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	INSIDER Speed up mobile app-dev with back-end as a service Vendors offer code drop-ins that standardize common mobile features, including messaging and payment, so your in-house developers can focus on the functions that are most important to your business. Read More WHITE PAPER: Microsoft Corporation Smarter Business Requires Intelligent Systems This paper discusses the growing adoption of intelligent systems and the role Microsoft, through its Windows Embedded, Windows Azure, and other technologies, can play in developing these systems. Read Now. In this Issue Samsung denied new trial; Apple won't get more damages in patent suit Streaming video: RIM BlackBerry 10 Launch event (10 a.m. ET) Yahoo to focus on search -- and Google Hacktivist group suspends bank attacks INSIDER BaaS: It's a crowded (and young) market Three years later, has Oracle's Sun buy paid off? Apple gets trademark for retail store design and layout Lenovo earnings up 34%, smartphone business in China now profitable File-sharing site Mega fields 150 copyright infringement warnings Gartner: Social business efforts largely unsuccessful so far DOJ asks FCC to delay action on Sprint-Softbank deal Foursquare launches new mobile app for business owners Eric Berridge: To create personal customer connections, employees must be 'one with the technology' Darlene Storm: Unplug Universal Plug and Play: About 50 million devices may be vulnerable to attacks RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC Manage your data, not your storage At EMC Isilon, our mission is to enable customers to turn big data into unprecedented opportunity. Today, the challenge to effectively aggregate, store and leverage information into real-time insight has never been greater, but neither has the opportunity to maximize your data's value. And that's where EMC Isilon comes in. Click here to learn more. Samsung denied new trial; Apple won't get more damages in patent suit A court in California denied Samsung Electronics a retrial in a patent infringement dispute with Apple, and also declined to raise the damages earlier awarded to Apple by a jury. Read More Streaming video: RIM BlackBerry 10 Launch event (10 a.m. ET) Research In Motion's long-anticipated release of its BlackBerry 10 OS at 10 a.m. ET today could be a make or break moment for the company. Read More Yahoo to focus on search -- and Google Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer says the company plans on a big comeback in the Internet search business, which means directly taking on industry giant Google. Read More Hacktivist group suspends bank attacks A group claiming responsibility for a string of cyberattacks against several major U.S. banks over the past four months today said that it has suspended its campaign in response to YouTube's apparent removal of a controversial anti-Muslim video. Read More INSIDER BaaS: It's a crowded (and young) market Back-end as a service offers standard features to drop into your apps, so your developers can spend their time on the most strategic pieces. Read More Three years later, has Oracle's Sun buy paid off? Oracle may have had its hands full lately dealing with Java security issues, but the company's acquisition of Java founder Sun Microsystems three years ago this month still has paid off, company President Mark Hurd said. An investment research firm, though, still has listed Oracle's Sun acquisition as reason to sell off Oracle stock. Read More Apple gets trademark for retail store design and layout Apple has been granted a service mark in the U.S. for the design and layout of its retail store, reflecting the company's interest to protect the design of its popular stores from copycat retailers. Read More WEBCAST: CDW Corporation Asset and Lifecycle Management that Puts You in Control In this Webcast you will learn now to gain control by effectively deploying people, processes and tools. And you will learn how to face a software license audit successfully with asset and lifecycle management software that is comprehensive, accurate and easy to use. Learn More. Lenovo earnings up 34%, smartphone business in China now profitable Lenovo's profit for its fiscal third quarter grew by 34% from a year earlier, as the company also reported that its smartphone business in China had become profitable for the first time. Read More File-sharing site Mega fields 150 copyright infringement warnings The file-sharing service Mega has fielded 150 copyright warnings since its recent launch as founder Kim Dotcom grows a risky new business while under indictment by U.S. prosecutors for running Megaupload. Read More Gartner: Social business efforts largely unsuccessful so far Many large companies are embracing internal social networks, but for the most part, they're not getting much good from them, according to analyst firm Gartner. Read More DOJ asks FCC to delay action on Sprint-Softbank deal The U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security have asked for more time to consider Softbank's proposed takeover of Sprint Nextel, a move that may signal a rough road ahead for the US$20 billion deal. Read More Foursquare launches new mobile app for business owners Foursquare has launched a new mobile app aimed at making it easier for the 1 million business owners using the service to connect and share news with customers. Read More Eric Berridge: To create personal customer connections, employees must be 'one with the technology' Technology can make your customers love you or hate you. To ensure the former, consider a 2:1 investment of people vs. technology. Read More Darlene Storm: Unplug Universal Plug and Play: About 50 million devices may be vulnerable to attacks Rapid7 researchers warn that about "40-50 million network-enabled devices are at risk due to vulnerabilities found in the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol." Rapid7 has released a whitepaper regarding these vulnerabilities, three lists of vulnerable products, a free ScanNow tool and a Metasploit module. CERT also issued a UPnP vulnerablity note with solutions, including: "Consider disabling UPnP on the device if it is not absolutely necessary." Read More
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