iPhone 5 sales top 5M on opening weekend

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	iPhone 5 sales top 5M on opening weekend Apple today said it had sold more than 5 million iPhone 5 smartphones during the opening three-day weekend of sales, a 25% increase over last year's launch of the iPhone 4S. Read More WHITE PAPER: Argent What's the biggest bottleneck in VMware? Do more CPUs improve VMware?    Using VMware NIC Teaming?    Does TCP/IP affect VMware? (You'll be surprised)    Get this essential FREE white paper now     11 pages of technical details, not sales fluff     Click to continue In this Issue Mayer expected to lay out Yahoo's turnaround plan Tuesday Facebook denies reports of major privacy breach Microsoft's moves foreshadow price hike for Mac Office In early tests, iPhone 5 customers praise fast LTE wireless speeds Tweets run 2 to 1 for Google over Apple in iOS 6 map mess Toshiba new external drive: How small can it go? Barron's slams Facebook, stock plunges Iran blocks access to Gmail and Google, Internet users say Kenneth van Wyk: Shutting down security gotchas in iOS 6 Microsoft to make the case for new Exchange version IPv6 traffic rises in U.S., but remains sliver of overall Internet Sony to launch flat external batteries for phones, tablets using in-house tech Oracle releases free ADF Essentials SAP bundles analytic apps with IQ database JR Raphael: Samsung spills the beans on its Android 4.1 upgrade plans Patrick Thibodeau: Are data centers toxic? Preston Gralla: Report says Microsoft burned millions of watts of unnecessary power to avoid fines Jonny Evans: Apple sells 5 million iPhones as mapping services slowly improve RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! Mayer expected to lay out Yahoo's turnaround plan Tuesday Yahoo's new CEO, Marissa Mayer, is expected to unveil her plan to turn around the ailing Internet company on Tuesday. Read More Facebook denies reports of major privacy breach Facebook denied news reports of a major privacy breach involving users who saw their private messages from 2009 and before suddenly appearing on their viewable Timeline as messages posted by their friends. Read More Microsoft's moves foreshadow price hike for Mac Office Microsoft has announced price increases for its Windows Office suite of as much as 17%, but its plans for Office on the Mac remain a mystery. Read More In early tests, iPhone 5 customers praise fast LTE wireless speeds LTE data speeds with the new LTE-ready iPhone 5 are many times faster than speeds over older 3G networks, according to delighted users, who praised the data speeds on Monday. Read More Tweets run 2 to 1 for Google over Apple in iOS 6 map mess Consumers ranked Google Maps better than Apple's new homegrown mapping technology by more than 2 to 1 on Twitter, a social media analytics company said today. Read More Toshiba new external drive: How small can it go? Toshiba released what it said is its smallest external hard drive, the Canvio Slim, which comes with only USB 3.0 and not Thunderbolt. Read More Barron's slams Facebook, stock plunges Facebook's stock price took a quick tumble today, dropping by about 10% just after noon ET, triggering a short-sale circuit breaker on the Nasdaq exchange. Read More Iran blocks access to Gmail and Google, Internet users say The Iranian government appears to have blocked access to Google's search engine and Gmail webmail service from inside Iran, according to Internet users there. Read More Kenneth van Wyk: Shutting down security gotchas in iOS 6 What to do if you have data on your iPhone or other iOS device that you want to protect. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed VDI Performance: Conquer the Challenges, Reap the Benefits Join Tommy Walker, Lead Global Architect at VMware, and Eric Carter, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Riverbed Technology, as they discuss how to reap the advantages of VDI with LAN performance. Learn more. Microsoft to make the case for new Exchange version Microsoft will lay out the reasons it believes enterprises need to adopt the new version of its Exchange email server at a conference this week devoted to the product. Read More IPv6 traffic rises in U.S., but remains sliver of overall Internet U.S. ISPs are reporting a significant rise in IPv6 traffic during the last three months, even though the overall numbers remain tiny -- less than 1% of Internet traffic. Read More Sony to launch flat external batteries for phones, tablets using in-house tech Sony will launch a new line of small, flat, external batteries to provide extra juice for tablets and smartphones, the first such products to use its thin "laminate" technology, it said Monday. Read More Oracle releases free ADF Essentials In an effort to expand programmer awareness, Oracle has released a free version of its Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF). Read More SAP bundles analytic apps with IQ database SAP on Monday announced a new family of products that marry its Business Objects BI (business intelligence) software with the Sybase IQ analytic database and include specialized business content for use by various industries. Read More JR Raphael: Samsung spills the beans on its Android 4.1 upgrade plans Will your Samsung device get upgraded to Android 4.1, a.k.a. Jelly Bean? Grab your nearest lucky charm and click through to find out. Read More Patrick Thibodeau: Are data centers toxic? The New York Times is getting criticism over its data center series. Beginning the series with a 2006 anecdote about a near server meltdown at Facebook, three processor generations ago, was not an auspicious beginning. Read More Preston Gralla: Report says Microsoft burned millions of watts of unnecessary power to avoid fines Microsoft burned burned milllions of watts of electricity unnecessarily so it could avoid paying a fine for overestimating electricity use, according to the New York Times. The Times, which took an in-depth look at the company's data centers, reports other troubling issues, including a review under California's Air Toxics "Hot Spots" Program. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple sells 5 million iPhones as mapping services slowly improve Despite the absence of NFC, Apple sold five million units of the iPhone 5 in just three days, as pent-up demand is unleashed on Cupertino's smartphone, and is rapidly impementing user reports of inaccuracies within Maps. Read More
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