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	Apple breaks into Fortune 500's top 10 Apple climbed the Fortune 500 this year to the No. 6 spot, its highest-ever ranking, its first time in the top 10, and the top technology company on the influential list, replacing sagging HP. Read More WHITE PAPER: VMware, Cisco and NetApp Meritrust Sees Results with FlexPod and VMware Faced with an aging physical IT infrastructure, Meritrust Credit Union sought a more stable foundation for its business critical applications and for its Oracle database, which is central to its operations. Read Now! In this Issue Apple hijacks OS X devs to keep iOS on track Think different: Apple's $17B debt offers stark contrast to 1996's junk bonds Want the best tech support? Buy a Mac, says Consumer Reports Rare working Apple-1 computer to hit auction block this month Slideshow: 9 technologies that were ahead of their time Think tablets are popular? Shipments soar in first quarter Gates sticks to company line on tablets, knocks iPad To give back to investors, Apple goes for massive bond deal Apple's privacy policy violates German data protection law, Berlin court rules Jonny Evans: EU, Motorola, Apple: How long will Google's 'Don't be evil' fiction last? Jonny Evans: Apple's $17b debt product launch: is it ethical? Jonny Evans: When the going gets tough, the tough want iPhone Jonny Evans: Adobe's Lightroom app for iOS is yet another step to Post-PC Preston Gralla: Apple drinks the Microsoft Kool Aid, bases iOS 7 on Windows 8 "Metro" Jonny Evans: Will Apple's flat iOS society please shut up? 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! Apple hijacks OS X devs to keep iOS on track Apple may delay the release of OS X 10.9 because it's pulled engineers from the team to help in a final push on the next version of iOS, according to online reports. Read More Think different: Apple's $17B debt offers stark contrast to 1996's junk bonds Apple's record-setting $17 billion bond offer this week stood in stark contrast to the company's darkest days, when in 1996 its millions in notes were rated as junk because investors wondered if the company would survive a thrashing by Microsoft Read More Want the best tech support? Buy a Mac, says Consumer Reports Apple today again captured top honors in Consumer Reports' tech support ratings survey, besting other computer makers by a wide margin. Read More Rare working Apple-1 computer to hit auction block this month A German auctioneer will put a working Apple-1 computer on the block later this month, and expects the handmade computer to fetch between $261,000 and $392,000 at Thursday's exchange rate. Read More Slideshow: 9 technologies that were ahead of their time Sometimes you build it, and they end up not coming. Read More Think tablets are popular? Shipments soar in first quarter Tablet shipments soared by 142% in the first quarter of 2013 year-over-year as all Android tablets, including low-budget white box versions, dominated the market over Apple iOS tablets, IDC said. Read More Gates sticks to company line on tablets, knocks iPad Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates today stuck to the company line on tablets, and disparaged rival Apple's iPad for its lack of a keyboard and its inability to run Office. Read More WHITE PAPER: Mimecast North America Inc What it takes to deliver Security, and Privacy at Mimecast. This whitepaper explains the process and controls that Mimecast put in place to deliver a secure, private and trusted SaaS platform for your email security, email archiving and email continuity. Learn More To give back to investors, Apple goes for massive bond deal In an effort to return cash to investors, Apple is reaching out to the debt market and offering US$17 billion in bonds, the biggest non-bank bond offering in history, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. Read More Apple's privacy policy violates German data protection law, Berlin court rules Apple violates German data protection law by asking for users' broad, overall consent in its privacy policy, the Regional Court of Berlin ruled. Read More Jonny Evans: EU, Motorola, Apple: How long will Google's 'Don't be evil' fiction last? Apple has won yet another argument against its Android nemesis as EU officials declare Google's Motorola Mobility abused its market position when it filed an injunction against Apple. It's a decision that strongly suggests Android is not truly about open competition and choice, so how long can the "don't be evil" fiction be believed? Read More Jonny Evans: Apple's $17b debt product launch: is it ethical? It's legal of course, don't get me wrong, but is it really ethical? That's the question I just cannot resolve as I consider Apple and its record $17 billion bond sale. But is it a sale or an attempt to limit tax liability? I'll allow someone cleverer at this sort of financial stuff than I to explain: Read More 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 Jonny Evans: Adobe's Lightroom app for iOS is yet another step to Post-PC We're at the dawn of a Post-PC age, at least according to Adobe which is developing a powerful iOS app for Photoshop Lightroom, putting the Mac and PC another few steps further into the background as it does. Read More Preston Gralla: Apple drinks the Microsoft Kool Aid, bases iOS 7 on Windows 8 "Metro" Apple, the aficiando of all things cool, is throwing away its old-style iOS interface in favor of the flat design pioneered by Microsoft in Windows 8 and Windows Phone. So say several reports. Could the move backfire and help Microsoft gain on Apple? Read More Jonny Evans: Will Apple's flat iOS society please shut up? Apple is working hard to redesign iOS 7. This important project is demanding resources from elsewhere in the company as it abandons some skeumorphic elements to create a cleaner, more user-focused interface. That's all we think we know. But it's time to shut up about it. Read More
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