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	Apple to start selling new, pricier iMacs Friday Apple today announced that it will start selling its redesigned iMac desktop computers Friday, barely making a self-set deadline to ship some by the end of the month. Read More WEBCAST: VMware VMware Virtualization Accelerator Service Virtualizing your infrastructure for business-critical applications can significantly transform your business. The right services portfolio provides the critical path to this journey. View Now! In this Issue Fedora 18 Linux finally in beta Apple's iPhone 5 cleared for sale in China Jonny Evans: New iMac ships from November 30 as Apple faces display supply challenge Richi Jennings: Touchscreen Chrome OS hybrid tablet/laptop coming soon? Tablet trade-in drop hints at low iPad Mini cannibalization rate Amazon helps Kindle app developers with Maps API Apple gets sales ban on some Samsung Galaxy products in the Netherlands Mozilla ships Firefox 18 beta with faster JavaScript, Retina support iPad grabs top spot as preferred Black Friday shopping tool WHITE PAPER: Ping Identity Centralized Cloud Identity Management for Enterprise Now that employees are leaving the relative safety of the firewall to use online SaaS applications, enterprises need to adjust the way they manage employee identities. This White Paper from Ping Identity addresses why we need to centralize employees' IDs across applications. Read now Fedora 18 Linux finally in beta After a number of delays, the beta of the Fedora 18 Linux-based distribution has been released. Read More Apple's iPhone 5 cleared for sale in China Apple's iPhone 5 appears to have cleared the last hurdle in a series of Chinese regulatory checks, opening the way for the device to finally be sold in one of the company's largest markets. Read More Jonny Evans: New iMac ships from November 30 as Apple faces display supply challenge The post-Samsung Appe is closing in on resolving its display manufacturing as it reveals the new iMac range will be available from Friday, November 30 -- and you can forget the Apple television until the company's screen crisis is resolved... Read More Richi Jennings: Touchscreen Chrome OS hybrid tablet/laptop coming soon? Cloud touchscreen devices to change everything (again). Rumor has it that Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is building its own Chromebooks. They'll have touch displays, we're told. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers note that the old rules keep changing. Read More WEBCAST: VMware Trimming The Fat From Exchange Consolidation is top of mind for many IT managers, and a portly email infrastructure is a ripe target to put on a diet. View Now! Tablet trade-in drop hints at low iPad Mini cannibalization rate Tablet trade-in queries plummeted by 45% when Apple introduced its new iPad Mini, hinting that the smaller Apple device is not significantly cannibalizing sales of the larger tablet, an electronics recycling firm said. Read More Amazon helps Kindle app developers with Maps API Amazon.com has opened its Maps API to all Kindle developers, who can now use it to integrate maps in their applications for the Kindle Fire family of tablets. Read More Apple gets sales ban on some Samsung Galaxy products in the Netherlands A Dutch court has banned sales of Samsung Electronics' Galaxy products that infringe on an Apple patent describing a way to scroll through a photo gallery using a touchscreen. Read More Mozilla ships Firefox 18 beta with faster JavaScript, Retina support Mozilla yesterday released a first beta of its next browser, Firefox 18, touting a revamped JavaScript engine and support for Macs with Apple's higher-resolution 'Retina' displays. Read More iPad grabs top spot as preferred Black Friday shopping tool Apple retained its stranglehold on mobile shopping over the two-day stretch of Thanksgiving and Black Friday in the U.S., IBM said. Read More
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