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	INSIDER Platform as a service heats up The platform-as-a-service market is still tiny, but it's growing as vendors consolidate and more users decide give PaaS a try. Insider (registration required) Read More WEBCAST: HP Intel VMware Your IT Journey - Your Way Faced with unrelenting pressure to do more with less, IT leaders are implementing virtualization, mobility and cloud computing in their enterprises. In this Knowledge Vault Exchange you'll find a plethora of valuable information, including videos, on-demand Webcasts, white papers and Twitter chats. View Now! In this Issue Office for iPhone downloads start with a bang, but fizzle before 4th Microsoft restores $14.3M in stock awards to ex-Windows chief Sinofsky Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse, has died Microsoft to close down MSN TV on Sept. 30 Internet Explorer pegged for critical fix on Tuesday What kind of crazy scheme is Motorola hatching? FCC approves Softbank's $21.6B acquisition of Sprint Nintendo's fan site hit by illicit logins, 24,000 accounts accessed The worst cloud outages of 2013 (so far) Venezuela, Bolivia offer asylum to Edward Snowden Apple faces competition for iWatch trademark in Europe Voice-over-LTE won't take off until 2015, will have to compete with telephony apps Nokia expected to take smartphone cameras to new heights with 41-megapixel Lumia Solar-powered aircraft completes cross-US journey HTC Q2 profit down 83 percent Samsung predicts big earnings jump in Q2, still disappoints Jonny Evans: Why Apple really, really doesn't need a shopkeeper to lead its retail chain JohnWThompson: Competing in the global marketplace Jonny Evans: Apple's iWork for iCloud beta is super-speedy, a first look 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. Office for iPhone downloads start with a bang, but fizzle before 4th After an initial rush, downloads of Microsoft's free Office for the iPhone quickly tailed off, data from a mobile app analytics company showed Sunday. Read More Microsoft restores $14.3M in stock awards to ex-Windows chief Sinofsky Microsoft has reached an agreement with former Windows chief Steven Sinofsky -- ousted from the company last November -- that will award him stock worth more than $14 million, according to an SEC filing. Read More Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse, has died Douglas Engelbart, a Silicon Valley engineer who invented the computer mouse and is credited with many of the concepts that underpin modern computing and the Internet, died on Tuesday at his home in Atherton, California. He was 88. Read More Microsoft to close down MSN TV on Sept. 30 Microsoft is shutting down on Sept. 30 its MSN TV service that allowed users to browse the Web from their TVs, as there are now new ways to access the Internet including mobile phones, tablets and its own Xbox console. Read More Internet Explorer pegged for critical fix on Tuesday Microsoft's monthly patch release for July will cover seven security issues, six of which could be remotely exploited by an attacker. Read More What kind of crazy scheme is Motorola hatching? Motorola and Google say in a new ad their upcoming Moto X phone will be designed by users. Columnist Mike Elgan says what he thinks they're planning. Read More FCC approves Softbank's $21.6B acquisition of Sprint The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has approved the $21.6 billion acquisition of Sprint by Japanese telecommunications group Softbank, saying it promises to bring consumers faster and more advanced wireless broadband Internet service. Read More Nintendo's fan site hit by illicit logins, 24,000 accounts accessed Nintendo said a main fan site was hit by a wave of illicit login attempts in Japan over the last month, with attackers gaining access to nearly 24,000 accounts containing users' real names, addresses, phone numbers and emails information. Read More The worst cloud outages of 2013 (so far) From Amazon to Dropbox and Microsoft to Google, we've seen some nasty cloud outages in the first half of the year. Which company failed the worst? Read More WHITE PAPER: VMware 4 Reasons to Expand Virtualization of Your IT Environment In this eBook, find out how other VMware customers have extended their virtualization deployment and have uncovered significant benefits, such as simplified IT management and reallocation of resources. Read Now! Venezuela, Bolivia offer asylum to Edward Snowden Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro has offered to give asylum to Edward Snowden, the former contractor of the National Security Agency who leaked documents about the agency's surveillance programs. Read More Apple faces competition for iWatch trademark in Europe Apple will face competition in Europe for the "iWatch" trademark it has already filed for in Japan, Taiwan and Mexico, because other companies have already registered the name in relevant trademark categories. Read More Voice-over-LTE won't take off until 2015, will have to compete with telephony apps The technology to implement Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) is maturing, but mobile operators won't roll out telephony services in earnest until 2015. At the same time apps like Skype and Fring are growing quickly in popularity, according to Infonetics Research. Read More Nokia expected to take smartphone cameras to new heights with 41-megapixel Lumia Nokia is expected to launch a follow-up to its 41-megapixel 808 PureView running Windows Phone a week from now, a move that will give the struggling phone vendor a much needed boost, according to one analyst. Read More Solar-powered aircraft completes cross-US journey A one-of-a-kind solar-powered aircraft completed a two-month journey across the United States at just after 11pm EDT Saturday evening (3am GMT Sunday) when it landed at New York's JFK Airport. Read More HTC Q2 profit down 83 percent HTC's second quarter net profit plummeted 83 percent year on year as sales of the company's latest flagship handset failed to meet expectations. Read More Samsung predicts big earnings jump in Q2, still disappoints Samsung Electronics predicted a big jump in profit for the second quarter compared to a year earlier, but the company's explosive growth is slowing amid signs its top end Galaxy smartphones are less popular than expected. Read More Jonny Evans: Why Apple really, really doesn't need a shopkeeper to lead its retail chain The search for a new retail chief continues at Apple, but perhaps the company is simply looking in the wrong direction: it doesn't need a shopkeeper to run its retail stores -- it needs an evangelist. Read More JohnWThompson: Competing in the global marketplace Whether you work for a large company or a small startup, chances are your business is global in nature. And if it's not there yet, I would expect that it's part of your organization's long-term strategy. The real question for companies today is not if they should expand - but when and where to expand. Building a global business brings tremendous benefits to your organization, but only if the expansion is done in a thoughtful way. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple's iWork for iCloud beta is super-speedy, a first look Apple has opened up its iWork for iCloud beta to a large number of new beta testers, so I've spent a couple of hours taking a look at what's inside the cloud-based productivity suite. What follows is a whistle-stop tour of what's good and what's missing in the suite so far. Read More
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