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	Microsoft calls Windows 8 complete, but concerns remain, say analysts Microsoft today announced that it's wrapped up Windows 8 and declared that the operating system has met the "release to manufacturing" (RTM) milestone. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: BI & Analytics Perspectives Computerworld's BI & Analytics Perspectives Conference Hear first-hand from your IT executive peers, including Jim Alexander, Senior Director, Analytics for the Pittsburgh Pirates, and network and share best practices with IT execs from AAA, American Express, FedEx Services, PetSmart, Sony Pictures Entertainment, The Boeing Company, Ticketmaster, US Airways and many more! Register now. In this Issue ISIS reported to launch tests Aug. 20; Google Wallet goes to the cloud Twitter's Political Index uses tweets to gauge presidential race Nexus 7 16GB tablet is back on sale on Google Play store Outlook.com snares 1M sign-ups in first 6 hours The Byte - Google Handwrite, Amazon Instant Video for iPad, Verizon pays, AMD steals talent from Apple Hurricane app debuts for free from American Red Cross Chrome browser now supports Apple's Retina display Industry group formed to guide U.S. payment card upgrade AMD hires Apple platform architect to head processor group Microsoft hopes to settle with Motorola, but only on its own terms Fujitsu, NTT DoCoMo and NEC to form smartphone chip venture Rackspace debuts OpenStack cloud servers Jonny Evans: Microsoft Windows dominance fades as Apple beats HP, Canalys claims Preston Gralla: Does Microsoft need to pay hundreds of millions in subsidies to make Windows 8 a hit? 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. ISIS reported to launch tests Aug. 20; Google Wallet goes to the cloud ISIS, a consortium of three wireless carriers, is reportedly set to launch its mobile payment pilot test on Aug. 20 in Austin and Salt Lake City. Read More Twitter's Political Index uses tweets to gauge presidential race Twitter is looking to take the country's temperature when it comes to the presidential election in November with its new Twitter Political Index. Read More Nexus 7 16GB tablet is back on sale on Google Play store The Nexus 7 with 16GB of storage reappeared "in stock" on the Google Play store site after it was unavailable on the site and in many retail stores in the U.S. for about a week. Read More Outlook.com snares 1M sign-ups in first 6 hours More than 1 million people registered with the new Outlook.com email service on opening day, Microsoft said. Read More The Byte - Google Handwrite, Amazon Instant Video for iPad, Verizon pays, AMD steals talent from Apple Google Handwrite is a new way to search on your mobile device, iPad owners can now access Amazon Instant Video, Verizon Wireless will pay for preventing tethering and AMD hires an Apple chip designer. Read More Hurricane app debuts for free from American Red Cross A hurricane app from the American Red Cross offers location-based NOAA weather alerts and a one-touch "I'm safe" message that users can broadcast via social networks to family and friends in an emergency. Read More Chrome browser now supports Apple's Retina display The latest release of Google's Chrome browser can render webpages with the resolution of Apple's Retina display, the company said on Tuesday, making good on a commitment it made several weeks ago. Read More WEBCAST: Teradata Big Data Done Right In this live, interactive Webcast you will learn how to reap the benefits of big data through a practical unified architecture; how to improve performance with in-memory technology; and how to lower costs and increase scalability through cloud computing. Register now. Industry group formed to guide U.S. payment card upgrade An industry group launched Tuesday will guide a massive upgrade of the U.S. payment card system to a new platform designed to prevent card fraud. Read More AMD hires Apple platform architect to head processor group Advanced Micro Devices has lured Jim Keller from his role as platform architect at Apple to head its processor group as the struggling company tries to reshape its chip strategy and stem a loss in processor market share. Read More Microsoft hopes to settle with Motorola, but only on its own terms Microsoft feels that it has the upper hand in its patent battle with Google-owned Motorola Mobility and wants to put an end to the fight, but only as long as a broad agreement is signed, the company said ina blog post on Tuesday. Read More Fujitsu, NTT DoCoMo and NEC to form smartphone chip venture Japanese electronics heavyweights Fujitsu and NEC, together with the country's largest mobile operator NTT DoCoMo, said Wednesday they will form a new joint venture to build and sell wireless chips for smartphones. Read More Rackspace debuts OpenStack cloud servers Following a four-month beta period, Rackspace has started offering its hosted servers and databases using the open source OpenStack suite of cloud software. Read More Jonny Evans: Microsoft Windows dominance fades as Apple beats HP, Canalys claims As we wait for September's iPhone 5 comes news the Windows age is over, or could be, as the latest Canalys data says with inclusion of iPad sales, Apple is now the world's biggest PC vendor. Read More Preston Gralla: Does Microsoft need to pay hundreds of millions in subsidies to make Windows 8 a hit? Windows 8 may not jumpstart stalled PC sales unless Microsoft pays hundreds of millions of dollars to subsidize the sale of touch-enabled PCs. So says a market research firm, and I think they're on target. Read More
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