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	The 'sealed-box' Mac: Cutting-edge design or planned obsolescence? Apple's new top-of-the-line 15-in. MacBook Pro, with its ground-breaking Retina display, is drool-worthy, says columnist Richard Hoffman. But it comes with a cost: There are no user-replaceable parts whatsoever. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Improving Governance, Risk and Compliance In this webcast you'll learn how your organization can become more responsive to financial market challenges while reassuring decision makers the accuracy of execution. Register Now In this Issue Apple not most valuable firm ever, says press watchdog Apple, Facebook put Prineville on the map Apple stock price hits record high as investors await iPhone 5, iPad Mini Apple reclaims tablet supremacy with 70% share in Q2 Apple vs. Samsung jury to face 700+ questions on verdict form How police tracked down Steve Jobs' stolen iPads Jobs burglary suspect enters no plea, case continued QuickPoll: Which Apple/Samsung smartphone rival is likely to fold? Apple pushes iMessage after SMS spoof revealed, but tech under patent cloud What you need to know about the iPhone SMS spoof attack Pinterest goes all-in with mobile, releasing Android, iPad apps Mobile Web browsing on iOS devices mushrooms as BlackBerry declines Motorola Mobility files new patent claim against Apple with U.S. ITC Jonny Evans: Is Apple's iTV television plan in trouble? Jonny Evans: Apple's thinner, lighter, smarter iPad nano plan and why it matters Michael Horowitz: iOS upgrade failure wipes out iPad Jonny Evans: Apple's iPeople get world's largest iPhone arts exhibition Richi Jennings: New iPhone 5 release date nears: More pictures leak Jonny Evans: 4 iPhone features I'd like to improve in iPhone 5 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 > Apple not most valuable firm ever, says press watchdog Contrary to most reports, Apple is not yet the most valuable company of all time, according to calculations made by the Columbia Journalism Review. Read More Apple, Facebook put Prineville on the map Apple and Facebook this week each filed plans to expand data center operations in Prineville, Ore., a little community that's on its way to becoming one of the largest data center locations in U.S. Read More Apple stock price hits record high as investors await iPhone 5, iPad Mini Apple's share price on Friday closed at an all-time high, climbing nearly $12 to just over $648 a share, a number that sets the value of the firm at more than $600 billion. Read More Apple reclaims tablet supremacy with 70% share in Q2 Apple dominated the global tablet market last quarter on the back of record sales, a research firm said today, and reclaimed a massive lead over rivals. Read More Apple vs. Samsung jury to face 700+ questions on verdict form Imagine the longest, most complex government form you've ever had to fill out and you start to have an idea what jurors will face as they begin to consider their verdict in the patent infringement case between Apple and Samsung. Read More How police tracked down Steve Jobs' stolen iPads The digital breadcrumbs left behind when people use Internet-connected gadgets are what led California investigators to recover iMacs, iPads and other items stolen from the home of the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Read More Jobs burglary suspect enters no plea, case continued The man accused of breaking into the home of late Apple CEO Steve Jobs appeared in a California court on Monday morning but did not enter a plea. Read More QuickPoll: Which Apple/Samsung smartphone rival is likely to fold? While Samsung and Apple thrive in the overall smartphone market, the situation is uncertain, perhaps dire, for several cell-phone vendors, including Research In Motion, Nokia and Motorola. Which of the smartphone rivals is most endangered? Read More Apple pushes iMessage after SMS spoof revealed, but tech under patent cloud iMessage, the Apple messaging technology that the company has urged customers use to avoid an SMS spoofing bug, remains under a patent litigation cloud, with a trial slated for November. 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 What you need to know about the iPhone SMS spoof attack SMS text messaging is certainly not exclusive to Apple or its iconic iPhone smartphone. But, apparently there is something unique about the way Apple delivers SMS messages that makes the iPhone particularly vulnerable to spoofing or smishing (SMS phishing) attacks. Read More Pinterest goes all-in with mobile, releasing Android, iPad apps Looking to get in on the booming mobile market, social network Pinterest has unveiled mobile apps for its pinboard service. Read More Mobile Web browsing on iOS devices mushrooms as BlackBerry declines Web usage by iPhone and iPad owners has grown by 35% in North American over the past year, while browsing with BlackBerry smartphones and the PlayBook tablet has dropped by 25%. Read More Motorola Mobility files new patent claim against Apple with U.S. ITC Google-owned Motorola Mobility has filed yet another claim against Apple with the U.S. International Trade Commission, this time asserting that devices including the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch infringe patents related to features such as email notifications, location reminders, and media players. Read More Jonny Evans: Is Apple's iTV television plan in trouble? Apple is chatting with cable television firms with a view to offering a variant of the Apple TV as a set top box, but do these discussions suggest the company's plan to disrupt the TV industry faces resistance? Read More Jonny Evans: Apple's thinner, lighter, smarter iPad nano plan and why it matters The tablet industry will remain Apple's domain until someone else takes a few steps back and reinvents it. Product designers with aspirations to achieve that may need to look into a deep, deep pool for their inspiration, rather than cast their sleep-deprived eyes across a bowl of shallow water. Read More Michael Horowitz: iOS upgrade failure wipes out iPad Once upon a time, I owned a first generation iPad. Now, thanks to a bug in iTunes that caused an upgrade from iOS 4 to 5 to fail, all my apps and data are gone. What was an iPad is now a paper weight. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple's iPeople get world's largest iPhone arts exhibition The event might not appeal to crack-smoking lawyers, doesn't need a fingerprint scanner to get in and probably won't make it onto cable, but Apple watchers might be interested in yet another iPhone-driven example of cultural progression, the world's largest ever exhibition of art made on the device. Read More Richi Jennings: New iPhone 5 release date nears: More pictures leak As the New iPhone -- or iPhone 5 -- release date gets ever closer, the inevitable feature rumors get ever stronger. Bolstered by yet more pictures of Apple's (NASDA:AAPL) components, fanbois are in a frenzy of fanaticism. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers can't get enough of Apple rumors (and Apple is probably happy to silently oblige). Not to mention: Death by PowerPoint? Karaoke by Prezi!.. Read More Jonny Evans: 4 iPhone features I'd like to improve in iPhone 5 The iPhone isn't perfect. There's a range of low-level features which don't appear to have made it into iOS 6, some of which could make the best-selling single smartphone even more popular. Here's four little features I think the iPhone lacks: Read More
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