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	A detailed look at Apple's iOS 7 The star of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference last week was clearly iOS 7, which gets a new look and a raft of new features. Columnist Michael deAgonia takes a look at what's coming this fall. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation EMC Service Assurance Suite Discover how you can get visibility into virtualized environments, the cloud and software-defined date centers, analyze availability and performance, optimize the environment and control costs with end-to-end performance, capacity management and reporting. Learn more. In this Issue The new MacBook Air gets a 45% performance boost with PCIe flash IT will have a love-hate relationship with iOS 7, OS X Mavericks and iCloud Apple's Mac move could spur PCIe flash flurry in other notebooks, desktops New MacBook Air still stymies repairs, upgrades 5-year-old Macs not too old for OS X Mavericks Microsoft shows revenue hand with Office for iPhone Apple plays defense, Microsoft goes on offense in battle for iPhone customers Office Mobile for the iPhone enters an already-crowded field Best-guess $349 price for smaller Surface RT pits Microsoft against Apple for high-end Mini market Jonny Evans: Woz says no to PRISM in the free world Apple pushes three-times-faster Wi-Fi to new base station, MacBook Air laptops How super high-def displays change everything Jonny Evans: WWDC: Now it looks like Apple's going to take out the console market Jonny Evans: Why is Apple upgrading its entire ecosystem this Fall? 10 takeaways from Apple's WWDC Jonny Evans: Apple is planning a liquid-cooled iPhone (and so are Samsung and HTC) Apple received thousands of data requests from US law enforcers Apple's crucial overscroll bounce patent claim is valid, US patent office says JR Raphael: Reality check: The truth about iOS vs. Android upgrades Apple sees chance to compete with Office on the Web WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Enable Faster Backup and More Effective Long-Term Archiving EMC Data Domain Systems respond to the challenges organizations are struggling with as they balance requirements for disk-based backup, long-term backup retention, and cost-effective archiving. The systems support long-term backup retention and provide a foundation for supporting new archiving workloads. Learn more. The new MacBook Air gets a 45% performance boost with PCIe flash Apple has slipped new superfast PCIe flash into its thinnest of thin notebooks -- the new MacBook Air models released on Monday Read More IT will have a love-hate relationship with iOS 7, OS X Mavericks and iCloud Consumers and business users alike will find things to love about OS X Mavericks and iOS 7, says columnist Ryan Faas. But for enterprise IT pros, this week's announcements are a mixed bag. Read More Apple's Mac move could spur PCIe flash flurry in other notebooks, desktops With Apple's announcement that it'll bypass a SATA SSD in its Mac Pro and MacBook Air and go straight for the stratosphere of flash with a PCIe card, some pundits are speculating other laptops and desktop vendors may not be far behind. Read More New MacBook Air still stymies repairs, upgrades Apple's newest MacBook Air, nearly identical to its predecessor, is not any easier to repair, iFixit said this week after tearing apart one of the just-released ultra-light notebooks. Read More 5-year-old Macs not too old for OS X Mavericks The new OS X Mavericks will run on the same set of Mac desktops and notebooks as OS X Mountain Lion, but iOS 7 will drop support for iPhone 3GS, the 2009 smartphone supported by the current iOS 6. Read More Microsoft shows revenue hand with Office for iPhone Last week's release of Office Mobile for the iPhone nailed down one of the mysteries pundits had pondered -- how Microsoft planned to generate Office revenue from Apple's iPhone and iPad. Read More Apple plays defense, Microsoft goes on offense in battle for iPhone customers Rivals Apple and Microsoft bookended the week by revealing productivity tools aimed at the same pool of customers: The millions who own Apple's iPhone. Read More Office Mobile for the iPhone enters an already-crowded field Microsoft released its first iOS version of Office on Friday, but a wide range of alternative iOS apps and suites already exists. Ryan Faas details some of the competition. Read More Best-guess $349 price for smaller Surface RT pits Microsoft against Apple for high-end Mini market Microsoft will probably price its own 8-in. Surface tablet running Windows RT at $349, just 6% higher than Apple's iPad Mini but nowhere near the basement $199 of Android rivals, an analyst said this week. Read More Jonny Evans: Woz says no to PRISM in the free world With free men now gazing through PRISM, darkly, Apple has moved to quell fears concerning its customer's online privacy by revealing those details it is aware of regarding the US NSA's legitimately filed requests for that data -- but have we got the big picture, or just a partial account of what's been going on? Meanwhile Apple co-founder, Woz, is angry at the implications of the NSA's snooping system. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Mobile Application Monitoring Breeds Business Possibilities Mobile applications are radically altering the way businesses operate and how they interact with their employees and customers. Ensuring performance of these mobile apps is critical, yet performance is difficult to monitor. Read Now! Apple pushes three-times-faster Wi-Fi to new base station, MacBook Air laptops Apple has doubled down on getting faster Wi-Fi by including support for the emerging 802.11ac (also called 5G Wi-Fi) standard in its new AirPort Extreme base station, Time Capsule and MacBook Air laptops, all unveiled at its World Wide Developer Conference on Monday. Read More How super high-def displays change everything The new super high-resolution screens bring beauty, clarity and precision to our work and play, writes columnist Mike Elgan. Are they worth the extra money? Definitely. Read More Jonny Evans: WWDC: Now it looks like Apple's going to take out the console market WWDC 2013: With the dust settling on the recent Xbox and PS4 launches, Apple appears to have its own plan for the console gaming market -- though it's keeping pretty quiet about it, particularly since these plans could reflect its intentions for an Apple television. Read More Jonny Evans: Why is Apple upgrading its entire ecosystem this Fall? Apple seems set for a major Fall upgrade across its ecosystem with Reuters adding speculation the company also plans a Fall launch of a $99 iPhone available in multiple colors -- iTunes Radio, the Mac Pro, iOS 7 and OS X are also set for release then. Why? Read More 10 takeaways from Apple's WWDC Apple held its much-anticipated annual World Wide Developers Conference keynote on Monday. Here are some of the highlights from the keynote that will matter most to Mac users. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple is planning a liquid-cooled iPhone (and so are Samsung and HTC) The race to take the title of "World's Most Advanced Smartphone" is driving Apple, Samsung and HTC to explore increasingly advanced technologies, with a Digitimes report claiming all three firms are working to develop liquid cooled smartphones in order to boost power efficiency. Read More Apple received thousands of data requests from US law enforcers Apple received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests for customer data from U.S. law enforcement between Dec. 1 and May 31, the company said on Monday. Read More Apple's crucial overscroll bounce patent claim is valid, US patent office says The U.S. Patent Office has confirmed four claims of Apple's overscroll bounce patent, including claim 19, according to a document filed with a federal court on Thursday. That claim played a crucial part in Apple's $1.05 billion lawsuit against Samsung. Read More JR Raphael: Reality check: The truth about iOS vs. Android upgrades Apple wants you to think its OS upgrade system is immaculate while Android's is a fragmented mess -- but numbers alone don't tell the whole story. Read More Apple sees chance to compete with Office on the Web Almost as an afterthought, Apple on Monday announced it was working on browser-based versions of its iWork productivity applications, a move one analyst said challenged Microsoft's Office behemoth. Read More
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