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	Apple drops iPad 2, inserts 4th-gen Retina iPad into $399 price slot Apple today replaced the iPad 2 with 2012's fourth-generation Retina iPad as its lowest-priced tablet, a likely reaction to both pressure from cheap Android tablets and the advanced age of the iPad 2. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM IBM SmartCloud for Social Business Mobility Combining the power of cloud computing with the freedom and functionality of mobile devices can give enterprises access to a wide range of key benefits, including increased reliability, real-time updates and access to applications that embrace and cultivate the spirit of collaboration and community. Read Now In this Issue Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Office for iPad: Big deal, or big yawn? Talk is not cheap: Microsoft adds $23B to market cap on rumors of Office for iPad Tim Cook's approval ranking climbs one spot in top-50 CEO list Microsoft's free OneNote vaults to top of Mac App Store chart Apple discounts iPhone 5C 8%-9% in five markets via storage cuts Fake Tor app has been sitting in Apple's App Store for months, Tor Project says Are Apple and Gartner Afraid of Analytics? Jonny Evans: OS X Mavericks: Troubleshooting Bluetooth device connections Richi Jennings: Apple trolls net-neutrality fans, waves cash at Comcast Jonny Evans: Apple and Google are chasing a 35-year smartwatch dream Preston Gralla: Will Office for the iPad really bring Microsoft billions? Jonny Evans: Tips to help you become an iOS 7 Mail power user Preston Gralla: 3 reasons Microsoft will release Office for the iPad Jonny Evans: Quick guide: Upgrading older Intel Macs WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Strengthening the Role of Storage in the Dynamic Data Center This paper helps to provide a realistic foundation for considerations for leveraging storage clouds in a manner appropriate to the requirements of the mainframe applications that support critical business processes. Learn more! Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Office for iPad: Big deal, or big yawn? DEK: Flop or not? Users will soon decide whether Office for the iPad is the greatest thing since Flappy Birds or the next Microsoft Kin. What's a Kin, you ask? Exactly. Read More Talk is not cheap: Microsoft adds $23B to market cap on rumors of Office for iPad Microsoft's share price cracked $40, setting an 11-year high in trading on Thursday. Read More Tim Cook's approval ranking climbs one spot in top-50 CEO list Even as Apple CEO Tim Cook is blasted by some investors for not being the next Steve Jobs, the company's employees boosted his approval rating to the 17th spot on an annual ranking of the top U.S. chief executives. Read More Microsoft's free OneNote vaults to top of Mac App Store chart Microsoft's OneNote jumped to the top of the free application chart on Apple's Mac App Store shortly after its Monday launch. Read More Apple discounts iPhone 5C 8%-9% in five markets via storage cuts Apple today unveiled an 8GB iPhone 5C that costs between 8% and 9% less than the previous lowest-priced model with 16GB of storage space. Read More Fake Tor app has been sitting in Apple's App Store for months, Tor Project says For the past several months Tor developers have unsuccessfully been trying to convince Apple to remove from its iOS App Store what they believe to be a fake and potentially malicious Tor Browser application. Read More Are Apple and Gartner Afraid of Analytics? In theory, analytics should help firms make key business decisions. In practice, companies ignore analytics because it's likely to tell them the bad news they don't want to hear. This week, the actions of Gartner and Apple illustrated this point to CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle. Read More WEBCAST: CDW Mobile Apps and Devices Slash Customer Cycle Time Consolidated Engineering Laboratories' field employees used to collect data on triplicate forms that were sometimes hard to read and difficult to manage. After procuring iPad devices from CDW and integrating mobile apps with back office systems, the company boosted productivity and reduced their customer cycle time by as much as 7X! View Now Jonny Evans: OS X Mavericks: Troubleshooting Bluetooth device connections If you are suffering poor performance from your Bluetooth mouse, keyboard or other devices, then follow these steps to understand the problem. Read More Richi Jennings: Apple trolls net-neutrality fans, waves cash at Comcast Apple and Comcast, sitting in a tree. F. C. C. B. A. I. T. I. N. G. (even Chris is upset). Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) are in talks to get 'round network-neutrality rules, it's said. Apple's secret new Internet streaming TV service would supposedly do an end-run around Comcast's FCC consent agreement, by pretending that it wasn't really on the Internet at all. Of course, it could all be a malicious rumor. But... y'know... it's Monday. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers stick it to The Man. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple and Google are chasing a 35-year smartwatch dream Way back in December 1979 LA's Windert Watch Company announced the first smartwatch, and much of what it thought then suggests what we are looking forward to from Apple, Motorola and others today. Read More Preston Gralla: Will Office for the iPad really bring Microsoft billions? There have been esimates that when Microsoft releases Office for the iPad, likely later this month, it could end up bringing in billions of additional dollars to Microsoft's coffers. Is that hype and overkill, it will it really bring that much to Microsoft's bottom line? Read More Jonny Evans: Tips to help you become an iOS 7 Mail power user In this article you'll learn how to use Mail on iOS 7 more effectively when working on projects. Read More Preston Gralla: 3 reasons Microsoft will release Office for the iPad The long-running debate over whether Microsoft will release a version of Office for the iPad should soon be over. It's now clear that a version of Office for the iPad is on the way. Here are three reasons to expect it. Read More Jonny Evans: Quick guide: Upgrading older Intel Macs These suggestions should help you tweak a little extra usable life out of your older Mac. Read More
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