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	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 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. In this Issue Labor rights groups say worker conditions in China are still miserable Is the market for personal printers dying? Apple v. Samsung: What the jury was told Lenovo, EMC join forces on storage, servers Apple breezes to PC sales' top spot as Windows share decays Slow PC sales projection hits Seagate stocks Crucial unveils bargain-basement-priced SSDs for older laptops Sharky: What are the odds? Jonny Evans: Opinion: iPhone 5 looms, but iPad nano won't appear till October Judge sides with HP, rules that Oracle must continue porting software to Itanium Most firms have no big data plans, survey finds RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: FileMaker, Inc Create, deploy and manage custom business apps for iPad The FileMaker Platform is a complete software suite to create, deploy, and manage custom business apps for iPad and iPhone. Design and build stunning iOS apps. Integrate mobile apps into existing enterprise systems. Deploy and instantly update your apps. Secure your apps with industry-standard authentication. Learn more, Watch overview video, Read the white paper > Labor rights groups say worker conditions in China are still miserable Working conditions at some electronics manufacturing factories in China continue to be terrible, with some employees beaten by guards, some docked pay for missing production targets and many working hours beyond legal overtime limits, Chinese and labor activists told U.S. lawmakers. Read More Is the market for personal printers dying? Home and small business users are printing less while making wider use of the Web and offline print services. Read More Apple v. Samsung: What the jury was told The 10 California jurors who will decide the rights and wrongs in the battle between Apple and Samsung were sworn in late Monday and alongside instructions on how to proceed during the case, the U.S. judge presiding over the case explained to them the basics of the high-profile battle. Read More Lenovo, EMC join forces on storage, servers Lenovo and EMC will team up to develop and sell server and storage technology, with an eye to the Chinese market, the companies said. Read More 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: M*Modal Speech Understanding: The Intelligent Speech Alternative This white paper reveals how cloud-based Speech Understanding technology and services convert the physician narrative into a high quality and customized electronic record that improves the quality of clinical data, while accelerating and automating the documentation process. Learn More Slow PC sales projection hits Seagate stocks Seagate's stock price dropped 8% today after the company projected a weak first-quarter outlook based on slowing PC sales. Read More Crucial unveils bargain-basement-priced SSDs for older laptops Crucial today announced a new line of SSDs aimed at users who want to upgrade their pre-2011 notebooks with 128GB and 256GB models that sell for $100 and $190, respectively. Read More Sharky: What are the odds? First-level support pilot fish at this hospital gets a call from the secretary at the dental clinic: The digital X-ray unit isn't working, and that's all she knows. Fish figures his odds of improving the situation are 50-50 -- maybe. 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 Judge sides with HP, rules that Oracle must continue porting software to Itanium A California court on Wednesday ordered Oracle to continue porting its software to the Intel Itanium chips used by Hewlett-Packard in a number of its servers. Read More Most firms have no big data plans, survey finds A survey of 255 high-level IT managers and storage admins found that they have no plans to use big data analytics and showed that Fibre Channel drives no longer make up the bulk of purchases for enterprise storage capacity. Read More
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