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	First impressions of Apple's new MacBook Air Apple's newest MacBook Air uses Intel's latest Haswell chip and promises "all-day" battery life. Columnist Michael deAgonia offers up some early thoughts on Apple's stylish ultra-thin laptop. Read More WEBCAST: SAP Bring Mobile Innovation to your Enterprise. With the mobility revolution well underway, CIO's and Line of Business owners are faced with the struggle to develop a winning mobile strategy. In this exclusive SAP KnowledgeVault Exchange, find out how to give your company an edge by developing a secure, future-proof mobile strategy. Learn More In this Issue 7 hot gadgets to make your summer sizzle Fear of thinking war machines may push U.S. to exascale Provisions under which NSA can collect, retain data on U.S. residents revealed U.S. inventor of DRAM tech honored in Japan Will Instagram video weed out Vine? Oracle, Microsoft to announce new partnership Monday Wi-Fi's fast 802.11ac standard may pay off big in mobile Oracle's Ellison spills beans on upcoming SAP HANA competitor and Database 12c plans After closing arguments, Apple's fate in e-book antitrust case goes to judge Sony Xperia A doubles Samsung Galaxy S4 in head-to-head Japan sales Aaron's Law would revamp computer fraud penalties Oracle Q4 profits up 10 percent, but revenue flat How to turn CSV data into interactive visualizations with R and rCharts Richi Jennings: iPhone 5S features & specs -- new rumors revealed WEBCAST: IBM Corporation Give Your Users What They Want with Cloud and Mobile Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 Time: 2:00 PM EDT You will learn: - How moving to the cloud can help accelerate mobile adoption in your organization. - The benefits of combining the power of cloud with the freedom and functionality of mobile. Learn More. 7 hot gadgets to make your summer sizzle Ready for summer? We've tested a fresh batch of tech gear built for the great outdoors. Whether you're going camping, paddling upriver, exploring the backcountry or just lounging by the pool, these gadgets can enhance your alfresco adventures. Read More Fear of thinking war machines may push U.S. to exascale Unlike China and Europe, the U.S. has yet to adopt and fund an exascale development program, and concerns about what that means to U.S. security are growing darker. Read More Provisions under which NSA can collect, retain data on U.S. residents revealed Two secret documents describing the procedures the National Security Agency (NSA) is required to follow when spying on foreign terror suspects reveal the provisions that allow the agency to collect, retain and use information on U.S residents without a warrant, The Guardian newspaper reported today Read More U.S. inventor of DRAM tech honored in Japan A U.S. researcher at IBM who invented the basic building block of the modern DRAM has been honored with a prestigious Japanese award and a $500,000 prize. Read More Will Instagram video weed out Vine? Facebook has unveiled its new video feature for Instagram, five months after Twitter launched a very similar video app called Vine. Can the rival services co-exist? Read More Oracle, Microsoft to announce new partnership Monday Microsoft and Oracle are set to reveal details of a new partnership on Monday, one of a "startling series" of announcements Oracle CEO Larry Ellison promised next week around the Oracle Database 12c. Read More Wi-Fi's fast 802.11ac standard may pay off big in mobile The emerging IEEE 802.11ac wireless LAN standard will be able to deliver faster connections wherever it's used, but the biggest benefit may come at public hotspots -- eventually. 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. Oracle's Ellison spills beans on upcoming SAP HANA competitor and Database 12c plans Oracle hasn't even officially released its 12c database yet, but CEO Larry Ellison has already revealed plans for the version that will follow, 12.1c, which apparently will be Oracle's most direct response yet to SAP's HANA in-memory platform. Read More After closing arguments, Apple's fate in e-book antitrust case goes to judge "Word games," an "overreaching narrative" and a "case of inferences" were a few choice phrases used by attorney Orin Snyder Thursday in closing arguments for Apple in the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust, e-books price fixing case against the tech giant. Read More Sony Xperia A doubles Samsung Galaxy S4 in head-to-head Japan sales Sales of Sony's Xperia A smartphone have doubled those of the Samsung Galaxy S4 at Japan's main carrier, after a nationwide sales campaign that exclusively promoted the two handsets side-by-side. Read More Aaron's Law would revamp computer fraud penalties Two U.S. lawmakers have introduced a bill that would prevent the Department of Justice from prosecuting people for violating terms of service for Web-based products, website notices or employment agreements under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Read More Oracle Q4 profits up 10 percent, but revenue flat Oracle's revenue was flat year-over-year in its fourth quarter at US$10.9 billion, while profits rose 10 percent to $3.8 billion, as the company reported strong growth in sales for SaaS (software as a service) subscriptions and "engineered systems" such as Exadata. Read More How to turn CSV data into interactive visualizations with R and rCharts Once your data are in the right format, just a couple of lines of R code can generate a robust chart or graph from your spreadsheet. Read More Richi Jennings: iPhone 5S features & specs -- new rumors revealed Apple iPhone 5S features and specs leak. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is expected to release a new smartphone in the fall again. No surprise there, and no surprise if it's an 'S' model: a tweaked version of today's flagship. New pictures have emerged, showing the interior and the rear case of a purported pomaceous prototype. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers stare at the images, seeking supine inspiration. Read More
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