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	Cook admits Apple blew the call on the iPhone 5C Apple sold a record 51 million iPhones in the fourth quarter of 2013, but acknowledged it underestimated the appeal of the flagship iPhone 5S, making some analysts question the company's two-model strategy. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Premier 100 IT Leadership Conference How are the top IT 100 leaders transforming their companies? Learn how the most innovative IT leaders are retooling their organizations for today's business models. Go beyond theories, gaining practical strategies you can use to reinvent yourself and your enterprise for what's ahead. Get hands-on, developing actionable innovation and leadership plans in "Transformation Studio" sessions led by top CIOs. Join us for this premier, two-day event at the JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort & Spa in Tucson, Arizona. Register now for just $595 and SAVE $600. In this Issue 24 milestones in the Mac's 30-year history Apple edges back toward the data center Mac sales jump 19% when compared to terrible Q4 2012 Apple sold 51M iPhones last quarter, touts $57.6B in revenue Apple's iPod business collapses as revenue becomes a rounding error iFixit celebrates Mac's 30th by turning an '84 antique inside out Apple to fix iOS 7 crash bug Apple plans to add mobile-payments offering How about them apples: Google and Samsung ink patent deal Icahn targets eBay, pans Apple board on same day Calif. court rules Samsung infringed Apple patent ahead of trial Samsung's Apple damages equal to just 16 days' profit Jonny Evans: Apple's Macintosh: 30 years doomed Jonny Evans: Apple and Google want your body Richi Jennings: Apple iPhone 6 rumors rounded up by Richi: Phablets ahoy! Jonny Evans: Quick guide: Take control of autocorrect on iPad, iPhone Jonny Evans: Wall Street's reality distortion field to Apple's results WEBCAST: IBM Corporation Solving the Big Data Challenge of Sensor Data This webcast will focus on sensor data applications and IBM's differentiated offering to solve the IT challenges of sensor data for better business insight and competitive advantage. Highlights include unique attributes of sensor data and the big data challenges they present. View Now 24 milestones in the Mac's 30-year history Today marks the 30th anniversary of the arrival of the now-iconic Apple Macintosh computer. Columnist Ryan Faas looks back over the past three decades at some of the highlights and lowlights of the Mac's -- and Apple's -- evolution. Read More Apple edges back toward the data center Now that OS X Mavericks Server has some new enterprise-oriented features and the updated Mac Pro has finally arrived, it's time to ask whether Apple is edging back into the data center, says columnist Ryan Faas. Read More Mac sales jump 19% when compared to terrible Q4 2012 Mac sales jumped 19% in the fourth quarter of 2013 over the year before, the first uptick in more than a year, Apple said Monday. Read More Apple sold 51M iPhones last quarter, touts $57.6B in revenue Apple set two records for itself in the first quarter of its 2014 fiscal year, selling 51 million iPhones and reporting revenue of US$57.6 billion, with a net profit of $13.1 billion. Read More Apple's iPod business collapses as revenue becomes a rounding error Apple's iPod business collapsed last quarter, with revenue plummeting 55% and the number of music players dropping by more than half compared to the same period the year before. Read More iFixit celebrates Mac's 30th by turning an '84 antique inside out To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Apple's launch of its original Macintosh personal computer, the do-it-yourself iFixit website today tore apart the beige all-in-one to find out what was inside. Read More Apple to fix iOS 7 crash bug Apple says it will fix a bug in the iOS 7 operating system that has caused some iPhones to crash. Read More Apple plans to add mobile-payments offering Apple is making internal and external moves to expand its ability to handle mobile payments, stepping more deeply into a market where rivals would include PayPal, Google and niche specialists like Square and Stripe, according to The Wall Street Journal. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Six Characteristics of an Effective Solution Get best practices and real-world examples for using a data delivery system that works with your workload automation solution in this white paper. Learn More! How about them apples: Google and Samsung ink patent deal Google and Samsung have signed a "global patent cross-license agreement" that covers the companies' existing patents and future ones over the next 10 years. Read More Icahn targets eBay, pans Apple board on same day Investment agitator Carl Icahn has now put his sights on auctioneer eBay, but that doesn't mean he will end his pursuit of a massive stock buyback by Apple, an analyst said today. Read More Calif. court rules Samsung infringed Apple patent ahead of trial A court in California has ruled that Samsung Electronics infringed in its devices an Apple patent on word recommendations during text input, ahead of a March trial. Read More Samsung's Apple damages equal to just 16 days' profit The $930 million in damages Samsung was ordered to pay Apple last year for infringing its smartphone patents is more than some device makers earn in a year, but for Samsung it's equal to just over 16 days' worth of profit. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple's Macintosh: 30 years doomed Apple's Mac turns 30 today. Apple's Website today celebrates the platform that defined and revolutionized the PC -- despite being "doomed" since it began. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple and Google want your body The next battleground in the unyielding Apple versus Google war will be health, as the two tech giants push their vision of wearable computing into the sector -- and both firms want your body, as well as your mind. Read More Richi Jennings: Apple iPhone 6 rumors rounded up by Richi: Phablets ahoy! iPhone 5S still too small, supposedly. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is expected to launch the iPhone 6 later this year. And it's going to be big. Literally. The deep-throated rumor-mongers are saying that there'll be two models, both with bigger screens than today's units. We're also hearing that Cupertino is ditching the plastic (again). In IT Blogwatch, bloggers realize that iPhone-release-rumor season is upon up once more. Read More Jonny Evans: Quick guide: Take control of autocorrect on iPad, iPhone "**** autocorrect!" If this thought crosses your mind frequently, reader, then I hope you get something from this quick guide to making autocorrect on iPhone, iPad work a little better for you... Read More Jonny Evans: Wall Street's reality distortion field to Apple's results The reaction to Apple's record results announcement last night shows that if Wall Street ran the planet the planet would be in a mess -- which, unfortunately, it actually is. Read More
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