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	Cybercriminals plot massive banking Trojan attack An international gang of cyber crooks is plotting a major campaign to steal money from the online accounts of thousands of consumers at 30 or more major U.S. banks, security firm RSA warned. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: BYOD & Mobile Device Management Tech Seminar Final Days to Register! BYOD & Mobility Management Seminar Attend and learn how to use your organization's appetite for risk as the foundation of your enterprise mobility management policy. BYOD & Mobility Management Tech Seminar – 10/16 – Denver Click to continue In this Issue Foxconn workers strike over iPhone 5 production, labor group says Sprint's LTE coverage found lacking in four cities NASA rover Curiosity gets first scoop on Mars Apple CEO Cook remembers Steve Jobs 10 Apple moments in the year since Jobs' death Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 to start at $629 NASA, Pentagon hacker TinKode gets two-year suspended sentence Adoption of augmented reality accelerates Sprint considering outbidding T-Mobile for MetroPCS, reports say Judge wants input over fate of orphaned Megaupload data Swedish websites down after Anonymous threats Jonny Evans: Steve Wozniak wants Apple to launch iTunes for Android phones Susan Feinberg: Black hats, white hats and corporate banking Preston Gralla: Microsoft will update Windows 8 apps before launch. Let's hope they'll actually become useful. 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The rover is slated to scoop up its first sample of Martian soil on Saturday. Read More Apple CEO Cook remembers Steve Jobs Apple CEO Tim Cook remembered Steve Jobs in a short letter posted on the front page of the company's website Friday, saying the company will continue to create products that people love, much like the maverick technology icon who was considered a creative genius. Read More 10 Apple moments in the year since Jobs' death It's been a busy, bumpy year for Apple since Steve Jobs died last Oct 5. The company won a massive jury award against Samsung for patent infringement and in April it became arguably the most valuable company in history when its market capitalization passed $600 billion. Read More Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 to start at $629 Lenovo's highly anticipated ThinkPad Tablet 2 with Windows 8 will be priced from $629, the company said. Read More NASA, Pentagon hacker TinKode gets two-year suspended sentence Romanian national Manole RAzvan CernAianu, known online as TinKode, received a two-year suspended prison sentence for hacking into computer systems owned by Oracle, NASA, the U.S. Army and the U.S. Department of Defense and was ordered to pay damages totalling more than US$120,000. Read More WEBCAST: Oracle Optimizing Data Center Infrastructure IDC's proven ROI methodology makes the business case, with quantifiable financial benefits, to refresh data center systems infrastructure. Learn more Adoption of augmented reality accelerates Google-owned Motorola Mobility's acquisition of Viewdle this week, a jump in the number of visitors to the insideAR conference and Nokia's recent launch of the City Lens application all illustrate growing interest in augmented reality. Read More Sprint considering outbidding T-Mobile for MetroPCS, reports say Board members at Sprint Nextel are expected to discuss whether to pursue a merger with rival mobile carrier MetroPCS during a meeting Friday. Read More Judge wants input over fate of orphaned Megaupload data A U.S. federal judge has asked for more information to plan an evidentiary hearing concerning the fate of terabytes of data held in limbo since the shutdown of the Megaupload file-sharing site. Read More Swedish websites down after Anonymous threats A handful of Swedish websites remained down Friday evening there after hacking group Anonymous threatened earlier this week to attack the nation for a police raid on a hosting service that was once home to The Pirate Bay. Read More Jonny Evans: Steve Wozniak wants Apple to launch iTunes for Android phones Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak, thinks the company should make a version of iTunes for Android devices. He thinks it would be a good way to put a little of the Apple experience inside the Google OS. I agree with him. Read More Susan Feinberg: Black hats, white hats and corporate banking Online treasury management solutions are not as secure as once thought. With various authenticating methods having been compromised in the past few years, these solutions are popular targets for cybercriminals looking to pocket fraudulent payments. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft will update Windows 8 apps before launch. Let's hope they'll actually become useful. Microsoft yesterday announced that it will be updating some Windows 8 apps before the official launch of Windows 8. I only hope that they're more than minor, cosmetic changes, because some important Windows 8 apps are now so underpowered as to be nearly useless. Read More
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