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	Lawyers sue Microsoft over Surface RT 'unmitigated disaster' Several law firms joined forces on Monday to sue Microsoft, accusing the company of misleading shareholders about sales of the Surface RT tablet and calling its entry into the market an "unmitigated disaster." 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 Larry Ellison forecasts Apple's doom Talk to me, Facebook! Social net buys speech recognition company Disk giants raise the hard-drive banner at a flash storage powwow New Android malware is being distributed through mobile ad networks BlackBerry turns to 7 OS for new 9720 smartphone The Xerox character-substitution bug is worse than first thought Amazon improves performance of CloudFormation management platform Intel revives OLPC rivalry with new Android tablet design Amazon offers mobile developers cross-platform push notifications Teradici boosts virtual desktop performance with caching and GPUs Samsung ships curved OLED TV in US for about $9,000 Preston Gralla: Six reasons Microsoft should buy BlackBerry JR Raphael: The most important thing you can do with your Android phone right now 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. Larry Ellison forecasts Apple's doom Oracle CEO Larry Ellison in an interview on CBS yesterday praised Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, calling him "our Edison," and argued that without him, Apple would lose its status as a technology leader. Read More   Talk to me, Facebook! Social net buys speech recognition company Facebook said it is buying Mobile Technologies, a company known for its speech recognition and voice-to-voice translation technology. Read More   Disk giants raise the hard-drive banner at a flash storage powwow Some of the biggest names in hard disk drives will band together this week to remind the world that storage isn't all about flash. Read More   New Android malware is being distributed through mobile ad networks Mobile ad networks can provide a loophole to serve malware to Android devices, according to researchers from security firm Palo Alto Networks who have found new Android threats being distributed in this manner. Read More   BlackBerry turns to 7 OS for new 9720 smartphone BlackBerry has launched the 9720 smartphone running the 7 OS in a bid to stay relevant in the growing low end of the smartphone market. Read More   The Xerox character-substitution bug is worse than first thought A software bug that caused some characters to be substituted for others in scans by some Xerox machines is more serious than previously thought. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Plantronics, Inc. Making Voice a Successful Part of Your UC Rollout You've thought long and hard about the investment you're making in Unified Communications. We've compiled ten steps to streamline the audio aspect of your UC deployment. Putting an audio strategy in place now can help you plan, deploy and eventually drive higher adoption rates. Download our workbook now! Read Now! Amazon improves performance of CloudFormation management platform Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added new features to the company's management platform CloudFormation that aim to improve performance and simplify updates. Read More   Intel revives OLPC rivalry with new Android tablet design   Intel's 10-inch and 7-inch Android tablet designs are now available to manufacturers, and the resulting products could rekindle a long rivalry in the education market with One Laptop Per Child, whose first Android tablet became available in July. Read More   Amazon offers mobile developers cross-platform push notifications Amazon Web Services is offering a new service that aims to make it easier for developers to send push notifications to Android and iOS applications. Read More   Teradici boosts virtual desktop performance with caching and GPUs Teradici has updated the PCoIP Hardware Accelerator with caching and better GPU support to improve the performance of virtual desktop installations based on VMware's Horizon View platform. Read More   Samsung ships curved OLED TV in US for about $9,000 Samsung Electronics America has started shipping its first curved OLED TV, pricing it at $8,999.99 and making it available through specialty retailers in the U.S. Read More   Preston Gralla: Six reasons Microsoft should buy BlackBerry One of the best ways Microsoft for Microsoft to jump-start its lagging mobile business is to buy struggling BlackBerry. Why buy a mobile company quickly going south? There are plenty of reasons -- here are the top six why Microsoft should pay up and take over BlackBerry. Read More   JR Raphael: The most important thing you can do with your Android phone right now Don't delay: If you own an Android phone or tablet, there's an important new setting you should activate this minute. Read More
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