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	Windows 8 migrations manageable, argues support firm Windows 8 may be the most disruptive operating system upgrade in 17 years, but the learning curve isn't as steep as some have claimed, enterprise support company PC Helps said today. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Amazon Web Services Become a Cloud expert at AWS re: Invent Amazon Web Services invites you to AWS re:Invent, our first global customer and partner conference. Hear how companies are migrating their IT applications to the Cloud. Learn best practices for managing security, monitoring your resources, optimizing performance, and cutting costs. Get your questions answered by AWS experts to help you get started. Register today for AWS re: Invent, the largest gathering ever of the AWS community. In this Issue Samsung to fight Apple's effort to ban sales of its smartphone Inoperable Apple 1 may fetch $126K at Christie's auction LG launches Optimus G LTE smartphone with a quad-core chip INSIDER Leigh Jasper: Leapfrogging landlines and the evolution of collaboration Kindle-exclusive e-books get lots of business Samsung set to show Series 5 Hybrid PC tablet prior to IFA Cisco survey: U.S. users want video calling interoperability Lexmark to exit inkjet printer business, lay off 1,700 Jonny Evans: Apple management: Where are the female leaders at the iPhone company? Preston Gralla: Samsung weighs in on Windows 8: Users need the Start button Darlene Storm: Hacking the mind: 3 new brain hacks expose new realm of security & privacy risks 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. Samsung to fight Apple's effort to ban sales of its smartphone Samsung said Tuesday it will "take all necessary measures" to keep its products on sale in the U.S. Read More Inoperable Apple 1 may fetch $126K at Christie's auction Christie's will auction off an Apple 1 computer from the firm's first batch, and predicted the machine will sell for as much as $126,000 when it hits the block in October. Read More LG launches Optimus G LTE smartphone with a quad-core chip LG Electronics has launched an LTE smartphone with a quad-core processor, the Optimus G, which it hopes will set it apart from the competition as the smartphone market starts to ramp up for the holiday season. Read More INSIDER Leigh Jasper: Leapfrogging landlines and the evolution of collaboration In the same way that mobile technology has enabled countries to skip the costly and complex deployment of copper, easy-to-deploy-and-use SaaS-based tools are enabling companies to benefit from the latest collaboration technology without all the pain of an old-style on-premise software deployment. Read More Kindle-exclusive e-books get lots of business Kindle-exclusive books have been purchased, downloaded or borrowed more than 100 million times, Amazon announced Tuesday. Read More WEBCAST: VCE Boosting Asset Utilization of Vblock Customers This webcast will highlight detailed results from a recent IDC study, sponsored by VCE, of five organizations that have implemented Vblock Systems, and seen dramatic cost savings, vast improvement in deployment times, and reduction in downtime. Learn more. Samsung set to show Series 5 Hybrid PC tablet prior to IFA Samsung is expected to show off its Intel-based Series 5 Hybrid PC tablet running Windows prior to the start of the IFA trade show in Berlin this week. Read More Cisco survey: U.S. users want video calling interoperability Most U.S. residents want the ability to place video calls to people using a different service provider, even though consumer video-calling services are now locked behind proprietary walls, according to a survey released Tuesday by Cisco Systems. Read More Lexmark to exit inkjet printer business, lay off 1,700 Lexmark International has exited the inkjet printer business and is laying off 1,700 people as part of a restructuring plan to improve profitability. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple management: Where are the female leaders at the iPhone company? Apple promoted two new faces to its executive team yesterday, raising the team to twelve, but one thing rings false: there isn't a single female face among the company's senior vice presidents, so is the world's most valuable company really a boy's club? Read More Preston Gralla: Samsung weighs in on Windows 8: Users need the Start button Microsoft may believe that users don't want a Start button in Windows 8, but at least one big PC vendor disagrees. Samsung just showed off three Windows 8 desktops that will be available this fall, and they all sport an optional Start button. Read More Darlene Storm: Hacking the mind: 3 new brain hacks expose new realm of security & privacy risks Brain hacking is a hot subject right now. Be it cool or somewhat creepy,hacking the mind opens the door to a new realm of security as well as a new realm of security and privacy risks. Read More
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