Analysts push iPhone 5C price predictions to $450

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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: HP Mobile Application Monitoring Breeds Business Possibilities Mobile applications are radically altering the way businesses operate and how they interact with their employees and customers. Ensuring performance of these mobile apps is critical, yet performance is difficult to monitor. Read Now! In this Issue Preston Gralla: Feeling lucky and looking to make a mint? Bet on Tim Cook as Microsoft's new CEO. Ballmer's exit revives demands for Office on iPad, Android tablets JR Raphael: Listen up, Samsung: Here's what a smartwatch needs to succeed Jonny Evans: Apple's new iPhone motion tracking's much more than an empty gesture Google Glass for bespectacled coming in a 'few months' Canonical asks Dell to promote Chinese version of Ubuntu OS If you sell 36 million Samsung or Apple smartwatches, are you successful? WHITE PAPER: Symantec Key Factors in Modernizing Backup and Recovery No two companies have precisely the same needs or requirements for backup and recovery solutions. However, NetBackup appliances meet the core requirements and solve the challenges associated with traditional backup and recovery approaches. They enable fast, reliable, storage, and bandwidth-efficient backups and recovery of data. Read now! 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   Ballmer's exit revives demands for Office on iPad, Android tablets Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's announcement last week that he will step aside in the next 12 months has renewed calls by analysts that the company offer Office on Apple's iPad and tablets powered by Google's Android. 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   WEBCAST: Workday, Inc. The Business Value of Human Capital Management for Finance See how a lack of integration between finance and HR can impede progress in reaching business and financial goals. View now >> Jonny Evans: Apple's new iPhone motion tracking's much more than an empty gesture The most interesting new Apple iPhone rumor this week isn't the faster speed (that's not unexpected), but the claimed introduction of a motion sensor on the device. What's Apple got planned? I've taken a look through a few Apple patents to get an idea. Read More   Google Glass for bespectacled coming in a 'few months' A version of Google Glass for people who already wear glasses will arrive in a few months, the head of the Google project said Monday. Read More   Canonical asks Dell to promote Chinese version of Ubuntu OS Canonical is in talks with Dell on making a version of Ubuntu supported by the Chinese government available as a pre-installed OS on the PC maker's upcoming products destined for the Chinese market. 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
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