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	Analysts push iPhone 5C price predictions to $450 Some analysts have rethought their expectations on the price of Apple's expected lower-end iPhone 5C, and now believe the company will play defense by charging as much as $450 for the new plastic smartphone. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Symantec Agent and Agentless VM Backup and Recovery As you embrace virtualization or increase your virtual footprint, selecting a backup solution that integrates with VADP and VSS will provide fast snapshot-based image backups of online and offline guest virtual machines. For superior recovery capabilities a solution that gathers metadata and executes post processing tasks is a must. Read now! In this Issue Bookmaker handicaps Microsoft CEO race Developers hack Dropbox, show how to access to user data Spear phishing led to DNS attack against the New York Times, others Google cuts Nexus 4 price by up to a third in U.S. Srsly? Bitcoin, selfie added to Oxford dictionary Massive Delta IV rocket launches spy satellite Video: Delta IV Heavy blasts off with NROL-65 reconnaissance satellite VMware's virtualization quest could shake up data storage, too Infor fleshes out its Inforce Salesforce.com integration Best of summer: 3 personal cloud storage systems If you sell 36 million Samsung or Apple smartwatches, are you successful? Pirate Bay co-founder appeals fraud conviction, says others controlled his computer JR Raphael: Listen up, Samsung: Here's what a smartwatch needs to succeed Barbara Krasnoff: Kobo tries for the passionate reader Preston Gralla: Feeling lucky and looking to make a mint? Bet on Tim Cook as Microsoft's new CEO. Jonny Evans: The App Store gold rush is over as zombies take over the farm Darlene Storm: Researcher sends thoughts over Internet, moves colleague's hand: Human-to-human brain interface Antone Gonsalves: 16 smartphone AV products that get a thumbs up WHITE PAPER: Symantec Out of the Box Experience This whitepaper first discusses what to look for in a virtualization protection solution and then considers the merits of a separate solution for protecting one's virtual environment, or using a unified solution that offers comparable virtualization protection capabilities. Read now! Bookmaker handicaps Microsoft CEO race Adding insult to injury after Wall Street boosted Microsoft's stock price when CEO Steve Ballmer announced he would retire, now a U.K. bookmaker is taking bets on Ballmer's replacement. Read More   Developers hack Dropbox, show how to access to user data   Developers who were able to bypass Dropbox's security by reverse-engineering Python applications -- the language used by the cloud storage provider -- described their technique in a published paper. Read More   Spear phishing led to DNS attack against the New York Times, others The cyberattack that resulted in nytimes.com and some other high-profile websites being inaccessible to a large number of users Tuesday started with a targeted phishing attack against a reseller for Melbourne IT, an Australian domain registrar and IT services company. Read More   Google cuts Nexus 4 price by up to a third in U.S. Google has cut the price of the Nexus 4 in handful of countries including the U.K. and the U.S., where the smartphone now costs from $199. The aggressive drop signals Google wanting to preempt the arrival of a cheaper iPhone. Read More   Srsly? Bitcoin, selfie added to Oxford dictionary What do bitcoin, emoji and selfies have in common? They're all now official words, at least according to the Oxford dictionary. Read More   Massive Delta IV rocket launches spy satellite A powerful Delta IV Heavy rocket launched a classified reconnaissance satellite into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Wednesday. Read More   Video: Delta IV Heavy blasts off with NROL-65 reconnaissance satellite A Delta IV Heavy rocket lifts off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 11:03am PDT on August 28, 2013, carrying a classified payload believed to be a U.S. spy satellite. Read More   VMware's virtualization quest could shake up data storage, too The jam-packed VMworld show this week in San Francisco has been VMware's launchpad for flights deeper into storage, an area that the company thinks is due for more virtualization. Read More   Infor fleshes out its Inforce Salesforce.com integration   Infor has unveiled a new version of Inforce, a product that connects Salesforce.com's popular cloud-based CRM (customer relationship management) software with its own. Read More   WEBCAST: Workday, Inc. HR and Finance Were made for Each Other Managing HR and financial information in the modern business requires efficient business practices and technology. Learn how leveraging the cloud allows you to unify financial and HR data; visualize data with cloud analytics and improve productivity with flexible configuration. View now >> Best of summer: 3 personal cloud storage systems If you don't want to store your important files on Dropbox or Box for security or other reasons, you can create your own cloud storage system. Read More   If you sell 36 million Samsung or Apple smartwatches, are you successful? Sales of so-called 'smartwatches' will surge from 1 million to 36 million in five years, according to a speculative new report from Juniper Research. But whether that defines 'success' remains an open question. Read More   Pirate Bay co-founder appeals fraud conviction, says others controlled his computer Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg's appeal of his conviction on charges of data intrusion, attempted aggravated fraud and aggravated fraud started on Wednesday, with arguments centering on the contention that other parties used the defendant's computer by remote control. Read More   JR Raphael: Listen up, Samsung: Here's what a smartwatch needs to succeed Samsung could announce its first smartwatch as soon as next week -- and if it has these five elements in place, it might actually stand a chance at winning us over. Read More   Barbara Krasnoff: Kobo tries for the passionate reader Kobo has introduced three new tablets and an e-reader in an effort to attract the "passionate reader." But are they the right devices at the right prices? Read More   Preston Gralla: Feeling lucky and looking to make a mint? Bet on Tim Cook as Microsoft's new CEO. If you're a fan of longshots, a U.K. bookie has a deal you can't pass up: He's taking bets on who will be Microsoft's new CEO, and has given odds on Apple CEO Tim Cook taking the helm. The odds are long, but the payoff could be big. Read More   Jonny Evans: The App Store gold rush is over as zombies take over the farm The App Store gold rush is over. Today's stores are too full of apps that will never be updated or improved. That's not good enough, the industry has matured. The inconvenient truth is that app development isn't a get rich scheme any more. It's over and it's time to move on. Read More   Darlene Storm: Researcher sends thoughts over Internet, moves colleague's hand: Human-to-human brain interface University of Washington researchers successfully demonstrated the first human-to-human brain interface. One researcher stared at a video game and then sent his thoughts over the Internet, more specifically over Skype, and his brain signals moved his colleague's hand to react to the game. It was the first successful human brain-to-brain "mind meld." Read More   Antone Gonsalves: 16 smartphone AV products that get a thumbs up AV-Comparatives, an independent nonprofit software tester, has given its stamp of approval to 16 anti-virus products for Android smartphones. Read More
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