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	Teardowns reveal Apple's customary high margins for both iPhone 5S and 5C The 16GB iPhone 5S costs Apple approximately $199 to manufacture, while the plastic-encased 16GB iPhone 5C runs $173, putting both new smartphones comfortably within the Cupertino, Calif. company's envious profit margins, an analyst said today. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Preparing Your Infrastructure for the Hyperconvergence Era From cloud computing and virtualization to mobility and unified communications, an array of innovative technologies is transforming today's data centers. And along the way, they're also flooding corporate networks with enormous new torrents of traffic. Read Now In this Issue Kindle Fire HDX tablets show big push for business users Chrome users oppose change to Google's new tab page JR Raphael: Amazon's Kindle Fire HDX and Android: Some important perspective Preston Gralla: Usability tests call Windows Phone 8 'oppressive,' 'forbidding,' 'challenging to use' Sudan drops off Internet amid internal strife Samsung provides tools to nudge Galaxy devices into enterprise Micron ships Hybrid Memory Cube that boosts DRAM 15X New Verizon broadband router supports data and voice Google creates network for tech startups Twitter partners with FEMA, Red Cross for emergency alerts feature Barbara Krasnoff: Jabra Supreme UC: A headset for both smartphones and Skype Twitter tries 'magic' to keep users in the know Wozniak expounds on his hacking shenanigans and online mischief HP adds converged infrastructure smarts to servers Darlene Storm: FDA will regulate mobile apps that turn smartphones into medical devices WHITE PAPER: Symantec Comparison of Unified vs. Two Products Because of the outstanding economy, flexibility, and service levels it offers, virtualization is transforming data centers at breakneck speed: by 2016, an estimated 80% of the world's x86 servers will be virtual machines (VMs). But the speed of this transformation raise challenges for "traditional" IT services and the teams that deliver them. Read now! Kindle Fire HDX tablets show big push for business users Amazon unveiled two Kindle Fire HDX tablets with features that indicate a clear attempt to attract business users to the platform. Read More   Chrome users oppose change to Google's new tab page Google started rolling out a redesigned new tab page for Chrome, making good on a promise from last month when it offered the revamp to users running rougher-edged versions of its browser. Read More   JR Raphael: Amazon's Kindle Fire HDX and Android: Some important perspective Amazon's new Kindle Fire HDX tablets are impressive-sounding products, but they have some significant limitations compared to regular Android devices. Read More   Preston Gralla: Usability tests call Windows Phone 8 'oppressive,' 'forbidding,' 'challenging to use' Windows Phone is much harder to use than competing smartphone operating systems, with a sometimes "oppressive" and "forbidding" interface, says a recent usability shootout done by a consulting firm. Is the report accurate, or are the testers completely off base? Read More   Sudan drops off Internet amid internal strife In what has become a familiar pattern in countries in crisis, the government in Sudan appears to have pulled the plug on Internet services there. Read More   Samsung provides tools to nudge Galaxy devices into enterprise Samsung is wooing developers in an effort to push its Galaxy smartphones and tablets, which have been popular with consumers, into the enterprise. Read More   Micron ships Hybrid Memory Cube that boosts DRAM 15X Micron has begun shipping engineering samples of its new hybrid memory cube for high-performance computing and networking customers. It'll increase bandwidth on state-of-art DDR3 modules by as much as 15 times. Read More   WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Defining Data Services for Virtualizing and Automating IT To respond to rapid business environmental changes, enterprises are now adopting a more agile and services-oriented model for centralized IT, often characterized as "private cloud." Read this Evaluator Group paper to learn how HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage platforms can be foundational to developing IT agility. Learn more. New Verizon broadband router supports data and voice Verizon Wireless announced a new broadband router that works over its LTE network and allows voice and data connectivity for the home or small business. Read More   Google creates network for tech startups Google announced it is building a network for tech entrepreneurs in seven North American cities. Read More   Twitter partners with FEMA, Red Cross for emergency alerts feature Twitter wants to bolster its position as a go-to source of information during emergencies and other crises with a new notifications feature. Read More   Barbara Krasnoff: Jabra Supreme UC: A headset for both smartphones and Skype It's becoming more and more useful to have a "hands-off" headset for use with your smartphone -- and with your Internet-based phone system (such as Skype). The Jabra Supreme UC can handle both tasks at once. Read More   Twitter tries 'magic' to keep users in the know Did you not catch that tweet all your friends were talking about? Twitter wants you to see it next time, using a new feature that will notify you of tweets and contacts that Twitter thinks you'll want to know about. Read More   Wozniak expounds on his hacking shenanigans and online mischief In his keynote address at a security conference, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak admitted he has enjoyed many adventures in hacking often for the sake of pranks on friends and family, especially back in his college days and the early years of working on computers and the Internet. Read More   HP adds converged infrastructure smarts to servers Tapping into the immense powers of system automation, Hewlett-Packard has released an appliance that will streamline the management of large numbers of HP servers in a data center. Read More   Darlene Storm: FDA will regulate mobile apps that turn smartphones into medical devices The FDA will regulate mobile medical apps that can turn smartphones into a medical device. Although it hasn't yet received FDA approval, researchers have come up with implantable medical device security that combines touch-to-access with a heartbeat password. Read More
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