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	Analyst: Half of iPad Mini sales will be cannibalizations Apple's lower-priced iPad Mini will significantly cannibalize sales of the company's full-sized iPad, with up to half of customers opting for the smaller tablet, an analyst argued today. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC IT's Next Transformation To remain competitive organizations need to manage the relationship between IT and the business. Megatrends like virtualization, consumerization, cloud computing, and mobility are forcing a new model for operating IT. Read the interactive guide to learn more. In this Issue Top Apple iOS and retail executives to leave company Analysts praise Apple's exec overhaul, see hints of future sea changes Apple offers up to $1 per device for Motorola Mobility patents Facebook, others back Linaro's Linux-on-ARM project Richi Jennings: Build your own Apple Fusion Drive; No need to pay 3x the price What Apple's executive reshuffle means for the products you use California notifies app developers of privacy law non-compliance Google unveils free Siri rival for iPhone, iPad TI and AllGo offer reference design for a $70 Android 4.0 tablet WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Accelerating Cloud Performance with WAN Optimization Today's smart CIOs are assessing their workloads against business needs and analyzing where each should run—locally or in the public cloud. Read on to learn about the benefits of cloud computing, and why its success or failure is often dependent on WAN optimization. Learn more. Top Apple iOS and retail executives to leave company Two of Apple's top executives are leaving the company: Scott Forstall, who has overseen the iOS platform that runs the iPhone and iPad, will leave Apple next year, and John Browett, senior vice president of retail, is leaving sooner, Apple said Monday. Read More Analysts praise Apple's exec overhaul, see hints of future sea changes Apple's executive shake-up this week is a sign that design is the 'tip of the spear' for the company, but the reorganization won't disrupt the firm's product delivery and may produce groundbreaking moves, analysts said today. Read More Apple offers up to $1 per device for Motorola Mobility patents Apple has offered to pay Google's Motorola Mobility unit up to one dollar per device for a license to its patents covering cellular and Wi-Fi technologies. Read More Facebook, others back Linaro's Linux-on-ARM project Facebook, Red Hat, Hewlett-Packard and other big vendors have joined a project to develop Linux OS software for the upcoming generation of ARM-based servers, the companies announced Thursday. Read More WEBCAST: IBM How to Take Business Analytics to the Next Level By viewing this webcast you will learn how you can implement an effective BA strategy that will deliver maximum strategic value to your company. View Now Richi Jennings: Build your own Apple Fusion Drive; No need to pay 3x the price Yes, with just a tiny bit of typing, you can make a DIY Fusion Drive, using a regular SSD. A Mac developer, Patrick Stein—a/k/a jollyjinx—wants us to know that you don't have to buy a Fusion Drive at Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) eyewatering prices, and that you can have it on older Macs. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers fire up the command line. Read More What Apple's executive reshuffle means for the products you use After Steve Jobs's death, many described Apple the company as his most enduring "product." This reorganization suggests that Cook has taken that to heart while simultaneously putting his own definitive stamp on it. Read More California notifies app developers of privacy law non-compliance Notices will be sent out to developers of up to 100 mobile apps that are not compliant with California privacy law, starting with those who have the most popular apps available on mobile platforms, the office of the state's attorney general Kamala D. Harris said Tuesday. Read More Google unveils free Siri rival for iPhone, iPad Google on Tuesday upgraded its Google Search app for the iPhone and iPad, providing a a voice search functionality that could pose a challenge to Apple's Siri. Read More TI and AllGo offer reference design for a $70 Android 4.0 tablet Texas Instruments has partnered with AllGo Embedded Systems to announce a reference design that will allow Android 4.0 tablets to be built for under $70, the companies announced. Read More
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