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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   RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Argent What's the biggest bottleneck in VMware? Do more CPUs improve VMware?    Using VMware NIC Teaming?    Does TCP/IP affect VMware? (You'll be surprised)    Get this essential FREE white paper now     11 pages of technical details, not sales fluff In this Issue Android, Windows Phone grow in smartphone share, while iPhone drops JR Raphael: Android 4.4, KitKat: The poise and the polish Once-pilloried Apple Maps gets the last laugh Days after IPO, Twitter launches custom timelines Facebook forces some users to reset passwords because of Adobe data breach Google adds more shortcuts to Gmail Update: AT&T and Verizon won't charge for Philippines disaster calls and texts OK, Google Glass, play music for users Turn down that damn music! Chrome 32 debuts noxious, noisy tabs signals Moto G may help Motorola gain Web traffic in race with HTC smartphones Short-distance wireless NFC and Bluetooth groups getting cozy Motorola faces challenges in going global with the Moto G Preston Gralla: 6 reasons Tony Bates should be the next Microsoft CEO WHITE PAPER: Salesforce.com   5 Secrets: Build your Sales Pipeline and Keep It Growing The typical strategy for meeting sales targets is to set aggressive individual rep quotas, rely on your top reps to achieve them, and then hope to get enough from the rest of your team to get over the top. Read now! 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   JR Raphael: Android 4.4, KitKat: The poise and the polish Google's Android 4.4 KitKat release packs plenty of significant changes, but the software also includes quite a few subtle enhancements that you may not have yet noticed. Read More   Once-pilloried Apple Maps gets the last laugh Even after its extraordinary rough start last year, Apple Maps was used by nearly six out of every 10 U.S. iPhone owners during September, according to data recently published by metrics firm comScore. Read More   Days after IPO, Twitter launches custom timelines Twitter users will be able to create custom timelines in TweetDeck around conversation on any event or topic on Twitter, the microblogging company said. Read More   Facebook forces some users to reset passwords because of Adobe data breach Facebook locked some users out of their accounts after determining that their log-in credentials were exposed as a result of a security breach at Adobe. The company is asking users who used the same log-in credentials for Adobe's online services and Facebook to verify their identity and change their password. Read More   Google adds more shortcuts to Gmail In its ongoing efforts to simplify Gmail's inbox management, Google has rolled out more buttons to let people perform common actions without having to open messages. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology The Importance of Performance Monitoring in the Midmarket Midmarket organizations are transforming their IT infrastructure to better accommodate the needs of the business. Two major pieces of this transformation are virtualization and cloud computing, which rely heavily on network performance to ensure success. View Now Update: AT&T and Verizon won't charge for Philippines disaster calls and texts AT&T said Tuesday it is not going to charge its wireless customers for calls and texts from the U.S. to the Philippines through Nov. 30 to help with the relief efforts following Typhoon Haiyan. Read More   OK, Google Glass, play music for users Google is adding music features for the first time to its wearable computer, Glass. Read More   Turn down that damn music! Chrome 32 debuts noxious, noisy tabs signals Google yesterday released a beta of Chrome 32 that includes an aggressive malware blocking filter it touted two weeks ago and a "noisy tabs" feature. Read More   Moto G may help Motorola gain Web traffic in race with HTC smartphones Web usage in North America by Motorola smartphone users is closing in on HTC for second place behind Samsung, according to Chitika Insights, which samples millions of online ad impressions to reach its conclusions Read More   Short-distance wireless NFC and Bluetooth groups getting cozy Short-distance wireless groups supporting NFC and Bluetooth have agreed to jointly create greater interoperability between the complementary technologies. Read More   Motorola faces challenges in going global with the Moto G   The Moto G smartphone expected from Motorola on Wednesday will likely be available outside the U.S., but competing in the increasingly tough mid-range segment globally won't be easy. Read More   Preston Gralla: 6 reasons Tony Bates should be the next Microsoft CEO Of the rumored potential replacements for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, there's one who is clearly the best bet: former Skype CEO and current Microsoft Executive Vice President Tony Bates. Here are six reasons he'd be the best choice. Read More
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