Apple's iPhone 5 -- the global launch in real-time

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	Apple's iPhone 5 -- the global launch in real-time Apple's iPhone 5 arrives Friday, and buyers lined up to purchase the smartphone before stories opened. Here's a real-time look at what's happening worldwide by IDG News Service reporters in Australia, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, France, Germany, the U.K. and the U.S. 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. 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Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! Android tethering apps: 6 excellent options Want to use your Android phone to get your tablet or PC online? Here are five apps that'll let you share your data connection in no time. Read More BlackBerry service failure hits Europe one year after major outage Research in Motion's BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa are experiencing service problems, and RIM said in a statement that it is working to resolve the problem. Read More U.S. banks on high alert against cyberattacks The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center has put U.S. banks on high alert against cyberattackers seeking to steal employee network login credentials to conduct extensive wire transfer fraud. Read More Republican STEM visa bill fails A Republican-led effort to issue up to 55,000 STEM visas a year to students who earn advanced degrees at U.S. universities was defeated Thursday in a House vote. Read More iOS 6 device management: What companies should know Apple is clearly making it easy for businesses and IT departments to secure new iOS 6 features and is ramping up devise security in several ways. Columnist Ryan Faas offers an overview of what's new. Read More Big Data brings big academic opportunities Colleges and universities are moving swiftly to create advance degree programs in analytics to manage Big Data. Read More Nokia calls new HTC smartphones 'good news for Windows Phone' Nokia might not be the favored vendor du jour of a Windows Phone 8 smartphone, but the Finnish cell-phone maker nonetheless issued a diplomatically worded statement in response to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's praise for HTC's 8X and 8S devices announced Wednesday. Read More WEBCAST: Cloudera Modernizing Your IT Infrastructure This webinar will speak to businesses expectations of big data, benefits of analytic platforms built on Hadoop, business challenges that led to evaluation of big data technologies, and the framework for success. View Now! Oracle Q1 profit up 11%, but hardware products revenue drops 24% Oracle on Thursday reported that net income rose 11% to $2 billion while revenue fell 2% to $8.2 billion in the first quarter ended Aug. 31, with the period marked by some strength in software but falling hardware revenues. Read More iPhone 5 thieves break into mobile shops in Japan hours before launch Thieves broke into a number of mobile phone shops across central Japan and stole hundreds of iPhone 5 handsets hours before the device went on sale Friday morning, police said. Read More Australia kicks off launch of Apple's iPhone 5 The global launch of Apple's iPhone 5 began early Friday morning in Australia when stores in the country opened their doors at 8 a.m. The phone has attracted massive attention from consumers, and some analysts expect it to be Apple's biggest phone launch ever. Read More AU Optronics fined $500 million for LCD price-fixing AU Optronics was fined $500 million by a San Francisco court on Thursday, and two of its former executives were sentenced to serve three-year prison terms and pay fines in connection with a LCD price-fixing conspiracy, the Department of Justice said. Read More Valerie Potter: In search of a grown-up laptop bag Looking for something more elegant than my cheap backpack, I test-drive two high-end laptop bags from Knomo: the Aurora tote and the Saxby messenger bag. Do they provide the combination of style, quality and functionality I need? Read More Senator: Microsoft, HP using gimmicks to dodge US taxes Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard are using "loopholes and gimmicks" to avoid paying millions of dollars in U.S. taxes, the chairman of a U.S. Senate subcommittee said Thursday. Read More Vatican launches social network challenge to Facebook An Italian startup backed by the Vatican launched a global portal for Catholic websites intended to provide reliable information for people seeking the truth about the Christian religion. Read More Richi Jennings: Unwired Planet sues Apple, Google over 20 patents: OpenWave/phone.com zombie roams Nevada Mobility pioneer Unwired Planet is suing Apple and Google over 10 patents each. The company, formerly known as phone.com, OpenWave, and Libris, says it invented much of the mobile technology that we now take for granted. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ask: Patent troll or legitimate innovator? Read More
	SHARK TANK OF THE DAY Just like the instructions said Employee who works in a remote office has his company iPhone replaced at the local store for the mobile carrier, then calls this IT pilot fish at HQ with a problem: The new phone won't accept his password. CAST YOUR VOTE IN THIS WEEK'S QUICKPOLL Apple's iPhone 5 smartphone will feature a larger screen, 4G LTE network and iOS update. Is the iPhone 5 likely to shake up the smartphone market? COMPUTERWORLD'S IT SALARY SURVEY 2012 A majority of IT workers say they're under pressure to increase productivity and take on new tasks. But the vast majority are still happy they picked IT as their career. NEW COMPUTERWORLD JOB BOARD Search multiple listings now and get new job alerts as they are posted.
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