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	JR Raphael: How free Google services can help shrink your phone bill Want a simple way to shrink your smartphone costs? Some free Google services can help do the trick -- if you know how to harness their power. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T VoIP Solutions Provide Enterprises With Various Benefits VoIP migration is a top telecom priority for many North American enterprises. Do you know why? Find out in this Forrester study, which reveals the opinions of telecommunications decision-makers like you. Read the report. In this Issue Richi Jennings: Apple v. Samsung: Judge Koh said to have ''abused discretion'' Preston Gralla: Can a $1.5 billion marketing campaign convince people to buy Windows 8? Jonny Evans: Apple iPhone 5 demand sets records, consumers unconcerned by Maps -- Changewave Vineet Jain: Taking a page from the ferocious honey badger ... the enterprise kicks some ... Shark Tank: Whose fault is it anyway? 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! Richi Jennings: Apple v. Samsung: Judge Koh said to have ''abused discretion'' The reversal by a U.S. appeals court of Apple's Samsung Galaxy Nexus ban has caused ruffled feathers, to put it mildly. Those on both sides of the argument are venting their points of view with gusto. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers point accusatory fingers at Judge Lucy Koh (pictured). Read More Preston Gralla: Can a $1.5 billion marketing campaign convince people to buy Windows 8? Forbes reports that Microsoft is prepared to unleash a massive marketing launch for Windows 8 of between $1.5 and $1.8 billion. That's more than either presidential candidate will spend. Will all that money be enough to make Windows 8 a hit? 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. Jonny Evans: Apple iPhone 5 demand sets records, consumers unconcerned by Maps -- Changewave Apple's Maps app has generated yards of criticism as competitors celebrate, Lord of the Flies style, at the iPhone 5's cartographic calumny, but despite the predictable hoop-la of media attention, for most people "Map-gate" really doesn't mean a thing: neither Maps nor the new Lightning connector have dampened enthusiasm meaning there's more demand for Cupertino's latest smartphone than for any previous edition. Read More Vineet Jain: Taking a page from the ferocious honey badger ... the enterprise kicks some ... So now that we've restored the enterprise to its rightful place as the scrappy, menacing animal able to come back from being bitten by even a cobra, where will it be going? Read More Shark Tank: Whose fault is it anyway? This employee gets a transfer to a new department, and a pilot fish dutifully makes all the necessary changes in permissions. But when she tries to do her new job, she can't -- and all eyes turn to fish. Read More
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