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	Richi Jennings: iOS 7 'Innsbruck' copies... Windows Metro? Here's why fanbois may hate it... Sir Jony Ive 'invents' the Windows 8 UI. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is rumored to be readying a radical iOS 7 update. Well, radical if you've never seen Windows 8 or Windows Phone, that is. We're told that Ive's team has declared all-out war on skeudomorphism, creating a flat UI, like Windows Metro (oh, sorry, 'Modern UI'). But will existing iPhone and iPad users hate change, in the same way that WIndows 8 users miss the Start menu? In IT Blogwatch, your humble blogwatcher can't resist poking a little fun for your entertainment. Read More WHITE PAPER: Autonomy Guide to Virtual Server Protection Virtualization offers flexibility and efficiencies for IT operations but it creates new challenges to their data protection strategy. Read this white paper to see how HP Data Protector can resolve these challenges with a single-console data protection solution for both physical and virtual environments. Read Now! In this Issue Jonny Evans: When the going gets tough, the tough want iPhone Darlene Storm: Worried about Six Strikes? Copyright Alert System is 'damned hard to trigger' Preston Gralla: Windows Blue can't fix Windows 8's rotten apps problem Sharon Machlis: Facebook loses millions of users, Guardian claims. True? Jonny Evans: Google Now for iPhone, a symphony of Android fragmentation Sharon Machlis: Turn data into charts and dashboards with Jolicharts Jonny Evans: WWDC: iPhone 5S launch rumoured, OS improvements star the show Sharky: So many data centers, so little time WHITE PAPER: Autonomy Remove the Burden of Daily Backups Cloud data protection is widely used for physical data protection strategy; but it's benefit can be extended to virtual environment as well. Read this brief white paper to learn more about how cloud backup and recovery can further reduce cost and risks to your organization's critical data. Read Now! Jonny Evans: When the going gets tough, the tough want iPhone Samsung's Galaxy S4 sets a new standard for smartphone durability: it's more prone to damage than its predecessor, while the Apple iPhone is one tough cookie, SquareTrade claims -- and you don't take a Galaxy to a drop test. Read More Darlene Storm: Worried about Six Strikes? Copyright Alert System is 'damned hard to trigger' Worried about Six Strikes? Maybe you shouldn't be. After a test in which pirates tried to caught, the study found that the Copyright Alert System is 'damned hard to trigger.' Read More Preston Gralla: Windows Blue can't fix Windows 8's rotten apps problem Windows Blue may clean up some of Windows 8's rough edges, but it won't fix one of Windows 8's core problems: The apps it ships with are rotten. Read More Sharon Machlis: Facebook loses millions of users, Guardian claims. True? 'Independent data suggests' that Facebook is hemorrhaging, the story says. But the source of that data disagrees. Read More WHITE PAPER: QLogic Corporation Scalable Performance to Enterprise Applications The growing disparity between the performance of CPU-based and disk-based storage continues to grow. Applications that are Web 2.0, mission-critical, I/O intensive, virtualized, and clustered continue to put an additional burden on processors and slower storage, which lowers overall application performance. Read Now! Jonny Evans: Google Now for iPhone, a symphony of Android fragmentation So many people don't seem to understand the fragmentation divide between Apple and Android, but the introduction of Google Now for the iPhone is one of the better examples I've come across of the big difference between the two platforms. Read More Sharon Machlis: Turn data into charts and dashboards with Jolicharts This cloud service allows you to create and share visualization dashboards. Read More Jonny Evans: WWDC: iPhone 5S launch rumoured, OS improvements star the show WWDC will provide the first few glimpses at what Apple [AAPL] chief designer, Jony Ive, has been working on with iOS and OS X. Meanwhile a leaked KDDI document claims iPhone 5S pre-orders will be made available on June 20 with the device set to launch in Japan in July, a report claims. Read More Sharky: So many data centers, so little time IT service tech gets a late evening service call for a customer's office, but when he arrives he finds everything has been shut down for the night -- so he has the night watchman open the data center and power up the machines. Read More
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