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	Apple springs Retina iPad Mini on customers Apple today sprung the Retina iPad Mini on customers, kicking off online sales of the smaller tablet that it introduced last month. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Customer Profile: First National Technology Solutions To help improve client satisfaction and enable business growth, FNTS chose a best-in-class cloud infrastructure in order to provide clients with an array of hosted and remote managed IT services. Learn More In this Issue How Apple is playing hardball with Microsoft Apple tries to calm stormy iWork waters with pledge to restore 18 features Claims surface that Apple will follow Samsung, LG into curved smartphone screens Android, Windows Phone grow in smartphone share, while iPhone drops Apple brings 'warrant canary' into Patriot Act info request coal mine Apple reports on U.S. data demands, claims privacy is paramount A huge damage award looms as Apple and Samsung return to court iPhone 5s boost Apple market share in China, but Samsung still leads Superbug tracking app hits top medical spot in Apple's App Store Apple's Siri chief now building connected device platform at Samsung Jonny Evans: How to: Restore iWork for OS X Maverick's missing features Jonny Evans: Apple's new Macs: make or break for PC sales Jonny Evans: 12 great Christmas gifts for Apple's iPad, iPhone Richi Jennings: Will iPhone 6 be a curved phablet? Some say so (to compete with Samsung) Jonny Evans: High-end US smartphone buyers 5x more likely to pick Apple over Samsung Jonny Evans: Apple working with WD on OS X Mavericks data loss disaster Jonny Evans: The deification of Apple's Steve Jobs continues WHITE PAPER: CDW Cloud Storage and Backup The proliferation of cloud computing options has begun to change the way storage is thought about, procured and used. IT managers and departments need to think through how cloud options might fit into and complement their onsite data infrastructures. Read Now How Apple is playing hardball with Microsoft Tucked in amongst Apple's several hardware debuts last month was word that the company will stop charging for OS X and iWork. Why is Apple willing to forgo this small revenue stream? How might it affect IT buyers? The move is interesting on several fronts. Read More Apple tries to calm stormy iWork waters with pledge to restore 18 features Apple today responded to complaints from Mac users over features dumped from iWork, promising to restore 18 of them to the productivity suite in the next six months. Read More Claims surface that Apple will follow Samsung, LG into curved smartphone screens Apple's iPhone 5S and 5C have been on the market just seven weeks, but talk has already begun of what the Cupertino, Calif., company may have lined up for 2014's fall schedule. Read More Android, Windows Phone grow in smartphone share, while iPhone drops Android grew to 81% of all smartphones shipped globally in the third quarter, while Apple's iPhones slipped to 12.9% compared to 14.4% a year ago, according to IDC. Read More Apple brings 'warrant canary' into Patriot Act info request coal mine Apple received kudos yesterday for inserting a 'warrant canary' in its first transparency report on government information requests. Read More Apple reports on U.S. data demands, claims privacy is paramount Apple on Tuesday provided a report on how much data on users governments have demanded from the company, and sought to set itself apart from Silicon Valley competitors whose businesses are built on amassing personal data. Read More A huge damage award looms as Apple and Samsung return to court The battle between Apple and Samsung over smartphone design returns to a Silicon Valley courtroom next week as the companies fight over how much Samsung should pay for infringement of five Apple patents in 13 of its smartphones. Read More iPhone 5s boost Apple market share in China, but Samsung still leads With the arrival of the iPhone 5s, Apple regained its spot among the top five smartphone makers in China during the third quarter. Read More WHITE PAPER: Innotas The Tao of IT Portfolio Management Lessons from the Tao Te Ching are Universal, meant to help us navigate the right path to personal and spiritual enlightenment. They work for IT too. This brand new eBook from Innotas will help you discover the ten most important steps to strategic, competitive, and financial enlightenment across your IT portfolio. Read here to learn more. Read now! Superbug tracking app hits top medical spot in Apple's App Store A new app that tracks where antibacterial resistant superbugs are growing has become a favorite among physicians with more than 100,000 downloads in less than a month. Read More Apple's Siri chief now building connected device platform at Samsung The engineer who oversaw development of Apple's Siri technology is now at Samsung building an online service for linking together the "Internet of things." Read More Jonny Evans: How to: Restore iWork for OS X Maverick's missing features Apple has a communication problem: it knew the latest iteration of iWork was only a starting point, but when it introduced the software was heavy on the hype, leaving users disappointed. Here's what to do if you want those features back Read More Jonny Evans: Apple's new Macs: make or break for PC sales There's a lot riding on the success of Apple's latest Macs -- they're the company's best hope to regain momentum in the PC market, even as that sector continues its decline. Read More Jonny Evans: 12 great Christmas gifts for Apple's iPad, iPhone "'Tis the season," apparently, so I've assembled a dozen great gifts for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users. To make this collection a little more interesting I've tried to select a few items you may never have seen before. Read More Richi Jennings: Will iPhone 6 be a curved phablet? Some say so (to compete with Samsung) And we're even told the iPhone 6 release date. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is rumored to be testing new iPhones with large, curved screens. It's unusual to be reading rumors of the next iPhone so soon, but this one seems to come from a credible organ -- Bloomberg. Mind you, it's only sourced from one person, so you do the math. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder the 5.5-inch iPhablet. Read More Jonny Evans: High-end US smartphone buyers 5x more likely to pick Apple over Samsung US smartphone shoppers seeking a high-end device are around five times more likely to buy an Apple iPhone in preference to a comparable Samsung device, Samsung suggested today. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple working with WD on OS X Mavericks data loss disaster Western Digital (WD) has confirmed it is working with Apple [AAPL] to address a OS X Mavericks-related bug that's wiping out data stored on some external drives, saying: "the occurrence rate of this event has been very low". Read on for what else we now know about this strange bug. Read More Jonny Evans: The deification of Apple's Steve Jobs continues The deificationof Steve Jobs continues. The Apple co-founder was inducted into the Bay Area Business Hall of Fame last week during an event that focused on the warm and cuddly side of the tech impresario. Read More
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