearly 13 million phones in the world during the first half of 2012, up 177% from the same period a year ago, according to Beijing-based security vendor NetQin. Read More Richi Jennings: iPhone 5 release date confirmed, as Apple amps Chinese sweat The new iPhone "5" release date is confirmed by various sources and by Apple partners' feverish activity in China. Apple is strongly expected to announce the device on Sept. 12 and ship on Sept. 21. We might also see the 7-8 inch iPad Mini. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers separate specious rumor from triangulated fact. Read More
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