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	Long-term review: Apple's newest MacBook Air continues to impress When it comes to style, the new model looks exactly like its predecessor. This year's changes are all beneath the surface -- and are uniformly good, says Michael deAgonia. Read More WHITE PAPER: CommVault Enterprise Storage eGuide Storage professionals today are dealing with the ramification of a number of new technologies. Trends such as cloud, virtualization, mobility and big data are having a significant impact on how enterprises store data today. Learn More In this Issue Wall Street pegs 4% slide in Mac sales, 6% boost to iPad Apple confirms hack of its developer website Surface RT $900M pounding renews calls for Office on iPad Serious MacBook Pro discounts hint at pending refresh Apple's interest in supersized iPad signals mimicry of Microsoft Apple, Microsoft to leap on app auto-update bandwagon Apple may buy Israeli firm that delivered Kinect 3-D tech to Redmond rival Microsoft embraces Surface RT price cut -- and $900M write-down -- by poking fun at Apple's iPad Apple acquires Locationary for local listings Microsoft takes Outlook Web App native on iPhone, iPad New digitally signed Mac malware confuses users with right-to-left file name tricks 'Kill switch' on smartphones takes a step forward Jonny Evans: Apple's Logic Remote shows the logic of Post-PC Jonny Evans: Opinion: Now Samsung's even emulating Apple's WWDC... Richi Jennings: Apple hacked: 'Naked' personal details accessed; Dev Center down for DAYS Jonny Evans: Apple purchases Locationary to make accurate crowd-sourced Maps Jonny Evans: Apple, Google, Microsoft and others demand transparency post-PRISM Jonny Evans: Just how important is a part in Apple's brand story? WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Eliminating the Challenge of Remote Backup In today's global economy, many companies are increasingly distributed. That puts IT in a precarious position, especially when it comes to backup processes. Providing IT services to remote locations generally requires investment in local servers, storage, and networking. Read Now 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 Apple confirms hack of its developer website Apple on Sunday admitted that its developer website, which has been offline since Thursday, had been hacked and sSome information may have been stolen. Read More Surface RT $900M pounding renews calls for Office on iPad Armed with a $900 million argument, an analyst raised the Office-on-iPad banner, saying that the flop of the Surface RT gives Microsoft a chance to make billions in lemonade from its lemon. Read More Serious MacBook Pro discounts hint at pending refresh Best Buy has discounted some MacBook Pro laptops by as much as $200, and offered college students another $100 off in a promotion that may hint at impending refreshes of Apple's signature notebook. Read More Apple's interest in supersized iPad signals mimicry of Microsoft Apple's reported interest in a larger iPad tablet with a 13-in. screen shows that the Cupertino Calif. company is thinking along some of the same lines as its rival Microsoft, analysts said today. Read More Apple, Microsoft to leap on app auto-update bandwagon By this fall, Apple and Microsoft will have followed in the footsteps of Google to automatically update apps on their mobile and desktop platforms, another move to take security out of users' hands. Read More Apple may buy Israeli firm that delivered Kinect 3-D tech to Redmond rival Apple may acquire the Israeli chip design company that provided the motion sensing technology used in Microsoft's popular Kinect video game controller, the Israeli business daily Calcalist reported today. Read More Microsoft embraces Surface RT price cut -- and $900M write-down -- by poking fun at Apple's iPad The day after Microsoft took a $900 million charge against its Surface RT tablet -- sparking rumors it would dump the poor-selling device -- the company unveiled a new ad that took on Apple's iPad by touting the Surface RT's lower price of $349. Read More Apple acquires Locationary for local listings Apple has acquired Locationary, a start-up based in Toronto that provides a platform for aggregating and managing local business listings. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Preparing Your Infrastructure for the Hyperconvergence Era From cloud computing and virtualization to mobility and unified communications, an array of innovative technologies is transforming today's data centers. And along the way, they're also flooding corporate networks with enormous new torrents of traffic. Read Now Microsoft takes Outlook Web App native on iPhone, iPad Microsoft today launched Outlook Web App (OWA) for iOS, a "native" app that reprises -- and amplifies -- the in-browser OWA corporate workers have long used on devices that don't support the full-fledged Outlook client. Read More New digitally signed Mac malware confuses users with right-to-left file name tricks A new piece of digitally signed spyware for Mac OS X uses a special Unicode character in its file name to hide its real file extension from users and trick them into installing it. Read More 'Kill switch' on smartphones takes a step forward A call by U.S. prosecutors for phone manufacturers to install a "kill switch" to discourage smartphone theft has taken a step forward, with Apple and Samsung providing handsets whose security features will be put to the test. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple's Logic Remote shows the logic of Post-PC Apple yesterday introduced Logic Pro X and in doing so took another big step toward a post-PC future, releasing an iPad app that acts as a user interface for many of the application's actions. Read More Jonny Evans: Opinion: Now Samsung's even emulating Apple's WWDC... The Apple versus Samsung story really has grown old, but it seems the Korean firm has the ethics of a love-crossed stalker and really doesn't know where to draw the line -- and I think its latest copycat move is really rather vulgar as Samsung hosts a US developer event a few hundred meters away from Apple's WWDC. Read More Richi Jennings: Apple hacked: 'Naked' personal details accessed; Dev Center down for DAYS Cook and Co. rush around and fix bugs. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is scrambling to fix a security hole in its Developer Center site. It's been down 'for maintenance' since Thursday, but now the company's confessed it was hacked, and that some personal information was stored unencrypted. However, a Turkish security researcher based in London says he reported the problem and that he's not a hacker at all. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers get to the bottom of the situation. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple purchases Locationary to make accurate crowd-sourced Maps Apple has made a significant technology acquisition designed to massively improve its ill-starred Maps service, purchasing Canadian start-up, Locationary. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple, Google, Microsoft and others demand transparency post-PRISM Tech firms have begun fighting back against the level of US government surveillance revealed with PRISM, with Apple, Google, Facebook and others uniting to demand greater transparency when it comes to the full extent of government surveillance -- but this isn't just about privacy, this is a fight for the future of technology. 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
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