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	T-Mobile-MetroPCS deal would expand LTE, no-contract services T-Mobile USA's planned merger with MetroPCS promises to create the "leading value" wireless carrier in the U.S., officials from both companies said. 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 iPad Mini's likely launch date means inventory will be everything, say analysts AT&T gets Nokia Lumia 920 for LTE exclusively Reports of a Microsoft-made Surface smartphone resurface LTE patent pool brings together technologies from AT&T, ZTE, HP and others Lenovo to open first U.S. manufacturing plant in N.C. 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Read the report. iPad Mini's likely launch date means inventory will be everything, say analysts Apple's rumored November launch of a smaller, less-expensive iPad will put the company in a tight spot -- tighter than usual -- if it's not able to build up and maintain adequate supplies through the holiday season, analysts said today. Read More AT&T gets Nokia Lumia 920 for LTE exclusively AT&T disclosed that it will sell the Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 smartphones for its 4G LTE networks sometime in November, along with other Windows Phone 8-based devices. Read More Reports of a Microsoft-made Surface smartphone resurface Reports that Microsoft could launch its own Surface smartphone next year have surfaced again, leading some tech experts to wonder why the company would do so. Read More LTE patent pool brings together technologies from AT&T, ZTE, HP and others Hewlett-Packard, ZTE and mobile operators such as AT&T and SK Telecom have pooled their LTE patents under a program led by Via Licensing, aiming to provide a one-stop shop for companies to license their technology. Read More Lenovo to open first U.S. manufacturing plant in N.C. Lenovo said it will open its first computer manufacturing plant in the U.S., where it will make laptops, PCs and tablets sold under its Think brand. Read More Cell phone location data not private, Feds argue Individuals have no reasonable expectation of privacy in historical cell phone location data collected by phone companies, a federal prosecutor said in oral arguments Monday before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Read More WEBCAST: HP Intel VMware A Lower Entry Cost for Desktop Virtualization High entry costs and overall complexity have prevented many SMBs from taking advantage of the benefits of client virtualization. Now HP and VMware have teamed to bring desktop virtualization that delivers results right out of the box. Learn More PlayBook OS 2.1 update boosts security, management Research in Motion released a BlackBerry PlayBook OS update that adds full device encryption to secure personal data stored on the device to go along with the already-available encryption for corporate data. Read More Samsung Galaxy S III display outdoes iPhone 5's, teardown reveals Samsung Galaxy S III's display is thinner and has a greater range of colors than that of the Apple iPhone 5, an IHS iSuppli teardown analysis revealed. Read More Web pages load 9% faster over LTE on Galaxy S III than iPhone 5 The Samsung Galaxy S III loads Web pages 9% faster over LTE wireless than Apple's new iPhone 5, according to tests by Strangeloop Networks, a vendor of network optimization software. Read More HTC upgrades One X smartphone with faster processor, more storage HTC has upgraded its flagship smartphone, the One X, with a faster processor, twice the integrated storage capacity and a bigger battery. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple iPhone call for talent as TSMC grabs Samsung's chip supply deal Apple has introduced the iPhone 5 and is preparing to unwrap its iPad mini, but the company is also putting together the pieces for its next-generation mobile processors while plotting a course to dump arch rival Samsung from its supply chain. Read More Tiny sensor allows gesture control of tablets, phones Japan's Murata Manufacturing has developed a tiny sensor that, if embedded in a computer or tablet device, allows the user to swipe and zoom without touching the display panel. Read More JR Raphael: Android upgrade report card: Who failed in Q3? Android manufacturers love to make upgrade promises, but how many of them actually follow through? The latest grades are in -- and they aren't all good news. Read More
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