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	Apple to uncover new iPads, including Retina Mini, on Oct. 22 Apple today issued invitations to an Oct. 22 event in San Francisco where analysts expect the company to reveal refreshed iPads. Read More   WHITE PAPER: BMC Software   A SaaS-First Approach to Application Portfolio Management Download this informative white paper to learn benefits of taking a SaaS-first approach to application portfolio management within ITSM. Learn More In this Issue Windows Phone 'phablet' update opens door to tablets Open letter to customers: 'You can continue to count on BlackBerry' Supreme Court shouldn't review NSA spying case, US gov't says Puppet users to get visual cues for troubleshooting systems Amazon working with HTC on smartphones Having fun with super-fast storage drives Sony starts U.S. sales of SmartWatch 2, and Xperia Z Ultra and Z1 smartphones European Space Agency to begin printing 3D parts for space flight Yahoo to encrypt webmail sessions by default starting in January Lavabit briefly allows users to recover their data Building blocks are snapping together virtually to handle big storage Salesforce delivers Identity to simplify herding of apps Backup starts to scale out along with storage, data growth New Twitter feature opens direct message floodgates Siemens Enterprise changes its name to Unify JR Raphael: How to customize Google's new Web app launcher Preston Gralla: Microsoft admits it blew naming the Surface RT, ignores bigger RT woes Jonny Evans: What to expect from Apple's October 22 Mac/iPad special event... WHITE PAPER: Salesforce.com   5 Steps to Better Sales Performance: How to Coach Your Team In 5 Steps to Better Sales Performance we reveal the proven methods the best sales managers rely on to close the sales performance gap between average performers and All-Stars. Download now. Read now! Windows Phone 'phablet' update opens door to tablets Microsoft's new update for Windows Phone 8 added support for larger phones and higher-resolution screens, a move analysts hoped would soon put the operating system onto small-sized tablets, a market Microsoft and its OEM partners have largely ignored. Read More   Open letter to customers: 'You can continue to count on BlackBerry' Troubled BlackBerry started the smartphone marathon race ahead of the pack years ago, but has fallen well behind as it faces 4,500 worker layoffs, a $1 billion write-off for unsold smartphones and the likelihood of being sold off in parts. Read More   Supreme Court shouldn't review NSA spying case, US gov't says A privacy group lacks legal standing to challenge a U.S. National Security Agency data collection program, and the U.S. Supreme Court doesn't have jurisdiction to grant the group's request for it to review the program's legality, lawyers for President Barack Obama's administration have argued. Read More   Puppet users to get visual cues for troubleshooting systems Puppet has added some visual pizzazz to its namesake open source IT automation software, providing a graphic event inspector for administrators to see at a glance where trouble spots in their systems reside. Read More   Amazon working with HTC on smartphones It appears that Amazon will eventually produce a smartphone -- the question is not if, but when. Read More   Having fun with super-fast storage drives In my role as multimedia content editor for IDG Enterprise, I find myself with lots of video footage, which takes up a ton of storage capacity. Backing up that footage to external storage drives can take a long time, especially if you're using older transfer technologies, such as USB 2.0. Fortunately, there are some faster devices and transfer connections now available, here are two recent drives (and a docking station) that can help speed up your personal file storage transfer dilemmas: Read More   Sony starts U.S. sales of SmartWatch 2, and Xperia Z Ultra and Z1 smartphones Sony Tuesday began selling its unlocked and waterproof Xperia Z Ultra and Xperia Z1 smartphones in the U.S., as well as its $200 SmartWatch 2. Read More   European Space Agency to begin printing 3D parts for space flight The European Space Agency (ESA) today kicked off a project to begin producing a number of complex, 3D printed metal parts for use in space and Earth. Read More   Yahoo to encrypt webmail sessions by default starting in January Yahoo will start encrypting the webmail sessions of its users in early 2014 by making https standard for all Yahoo Mail connections. Read More   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. Lavabit briefly allows users to recover their data Former users of the Lavabit encrypted email service that was shut down in August are being temporarily allowed to change their passwords and download copies of their data. Read More   Building blocks are snapping together virtually to handle big storage Easy expansion, lower costs and cloud-like internal services are common themes in storage today, and startup Coho Data is playing all three with a "micro-array" architecture that it's introducing on Tuesday. Read More   Salesforce delivers Identity to simplify herding of apps   Salesforce.com has delivered an identity product designed to let enterprises consolidate user authentication and application access control on a single tool. Read More   Backup starts to scale out along with storage, data growth Backup and recovery is starting to get some of the same capabilities as primary storage systems to handle the rising floods of data with less management overhead. Read More   New Twitter feature opens direct message floodgates If you keep a close eye on your Twitter settings, you probably noticed a new option pop up Monday night: "Receive direct messages from any follower." Read More   Siemens Enterprise changes its name to Unify Siemens Enterprise Communications has changed its name to Unify and now hopes to take advantage of a growing interest in hosted unified communications. Read More   JR Raphael: How to customize Google's new Web app launcher Google's new Web app launcher is everywhere -- and with a quick two-minute tweak, you can make it look and work any way you want. Read More   Preston Gralla: Microsoft admits it blew naming the Surface RT, ignores bigger RT woes Microsoft has finally admitted one part of the problem with its Surface RT strategy: Its naming caused "some confusion" among people who didn't understand the difference between the Surface and Surface RT. But there's a much bigger problem Microsoft refuses to face, one that likely dooms the RT platform to irrelevency. Read More   Jonny Evans: What to expect from Apple's October 22 Mac/iPad special event... Apple has despatched invitations to its much-hyped October 22 special event, with the smart money predicting new iPads, Macs and perhaps more from Cupertino next week. Read More
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