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	Samsung unveils Galaxy Gear smartwatch After several months of speculation and a few weeks of hype, the first smartwatch from the world's number one smartphone maker was launched on Wednesday at the IFA electronics show in Berlin. Read More   WEBCAST: IBM Corporation   Make your business smarter with cloud-based analytics Learn how sales, finance, investment, risk, marketing, and procurement leaders are using SaaS-based business analytics to become more agile, serve the customer better, and deliver business results. Learn More. In this Issue Samsung's smartwatch panned as a limited, 'overpriced toy' Smartphone shipments to hit 1B -- up 40% -- in 2013 Update: Hynix plant fires leave memory shipments on hold HDMI 2.0 released with up to 18Gbps bandwidth, 32 audio channels Google set to launch Glass app store Hands on: Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch Samsung's Note 3 has bigger screen, better performance in lighter package Hands on: Samsung's Galaxy Note 3 IFA 2013: Sony unveils Xperia Z1 Apache Cassandra 2.0 brings the old school SQL functionality Two sentenced to prison for point-of-sale credit card theft Microsoft continues cloud ERP push with Dynamics NAV update Sony's flagship Z1 smartphone boasts high-spec camera Asus announces new Fonepad and Memo Pad tablets Panasonic launches its first 4K TV, teases arrival of 20-in. 4K tablet Antone Gonsalves: With Nokia, Microsoft ready to raise stakes on mobile security Jonny Evans: Apple's new iPhones will disappoint, but that's OK John W. Thompson: TAP into the light Preston Gralla: Microsoft expects $45 billion annually in revenue from Nokia deal 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 Samsung's smartwatch panned as a limited, 'overpriced toy'   Early reaction to Samsung's new Galaxy Gear smartwatch, announced Wednesday in Berlin, was decidedly downbeat if not downright negative. Read More   Smartphone shipments to hit 1B -- up 40% -- in 2013 Sub-$200 smartphones and robust sales of smartphones in emerging countries are driving a rebound in the worldwide mobile phone market this year, IDC said Wednesday. Read More   Update: Hynix plant fires leave memory shipments on hold   The Korean press reports that a fire in Hynix's fabrication plants 1 and 2 in China may put DRAM shipments on hold for the foreseeable future. Hynix is responsible for about 30% of the world's DRAM production. Read More   HDMI 2.0 released with up to 18Gbps bandwidth, 32 audio channels Version 2.0 of the HDMI specification offers a significant increase in bandwidth to support new features such as 4K (2160p), which has four times the clarity of 1080p resolution. Read More   Google set to launch Glass app store Google is ramping up plans to open an app store focused solely on Google Glass, the computerized eyeglasses expected to launch in 2014. Read More   Hands on: Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch Samsung's Galaxy Gear is here, launched on Wednesday at Germany's IFA electronics show. Read More   Samsung's Note 3 has bigger screen, better performance in lighter package Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Note 3 has faster processors, a bigger screen with better resolution, and more RAM than its predecessor, yet it is thinner and lighter. Read More   Hands on: Samsung's Galaxy Note 3 It's the IFA electronics show in Berlin so that means it's time for Samsung to launch a new Note, one of its large-screened smartphones. Read More   IFA 2013: Sony unveils Xperia Z1 Sony CEO Kaz Hirai unveils the Xperia Z1 smartphone at a news conference in Berlin on September 4, 2013. Read More   WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation   VMware Horizon View and EMC VSPEX Take the Easy Route to Next Generation Virtual Desktops. Learn how VSPEX with End User Computing Transforms Central Vermont Medical Center IT from Problem Solver to Business Enabler. Learn More. Apache Cassandra 2.0 brings the old school SQL functionality The Apache Cassandra NoSQL distributed data store continues to accumulate features that mimic traditional databases, with the newly released version 2 of the open source software offering triggers, lightweight transactions and an updated query language similar to SQL. Read More   Two sentenced to prison for point-of-sale credit card theft Two Romanian men were sentenced Wednesday to serve prison sentences for remotely hacking into hundreds of U.S. merchants' computers and stealing payment card data, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Read More   Microsoft continues cloud ERP push with Dynamics NAV update Microsoft is preparing to roll out a new version of its Dynamics NAV ERP software that includes a key feature for cloud-based deployments as well as tighter integration with Office. Read More   Sony's flagship Z1 smartphone boasts high-spec camera   Sony is hoping the world's smartphone users place a premium on photography and perhaps have a problem keeping their phones dry. Read More   Asus announces new Fonepad and Memo Pad tablets Asustek on Wednesday announced new tablets with different screen sizes, adding new 6-inch and 7-inch models to its Fonepad lineup and also two new 8- and 10-inch Memo Pad tablets. Read More   Panasonic launches its first 4K TV, teases arrival of 20-in. 4K tablet Panasonic on Wednesday announced the company's first 4K TV, which allows users to play content from a USB drive or the Internet, and briefly showed its Windows 8-based, 20-inch 4K tablet. Read More   Antone Gonsalves: With Nokia, Microsoft ready to raise stakes on mobile security While the Nokia acquistion would give Microsoft what it needs to surpass rivals in the mobile enterprise market, the jury is out on whether the company is up to the task of delivering on the security and needed software integration. Read More   Jonny Evans: Apple's new iPhones will disappoint, but that's OK   Appe seems set to introduce new iPhones at a special event on September 10, but whatever it brings us at that show will inevitably disappoint, as the pre-release hype generates a bubble of impossible expectation. Read More   John W. Thompson: TAP into the light Deploying TAPs in the optical networks of the modern data center is a topic of heated debate. TAPs have been common in the TCP/IP world for more than a decade, where they are deployed to provide network access to packet brokers, intrusion detection and security solutions, and performance management solutions. Although their use is recognized as a best practice by industry leaders and analysts alike, the full understanding of the benefits that TAPs enable has not yet reached the same level of maturity it has in the broader networking world. Read More   Preston Gralla: Microsoft expects $45 billion annually in revenue from Nokia deal Talk about strategy and synergy all you want, but Microsoft's Nokia buyout is primarily about one thing: Big revenue. The company claims that it expects to get somewhere around $45 billion a year in revenue by 2018 from it. Is that number real, or is someone cooking the books? Read More
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