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	Apple's $900 million moment Apple has put a value on its decision to give away future OS X upgrades to all Mac users and offer the iWork and iLife suites for free to new Mac and iOS device buyers: $900 million. Read More   WHITE PAPER: PC Connection   Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) FAQs This FAQ document is focused on BYOD and it's challenges and impacts to current infrastructures. It also discusses available solutions from HP to support your BYOD strategy. Learn More. In this Issue Healthcare.gov blame game goes on at House hearing Twitter kicks off pre-IPO investor roadshow Smartphone growth still racing ahead at record pace Mavericks rushes onto Macs as uptake easily beats predecessor to 10% mark Security concerns prompt subpoena for Healthcare.gov data Google+ popularity jumps with 540M monthly users Long shot? Apple could grow Mac share to 20% Infosys says its use of B-1 visas was legitimate Nokia sold 8.8M Lumia smartphones in Q3 Citrix's XenMobile 8.6 to offer one-touch entry into mobile GoToMeeting Lawmakers introduce bill to rein in NSA telephone records program Dell's deal to go private complete, no change in product plans Record bitcoin payment of $1 million spent on new mining hardware Big data needs more than Hadoop, says Facebook exec Google's putting the finishing touches on a Google Now smartwatch ARM delivers first 16-core Mali GPU design Preston Gralla: Can Nokia's blowout quarter of Lumia sales save Windows Phone? Jonny Evans: The Big Picture around Apple's 4K Mac Pro plan JR Raphael: Google and Motorola: Aha! It's all starting to make sense WHITE PAPER: Mitel Networks   How to Choose the Right Unified Communications Solution When it comes to unified communications, there's a lot of confusion in the marketplace. The term itself can be confusing, as are the various features within its scope—encompassing any and every aspect of the communications continuum. . Learn More Healthcare.gov blame game goes on at House hearing A federal official directly responsible for Healthcare.gov appeared Wednesday to blame a "subset" of contractors for the website's problems. In doing so, the government was refuting contractor claims that the Website's problems are the government's fault. Read More   Twitter kicks off pre-IPO investor roadshow Twitter kicked off its pre-IPO roadshow, meeting with potential investors and touting the social network's ability to democratize users' voices and the power of instantly sharing information with the world. Read More   Smartphone growth still racing ahead at record pace Smartphone shipments grew by 9% in the third quarter, a record for a single quarter, which continues a record-setting trend, research firm IDC said Tuesday. Read More   Mavericks rushes onto Macs as uptake easily beats predecessor to 10% mark Five days after its release, Apple's new OS X Mavericks had accumulated more usage share than the predecessor Mountain Lion did in five weeks, an ad network claimed today. Read More   Security concerns prompt subpoena for Healthcare.gov data   A U.S. House committee chairman, citing security concerns, today ordered a Healthcare.gov contractor to provide detailed information about its work on the project. Read More   Google+ popularity jumps with 540M monthly users Google announced a number of enhancements to its social media platform Google+ and said the number of monthly active users on Google+ jumped from 390 million in May to 540 million users today. Read More   Long shot? Apple could grow Mac share to 20% Apple has a shot at growing the Mac's share of all personal computers even as total shipments of desktops and notebooks continue to contract, an analyst argued today. Read More   Infosys says its use of B-1 visas was legitimate Indian outsourcer Infosys said its use of B-1 visas in the U.S. was for legitimate business purposes and was not designed to circumvent the requirements of the H-1B visa program. Read More   Nokia sold 8.8M Lumia smartphones in Q3 Nokia once again sold a record number of Lumia smartphones during the third quarter, helping the company narrow its net loss. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Adopt SDNs without Losing Network Control Riverbed Technology and VMware have joined forces to help address these problems and make it easy to deploy and manage VXLAN overlay networks in highly virtualized data centers. Learn more. Citrix's XenMobile 8.6 to offer one-touch entry into mobile GoToMeeting Citrix today said its upcoming XenMobile v8.6 will give users single sign-on access to Citrix Worx mobile applications and allow them to enter GoToMeetings by simply selecting a calendar entry. Read More   Lawmakers introduce bill to rein in NSA telephone records program A bipartisan group of more than 85 lawmakers has introduced legislation to end the U.S. National Security Agency's broad collection of U.S. telephone records by imposing new restrictions on who the agency can target. Read More   Dell's deal to go private complete, no change in product plans A deal to buy out Dell was completed on Tuesday, officially taking the company private. Read More   Record bitcoin payment of $1 million spent on new mining hardware Bitpay, a company that lets businesses accept payments in the Bitcoin virtual currency, has just processed its first US$1 million transaction. Read More   Big data needs more than Hadoop, says Facebook exec The Hadoop programming framework may be synonymous with the big data movement but it's not the only tool companies need to derive insights from massive stores of unstructured information, according to Facebook analytics chief Ken Rudin. Read More   Google's putting the finishing touches on a Google Now smartwatch Lucky technophiles who get in on the next production round of Google Glass may soon be able to pick up a Googley wristwatch to go with it. A new report says Google is very close to producing its own Android-based smartwatch, following Samsung's roll out of the Galaxy Gear earlier in October. And unlike Samsung's multipurpose wrist rider, Google's watch will reportedly center around delivering Google Now updates. Read More   ARM delivers first 16-core Mali GPU design ARM has released designs for two new Mali GPU cores, including a 16-core part that should help bring higher-end capabilities like video-editing and gesture recognition to mobile devices. Read More   Preston Gralla: Can Nokia's blowout quarter of Lumia sales save Windows Phone? Nokia sold a record number of Lumia Windows Phones in the third quarter, including a nearly 400% jump in sales in the U.S. and North America. Is that enough to save Windows Phone, or is Microsoft's smartphone platform doomed to fail? Read More   Jonny Evans: The Big Picture around Apple's 4K Mac Pro plan Apple's soon to ship Mac Pro and 4K-savvy Final Cut are just part of the company's plans to nurture a higher-resolution future for the video and broadcast industries, the industry is responding, but consumers hold the key. Here's why: Read More   JR Raphael: Google and Motorola: Aha! It's all starting to make sense Little by little, Google's giving us clues about its big-picture plans for Motorola -- and the company's goals are looking far more ambitious than we initially suspected. Read More
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