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	Sprint confirms it is in talks with Japanese carrier Softbank If Japan's third-largest wireless carrier Softbank negotiates successfully to buy a majority interest in Sprint, the deal could be a good fit for their technologies and attention to customer service, analysts said. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Sybase Mobile device management FREE trial. Try SAP® Afaria FREE for 14 days and see how easy it can be to bring consumer-like mobility to your enterprise. Offering simple, secure access to data and apps from both personal and corporate devices—such as iPhone and iPad to Blackberry and Android—SAP Afaria can help increase employee productivity and simplify device management. See how you can enroll mobile devices quickly, and manage them securely and cost effectively. Get started with a 14-day test-drive of SAP Afaria. Sign up now! In this Issue Is LG making next Nexus smartphone? RIM CIO works the enterprise ranks of BlackBerry AMD finally makes tablet chip, the dual-core Hondo Lenovo announces new Windows 8, RT hybrid laptop/tablet devices Verizon to reach 417 cities with LTE next week First look: HTC One X+ shines New Arm chip technologies could help mobile networks keep up Sprint still sees demand for phones with qwerty keyboards Up close: BlackBerry 10 on Dev Alpha B Enterprise IT now competing with apps stores, mobile devices JR Raphael: Android off-contract: My prepaid journey, 3 months later Microsoft says Motorola Android phones infringe its mapping patent Preston Gralla: At $400 to $500, Surface RT tablets won't overtake the iPad Amid iPad mini rumors, Sharp to launch first phone with IGZO screen New Acer Windows 8 tablet matches iPad's $499 starting price 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. 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Read More Verizon to reach 417 cities with LTE next week Verizon Wireless said it will launch faster LTE wireless service in 21 cities on Oct. 18, reaching a total of 417 markets two months ahead of schedule. Read More First look: HTC One X+ shines HTC's One X+ could be the sort of flagship phone that helps the Taiwan-based phone maker reverse its recent financial misfortunes. Read More New Arm chip technologies could help mobile networks keep up Emerging chip technologies that Arm Holdings announced on Wednesday could help to power mobile networks that are being asked to handle more traffic with more fine-tuned controls. Read More WEBCAST: VCE Boosting Asset Utilization of Vblock Customers This webcast will highlight detailed results from a recent IDC study, sponsored by VCE, of five organizations that have implemented Vblock Systems, and seen dramatic cost savings, vast improvement in deployment times, and reduction in downtime. Learn more. Sprint still sees demand for phones with qwerty keyboards Sprint said it plans to sell the LG Mach smartphone over 4G LTE this fall, adding a second slider-style smartphone with a physical qwerty keyboard. Read More Up close: BlackBerry 10 on Dev Alpha B BlackBerry 10 will offer smartphone users some novel features when it finally ships next year, including text prediction software and BlackBerry Balance, an approach that separates work from personal data. Read More Enterprise IT now competing with apps stores, mobile devices Enterprises will either embrace a mobile device strategy that allows workers to do their job securely, or those workers will do an end-run around IT staffers, according to experts at a consumerization-of-IT conference. Read More JR Raphael: Android off-contract: My prepaid journey, 3 months later It's been nearly three months since I ditched Verizon and moved to a prepaid smartphone setup, and let me tell you: Life is good outside of the carriers' chains. Read More Microsoft says Motorola Android phones infringe its mapping patent Microsoft is suing Motorola Mobility in Germany over a mapping patent that Microsoft alleges covers the Google Maps app that ships on Motorola phones. Read More Preston Gralla: At $400 to $500, Surface RT tablets won't overtake the iPad Microsoft is betting the farm that its Windows RT tablets will help eat into the iPad's dominant market share. But an analyst estimates that Microsoft's Surface RT tablets will likely cost essentially the same as the iPad and upcoming iPad mini, at $399 to $499. At that price, it's not likely they'll make many inroads. Read More Amid iPad mini rumors, Sharp to launch first phone with IGZO screen Sharp said it will soon launch a smartphone with its new IGZO display, a power-efficient technology that allows the device to last two days on a single charge and that is rumored to be Apple's choice for its upcoming tablets. 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