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	Cut-rate iPhones? They're already here Calls for Apple to start selling a lower-priced iPhone just don't make sense, an analyst said today, since Apple already sells millions of discounted smartphones. Read More WHITE PAPER: Globanet Next Generation Archive Migration Tools This guide is designed to demonstrate the new features of Migrate, and how these features directly benefit data migration customers and providers. Read Now! In this Issue Here comes Tizen! Samsung to host its first developer conference in October Android spyware infections on the rise Self-driving cars could create 1GB of data a second Wall Street pegs 4% slide in Mac sales, 6% boost to iPad Motorola Mobility unveils three Droids, including a new Ultra, for Verizon Nokia launches Lumia 625 smartphone with 4.7-in screen Cisco to acquire security vendor Sourcefire for $2.7 billion Who benefits from Kroes' proposed new E.U. telecom regs? Bug bounties: Bad dog! Have a treat! Silver Peak weans WAN optimization customers off hardware with virtualization pitch Barbara Krasnoff: 3 new Motorola Droids -- and a Moto X in sight Jonny Evans: Just how important is a part in Apple's brand story? Preston Gralla: Will big-screen iPads kill off Microsoft's Surface tablets? Darlene Storm: FDA asks hackers to expose holes in medical devices, but many researchers fear CFAA & jail WEBCAST: Hitachi and SAP SAP HANA from Proof of Value Through Production Deployment Learn how to adopt SAP HANA organically and cost-effectively. Hitachi "Live in Five" services support SAP HANA business use cases and related business ROI. For the data center, learn about SAP HANA deployment options that support service level agreements (SLAs). Learn more Here comes Tizen! Samsung to host its first developer conference in October Samsung is the largest maker of Android smartphones, which make up up 70% of the overall worldwide smartphone market. Now the company's dependence on Android seems poised to start shifting to the open source Tizen OS. Read More Android spyware infections on the rise An increasing number of Android phones are infected with mobile malware programs that are able to turn the handsets into spying devices, according to a report from Kindsight Security Labs, a subsidiary of telecommunications equipment vendor Alcatel-Lucent. Read More Self-driving cars could create 1GB of data a second Self-driving cars, which some experts have predicted will be readily available within five years, will come with a myriad of sensors creating machine-to-machine data at the rate of 1GB a second, according to one big-data strategist. Read More Wall Street pegs 4% slide in Mac sales, 6% boost to iPad Mac sales fell 4% in the quarter that ended June 30, putting Apple into the same leaky boat as the much larger, problem-plagued PC industry, according to a survey of several dozen financial analysts. Apple will disclose its second-quarter numbers later today. Read More Motorola Mobility unveils three Droids, including a new Ultra, for Verizon Google's Motorola Mobility has upgraded its lineup of Droid smartphones, announcing three new models including the flagship Droid Ultra. The new phones will be available through Verizon Wireless. Read More Nokia launches Lumia 625 smartphone with 4.7-in screen Nokia announced its largest Windows 8 smartphone today, the low-cost Lumia 625 that sports a 4.7-in. LCD screen. Read More Cisco to acquire security vendor Sourcefire for $2.7 billion Cisco is set to expand its security software portfolio with the acquisition of Sourcefire in a deal worth US$2.7 billion. Read More WEBCAST: PC Connection Cisco UCS Manager Demo Watch this webinar in which Chris King, Consulting Systems Engineer for Cisco, demonstrates Cisco UCS Manager - the single tool to manage the entire UCS environment without separate/additional applications or hardware. View now. Who benefits from Kroes' proposed new E.U. telecom regs? Removing mobile phone roaming charges in the European Union may prove more expensive for customers in the long run, a telecoms expert has warned. Read More Bug bounties: Bad dog! Have a treat! Bug bounty programs are probably very cost-effective for software vendors, but they reward bad behavior. Read More Silver Peak weans WAN optimization customers off hardware with virtualization pitch WAN optimization vendor Silver Peak apparently sees the writing on the data center's walls, announcing a new program today that offers a free upgrade to a virtual edition of its products to users of its hardware appliances. Read More Barbara Krasnoff: 3 new Motorola Droids -- and a Moto X in sight With all eyes -- or, at least, all tech geek eyes -- looking ahead to Moto X, the first phone that has been manufactured under the auspices of Motorola Mobile/Google, Verizon has just introduced three new Motorola phones under relatively modest circumstances. They seem like fine phones. Read More Jonny Evans: Just how important is a part in Apple's brand story? There's a reason competitors like to go up against Apple: that reason's not just about business, it is because they hope to become part of the company's story. That story is pre-eminent among consumer brands, and other less well-fabled firms hope competing with Cupertino will be enough to seize themselves a speaking part in the Apple movie. Read More Preston Gralla: Will big-screen iPads kill off Microsoft's Surface tablets? There's more bad news for Microsoft's struggling line of Surface tablets: Apple is said to be working on a 13-inch iPad that could be used as a productivity device, not just for entertainment. If true, it could just about kill off any chance the Surface has for success. Read More Darlene Storm: FDA asks hackers to expose holes in medical devices, but many researchers fear CFAA & jail At Black Hat USA, two security researchers will highlight scary insecurity in medical devices and how humans can be hacked. Although the FDA has become an ally for security researchers who want to disclose medical device vulnerabilities, the research of other hackers has been chilled due to the aggressive way CFAA has been interpreted and used in prosecutions--such as in the cases of Aaron Swartz and convicted AT&T/iPad "hacker" Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer. Security research eventually trickles down to help protect the public, but many researchers are scrapping projects due to the fear of being sued or being sent to prison. Read More
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