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	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 WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Staying Ahead of Data Protection Challenges Does your organization still yearn for an infrastructure that can handle unpredictable data growth and enable you to enhance service levels, while ensuring data protection? Learn how to completely transform your data protection processes so that your organization can accelerate transformations and make existing operations more efficient. Learn more. In this Issue Jonny Evans: Apple's $17b debt product launch: is it ethical? Want the best tech support? Buy a Mac, says Consumer Reports Richi Jennings: iOS 7 'Innsbruck' copies... Windows Metro? Here's why fanbois may hate it... To give back to investors, Apple goes for massive bond deal MediaTek aims to boost low-cost Android smartphone performance Yes Siri, no Siri, for the Mac WHITE PAPER: QLogic Corporation Enterprise Application Performance Scalability This ESG Lab preview summarizes the results of independent, third-party testing of QLogic's 10000 Series 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapter with a focus on database performance improvements and cache effectiveness in single-server and multi-server environments. Read Now! 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 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 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: Mimecast North America Inc The Shape of Email Our "Shape of Email" research attempts, for the first time, to describe the content of a typical corporate inbox in terms of its importance and relevance to the user. 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 MediaTek aims to boost low-cost Android smartphone performance Semiconductor company MediaTek wants to improve the performance of low-cost Android-based smartphones with its latest system-on-a-chip, the MT6572. Read More Yes Siri, no Siri, for the Mac Apple's next version of OS X will probably not include Siri, the digital, voice-activated assistant embedded in the iPhone and iPad, an analyst predicted. Read More
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