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	JR Raphael: Rethinking the Android ecosystem We can't change how manufacturers mess with the Android interface, but we can change how we look at their efforts -- and it's high time to do so. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CIO Perspective Vendor Management in the New Era of IT How can IT organizations encourage greater vendor participation in deploying new and emerging technologies while managing less established industry providers? Hear insights and gain concepts from a panel of Chicago IT leaders at CIO Perspectives on September 11. Register Today In this Issue PayPal, Discover to partner on in-store payments 'Talking' smart cars begin year-long test aimed at accident reduction New video compression tech will cut bandwidth use in half, Ericsson says In America's Cup, Oracle Team USA looks for high tech advantage NetApp touts Fusion-io partnership, server flash management Zoho cloud apps hit with service disruption Investing for transformation in 2013 Rackspace boosts cloud offerings with monitoring service Groups lodge FTC complaints over childrens' online privacy Review: Google Compute Engine rocks the cloud Jonny Evans: iPhone 5 release: Carriers march to 4G/LTE services war Preston Gralla: Verizon will offer Nokia Windows 8 Phones -- could this be the jump-start Microsoft needs? WHITE PAPER: Datawatch Bringing Big Data into your Analytics Strategy. Learn how a report analytics solution can eliminate your content blind spot by allowing you to get to all of your organization's data, so you may take action in improving your business. Learn more. PayPal, Discover to partner on in-store payments PayPal and Discover said 7 million merchants accepting Discover credit cards will begin accepting payments for in-store purchases from PayPal's 50 million users starting in the second quarter of 2013. Read More 'Talking' smart cars begin year-long test aimed at accident reduction Researchers hope they can sharply reduce the number of car accidents by enabling vehicles to communicate with each other -- and they're putting the theory to the test in Ann Arbor, Mich. Read More New video compression tech will cut bandwidth use in half, Ericsson says HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) will revolutionize delivery of TV services to all types of devices including smartphones and tablets, according to Ericsson, which will launch what it says will be the first live TV encoder compatible with the technology at the IBC trade show next month. Read More In America's Cup, Oracle Team USA looks for high tech advantage Forget the fastest sail boat; next year's America's Cup could come down to who has the fastest computer. Read More NetApp touts Fusion-io partnership, server flash management NetApp announced a new management layer for arrays using its Data ONTAP OS, which allows admins to control flash storage in servers as well as on arrays. The company will be using Fusion-io's PCIe flash cards in its arrays. Read More Zoho cloud apps hit with service disruption Zoho Web-hosted collaboration, communication, business and office productivity applications suffered performance problems and service disruptions on Wednesday for about three hours. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Drobo Drobo SAN for Business Live Demo Daily! We want you to learn from the very best–Drobo experts–available every day. Participate in live interactive sessions to see a live demo of Drobo products, ask questions, validate deployment ideas. Our experts cover configuration, sizing, network best practices, and infrastructure monitoring–and talk VMware, Hyper-V, iSCSI, Tiering, SSD acceleration. Join us for a live demo every business day, Monday to Friday Investing for transformation in 2013 How to maximize the return on your investments in disruptive trends like big data, cloud computing and mobility. Read More Rackspace boosts cloud offerings with monitoring service Rackspace has released Cloud Monitoring, which includes an API designed to give users flexibility in monitoring websites and Web applications that run on a variety of platforms, the company said on Wednesday. Read More Groups lodge FTC complaints over childrens' online privacy A coalition of 17 advocacy groups filed complaints with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission against five prominent companies, including McDonald's, claiming that certain of their online marketing practices violate child privacy laws. Read More Review: Google Compute Engine rocks the cloud Google's new compute cloud offers a crisp and clean way to spin up Linux instances and easily tap other Google APIs Read More Jonny Evans: iPhone 5 release: Carriers march to 4G/LTE services war September's new iPhone 5 introduction will see carriers worldwide begin vicious competition to hook new customers up to superfast mobile broadband services. This could be great news for millions of consumers eager to get the most data and the best deals. Read More Preston Gralla: Verizon will offer Nokia Windows 8 Phones -- could this be the jump-start Microsoft needs? Verizon Wireless will carry Windows Phone 8 devices this year, in a major break from the carrier's overall coolness towards all things Microsoft. This could well be the jumpstart that Microsoft's struggling smartphone operating system needs. Read More
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