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	iPhone buyback firms unruffled by Apple's trade-in plans Buyback firms today remained unconcerned about a reported Apple in-store iPhone trade-in program, saying that if accurate, it simply vindicated their business models. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology OPNET, Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for 2012 We are very pleased that OPNET has been recognized by Gartner as a leader in the rapidly growing APM market. A core part of our business strategy has been to be a market leader in application performance monitoring. Read Report Now In this Issue Apple and the enterprise: A complicated relationship iPlastic: Purloined cases show in-color plastic iPhone 5C Scot Finnie: Is Apple OK? Apple quietly launches iWork for iCloud public beta Icahn to press Apple CEO Tim Cook on stock buyback over dinner New smartphone OSes taking baby steps toward iOS, Android Apple buys Embark, yet another mapping app Google, Apple remove some restrictions on tech sent to Iran What Does iOS 7 Bring to the BYOD Party? Samsung won't get a retrial in 'overscroll bounce' patent fight with Apple Jonny Evans: 3 ways Apple's new iPhones should change your life Jonny Evans: Apple's iTunes Radio reminds us that music is a weapon Richi Jennings: iPhone 5C and 5S rumor roundup ridicules the echo-chamber Jonny Evans: Apple's new iPhone motion tracking's much more than an empty gesture Jonny Evans: Samsung: Has the anti-Apple lost its way? Antone Gonsalves: Why Apple customers should worry about security WHITE PAPER: Mimecast North America Inc Dealing with the Challenges of Data Fragmentation Gone are the days when one or two central systems could meet all of the organization's IT needs. We now have more departmental applications, collaboration and sharing environments, and even cloud-based services in the mix. Learn More. Apple and the enterprise: A complicated relationship Over the past 15 years, Apple has worked, and at times struggled, to figure out the best way to integrate its products into enterprise environments. Columnist Ryan Faas takes a look at that complex relationship. Read More iPlastic: Purloined cases show in-color plastic iPhone 5C Apple will unveil a pair of iPhones next month, including a lower-priced smartphone with a plastic case in five color choices, according to reports from a Taiwanese news outlet. Read More Scot Finnie: Is Apple OK? It has stumbled under Tim Cook, and 2013 has been mighty thin in terms of product launches. Can it still do amazing things? Read More Apple quietly launches iWork for iCloud public beta Apple today quietly opened the free beta of iWork for iCloud to everyone with iCloud log-on credentials. Read More Icahn to press Apple CEO Tim Cook on stock buyback over dinner Carl Icahn, the billionaire activist investor, and Apple CEO Tim Cook will dine together next month, when they will discuss Icahn's proposal to boost the company's stock buyback program. Read More New smartphone OSes taking baby steps toward iOS, Android Four new smartphone OSes intend to challenge the dominant position of Apple and Google. Mozilla's Firefox OS is the first out of the gate, but Canonical, Samsung Electronics and Intel, as well as Finnish upstart Jolla Mobile, are also getting their alternatives ready. Read More Apple buys Embark, yet another mapping app Apple is reportedly acquiring mapping app developer Embark, in a move that could lend more real-time navigation features for public transit to Apple's own Maps app. Read More Google, Apple remove some restrictions on tech sent to Iran Google has told Android developers that they can start offering free apps in Iran, while Apple has removed Iran from among the countries to which sales of its products are prohibited. Read More WHITE PAPER: Asigra The Next Great Disruptor to the Data Protection Status Quo Why should we pay so much for all the capacity that we back up, when what we really want to focus on is how much we will need to recover? Download your copy of the ESG white paper to get the Bigger Truth on the new Asigra Recovery License Model Learn More What Does iOS 7 Bring to the BYOD Party? Apple's first rule about enterprise features: 'You don't talk about enterprise features.' While you may not hear it from Cupertino, BYOD features abound in iOS 7 and, according to AirWatch's Blake Brannon, they are 'as innovative as we've seen from Apple.' Read More Samsung won't get a retrial in 'overscroll bounce' patent fight with Apple Samsung Electronics was denied Thursday a retrial over the "overscroll bounce" patent in its dispute with Apple in a federal court in California. Read More Jonny Evans: 3 ways Apple's new iPhones should change your life I know I should be writing about those new iPhones and those dubious images rumor sites are making so much money with as they publish them. What's sad is that as they fetishize the iPhone as an object they completely miss its significance as solution, and that's what I am going to talk about -- three ways the new iPhones are about to change lives. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple's iTunes Radio reminds us that music is a weapon iTunes Radio is breaking cover as the all-new Apple streaming music service gets closer to launch. Here's what we know about the service, placed in the wider context of what's happening around music at the moment and put into perspective for its likely impact on Google, Spotify and Pandora. Read More Richi Jennings: iPhone 5C and 5S rumor roundup ridicules the echo-chamber Don't ask about iPhone 5C or 5S release dates. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) watchers are prognosticating their little hearts out, as we approach the launch (probably) in two weeks (probably) of the new iPhones (probably), branded 5S (probably) and 5C (probably). You're (probably) wondering if there's anything new to say. Well, yes, there (probably) is. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder if, at this point, anybody cares two hoots about this stuff. Read More 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 Jonny Evans: Samsung: Has the anti-Apple lost its way? The Apple versus Samsung story takes a new twist next month when the Korean firm attempts to undermine September 10's iPhone launch with its own earlier special event, but has the anti-Apple lost the power to innovate? Read More Antone Gonsalves: Why Apple customers should worry about security Malware developers love Android, but researchers show Apple customers also need to worry. Read More
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