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	Apple struts lighter, faster, bigger iPhone 5 Apple CEO Tim Cook and other company executives today unveiled the iPhone 5, a faster, slimmer upgrade that for the first time in the five-year history of the smartphone, boasts a larger screen of 4 inches. Read More 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 > In this Issue Short Take: Is iPhone 5 a game-changer? Apple drains iPhone 5 pre-order supplies in an hour iPhone 5 sets sales record with 2 million on first day, says Apple AT&T, Verizon now out of iPhone 5, too The iPhone 5 at work -- How companies should prepare iPhone 5: The details in pictures The iPhone Apple was forced to make iPhone 5 in the enterprise: Pain or gain? iPhone 5: Why no NFC? iPhone 5's lack of NFC doesn't matter, survey shows Why no wireless charging in the iPhone 5? iPhone trade-in prices start to slip after iPhone 5 unveiling Apple's iPhone: The untold story Apple keeps top spot in customer satisfaction Is Apple lost without Steve Jobs? Jonny Evans: How Samsung is winning the anti-Apple iPhone wars Jonny Evans: Apple iPhone 5 pre-orders sell up within an hour, ship dates begin to slip Matt Hamblen: Damned Lightning Adapter for iPhone 5 unlikely to darken Apple's angelic brand Jonny Evans: Coming soon: Apple's iPad nano production has begun RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hortonworks Live Webinar Series: The Future of Apache Hadoop Hadoop has evolved rapidly to become the leading platform for managing, processing and analyzing big data. Join us in this 4-part series with the core committers of the Apache Hadoop projects to gain insight into Pig, Ambari, Zookeeper and YARN. Learn use-cases and best practices on how to get started with Hadoop and live Q&A. Register now! Short Take: Is iPhone 5 a game-changer? Keith Shaw and Ken Mingis discuss the features of Apple's iPhone 5 smartphone, and whether the larger screen, 4G LTE network and other features will excite the legions of Apple fans. Read More Apple drains iPhone 5 pre-order supplies in an hour Apple today exhausted its supply of the iPhone 5 within an hour of opening its online store for pre-orders, and now is telling customers that their orders won't ship for two weeks. Read More iPhone 5 sets sales record with 2 million on first day, says Apple Apple today announced that it had sold two million iPhone 5 smartphones in the first 24 hours of pre-orders last week, more than double the previous record set in 2011. Read More AT&T, Verizon now out of iPhone 5, too AT&T and Verizon today emptied their iPhone 5 pre-order inventories, and now show delivery dates as far out as three weeks. Read More The iPhone 5 at work -- How companies should prepare With the iPhone 5 slated to ship Sept. 21, the big question for business users and IT pros is how it and iOS 6 will affect them and their companies. Columnist Ryan Faas has some answers. Read More iPhone 5: The details in pictures Apple iPhone 5 is longer and thinner, more powerful, and boasts LTE. Get a close-up look at the new hardware and features Read More The iPhone Apple was forced to make I have no doubt that the iPhone 5 is a great phone and will set sales records. It's just uninteresting. So uninteresting, in fact, that it's interesting. Read More iPhone 5 in the enterprise: Pain or gain? If the new iPhone 5 with LTE wireless sells as well as analysts predict, its impact on IT shops already wrestling with the Bring-Your-Own-Device trend could be dramatic. Read More iPhone 5: Why no NFC? Apple left out near-field communication technology in the new iPhone 5, a decision that one NFC backer said could be Apple's loss. But several mobile payment experts said Apple was right to wait, given the slow rollout of NFC, especially in the U.S. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: DameWare, part of the SolarWinds Family Support thousands of users without leaving your desk! 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So while its new, smaller connector marks a demarcation from what it used over the past 10 years, it goes in a different direction from what other mobile products coming out today offer. Read More iPhone trade-in prices start to slip after iPhone 5 unveiling Used iPhone values dropped as much as 8% at several trade-in firms after Apple announced the new iPhone 5 and cut prices for two older models on Wednesday. Read More Apple's iPhone: The untold story Apple is one of the most secretive companies on the planet, so the Apple-Samsung trial was fascinating in that it lifted the veil of secrecy that typically shrouds Apple's operations. From marketing budgets to photos of never-before-seen iPhone prototypes, the evidence introduced at trial gave the world an unprecedented glimpse into the inner workings of Apple. Read More Apple keeps top spot in customer satisfaction Apple retained the top spot in a survey released Tuesday by the American Consumer Satisfaction Index, which also found that the tablet market is spurring PC makers to improve the quality of their products. Read More Is Apple lost without Steve Jobs? Apple announced a lineup of great products this week, but there was something conspicuously missing. The big announcement revealed that Apple without Steve Jobs is a different company. Read More Jonny Evans: How Samsung is winning the anti-Apple iPhone wars With two million pre-orders for the iPhone already, Apple [AAPL] seems on target to deliver the biggest-selling consumer electronics device since the last product from the company, though this achievement is clouded by the legal battles surrounding the smartphone race: and it's Samsung, not Apple, which is gaining the most from the litigation. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple iPhone 5 pre-orders sell up within an hour, ship dates begin to slip Well, that didn't take long. Apple [AAPL] offered the iPhone 5 up for pre-order at 12.01am PDT this morning, or 8.01am UK time -- and initial stocks were quickly sucked up by a smartphone hungry public as the company begins what some expect will be the: "Biggest consumer electronics product launch of all time." Read More Matt Hamblen: Damned Lightning Adapter for iPhone 5 unlikely to darken Apple's angelic brand Contrast Apple's inspired marketing with its dratted $29 Lightning adapter. This is one interesting company. Read More Jonny Evans: Coming soon: Apple's iPad nano production has begun The Apple [AAPL] fightback is in full swing this season as the company makes a series of big moves to see off its imitative competitors. The iPhone 5 hits retailers this Friday, but even as it does Tim Cook's firm's swinging the follow-up punch -- the 7-inch iPad mini/nano, production of which has already begun. Read More
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