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	With Microsoft-Nokia deal, Stephen Elop's sitting pretty Microsoft's $7.2 billion deal to buy Nokia makes Nokia CEO Stephen Elop the frontrunner to lead Microsoft after Steve Ballmer departs, analysts said Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Data+ Conference Final Week to Register: Data+ Conference, Sept 8-10, Arizona Sessions Will Cover: optimizing and building big data strategies, implementing true, advanced analytics, leveraging mobile data and social media, building a secure and accessible data strategy, improving data visualization and reporting, integrating Hadoop and other open source technologies, and more. Register now. In this Issue Apple slates Sept. 10 event as new iPhone expectations grow Android 4.4 to be officially called KitKat Microsoft's Nokia acquisition is 'a necessary gamble,' analysts say Microsoft's Nokia deal could benefit rival mobile device vendors, analysts say Video: Microsoft to buy Nokia's handset business in $7B deal Twitter moves point to a timely IPO AMD to ship 64-bit ARM chips to server makers in 2014 Bluetooth innovator creates world's thinnest keyboard Verizon eyes combined wired-mobile services, won't go into Canada Darlene Storm: Phone attack can hijack calls and block texts sent to everyone in a city Preston Gralla: Did Nokia blackmail Microsoft into a sale by threatening to abandon Windows Phone? JR Raphael: Everything there is to know about Android 4.4, KitKat WEBCAST: Egnyte The Benefits of Hybrid Cloud Sharing Security. Scalability. Control. These are just some of the many benefits of enterprise cloud file-sharing that you'll discover in this KnowledgeVault, packed with short videos, white papers and demos. View Now! Apple slates Sept. 10 event as new iPhone expectations grow Apple will likely announce a new iPhone, and perhaps other new products, on Sept. 10, as fans of the company hunger for dazzling displays of innovation. Read More Android 4.4 to be officially called KitKat The next version of Android will be called KitKat after the Nestle chocolate bar, and not Key Lime Pie, as was predicted for months, Google said Tuesday. Read More Microsoft's Nokia acquisition is 'a necessary gamble,' analysts say Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia's Devices & Services business is a necessary gamble for the software company's future growth in mobile, and for Nokia an admission that it doesn't have enough resources to successfully compete with Samsung and Apple, according to analysts. Read More Microsoft's Nokia deal could benefit rival mobile device vendors, analysts say Microsoft's plan to buy Nokia's phone business and have a larger presence in hardware devices has so far brought little response from PC and smartphone vendors in Asia. But the deal could end up bringing dividends to Microsoft's long-time partners in the region by revitalizing the Windows ecosystem, according to analysts. Read More Video: Microsoft to buy Nokia's handset business in $7B deal Microsoft will acquire the cell phone business of Nokia in a deal that gives the American software company its best chance yet to break the dominance of Google and Apple in the smartphone market. Read More Twitter moves point to a timely IPO As rumors swirl that Twitter is gearing up for an initial public offering (IPO), industry analysts say the timing is right for such a move. 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. AMD to ship 64-bit ARM chips to server makers in 2014 Advanced Micro Devices will start shipping its first ARM server chips to manufacturers for testing in the first quarter of 2014, a company executive said on Tuesday. Read More Bluetooth innovator creates world's thinnest keyboard U.K.-based CSR and Inkjet Technology have collaborated to create a printable keyboard that is highly adaptable and just .49mm thick. Read More Verizon eyes combined wired-mobile services, won't go into Canada Verizon Wireless has no plans to expand into the Canadian mobile market, the head of its parent company said on Tuesday in the wake of a deal to bring all of the wireless subsidiary under Verizon Communications. Read More Darlene Storm: Phone attack can hijack calls and block texts sent to everyone in a city Security researchers hacked the firmware in Motorola phones to demonstrate new GSM cellular network targeted attacks capable of hijacking calls or texts sent to a specific victim. In “Let Me Answer That for You: Exploiting Broadcast Information in Cellular Networks,” they explained that if several phones were modified, then the hacked phones could launch denial of service attacks capable of blocking all calls and texts to a metropolitan area. Read More Preston Gralla: Did Nokia blackmail Microsoft into a sale by threatening to abandon Windows Phone? There are plenty of theories about why Microsoft is buying Nokia, but two analysts say that the real reason was that Nokia was soon going to end manufacturing Windows Phones. Are they on target, or have they been smoking something funny? Read More JR Raphael: Everything there is to know about Android 4.4, KitKat Forget Key Lime Pie: Google says the next version of Android will be Android 4.4, KitKat. So what do we actually know about this sweet-sounding release? Read More
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