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	Review: Apple's iPhone 5 destined for success With the iPhone 5, Apple has again delivered something worthy of the iconic iPhone name and legacy, says columnist Michael deAgonia. 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 Mass riot erupts at Foxconn factory in China JR Raphael: Samsung spills the beans on its Android 4.1 upgrade plans Valerie Potter: In search of a grown-up laptop bag Sony to launch flat external batteries for phones, tablets using in-house tech Shark Tank: Just like the instructions said Android tethering apps: 6 excellent options iPhone 5 sales top 5M on opening weekend INSIDER Scot Finnie: What needs to change in the mobile market Are you being watched ... by your phone? Sharky: You should see what a "more critical" issue looks like Nokia calls new HTC smartphones 'good news for Windows Phone' Oracle releases free ADF Essentials 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! Mass riot erupts at Foxconn factory in China Apple supplier Foxconn said an "incident" involving 2,000 workers erupted late Sunday night near a company manufacturing facility in China, as photos posted online showed cars turned over and store windows broken in what appeared to be a mass riot. 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 for the answer. 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 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 Shark Tank: 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. Read More 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 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! 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 INSIDER Scot Finnie: What needs to change in the mobile market It's a dysfunctional industry reliant on a triad of supporting companies with their own priorities. Insider (registration required) Read More Are you being watched ... by your phone? If you're paranoid that your phone is spying on you, don't watch Person of Interest, which highlights the many ways to hack, track, listen in on and use smartphones to monitor people, says Mike Elgan. Read More Sharky: You should see what a "more critical" issue looks like This IT pilot fish is the most junior engineer on a big staff, so he gets handed a lot of "less critical" issues -- like setting up a long-overdue network monitoring system and installing UPS network management cards. 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 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
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