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	Apple cuts MacBook Air prices, sells its first under-$900 laptop Apple today refreshed its MacBook Air line-up, dropping prices by $100 on all four stock models. Read More   WHITE PAPER: SAS Unlocking the Promise of Demand Sensing & Shaping Many organizations have limited insight into big data. These limitations have significant opportunity costs and can have a negative effect on identifying and understanding customer demand patterns and related supply constraints. This paper explains how the use of advanced analytical techniques and big data can enhance supply chain networks. Learn more In this Issue The data center of 2025 revealed Sprint unveils HTC One (M8) with exclusive audio perks Gogo's stock crashes after AT&T unveils in-flight LTE network plans As wearables catch on, Amazon cashes in with new online store World's thinnest nanowires may lead to foldable tablets, smartphones Siemens patches Heartbleed flaw in popular SCADA system Supreme Court asked to limit mobile phone searches It's time for justice, says Apple in $2B case against Samsung Oracle adds OpenStack to updated Solaris Acer's Switch 10 puts a new spin on hybrid design DeRodes steps into breach as Target's new CIO Samsung touts mobile security to IT execs Acer's first wearable is a smartband SAP's Ariba to get an in-memory energy boost with Hana JR Raphael: Will 'Android Silver' be a good thing for consumers? That depends Preston Gralla: Microsoft loses money on every Surface it sells -- $300 million in total and counting Barbara Krasnoff: Acer goes for affordable in its new laptop lineup WHITE PAPER: Box Review: Box beats Dropbox – and all the rest – for business Box trumps Dropbox, Engyte, Citrix ShareFile, EMC Syncplicity, and OwnCloud with rich mix of file sync, file sharing, user management, deep reporting and enterprise integration. Learn more in this article from InfoWorld. Learn more>> The data center of 2025 revealed A survey that challenged IT managers to imagine the data center of 2025 offers up some optimistic, even surprising, findings. Read More   Sprint unveils HTC One (M8) with exclusive audio perks Sprint doubled down on high quality smartphone sound on Tuesday by introducing an exclusive version of the HTC One (M8) featuring HD Audio sound. Read More   Gogo's stock crashes after AT&T unveils in-flight LTE network plans In-flight Wi-Fi provider Gogo's stock took a drubbing after AT&T yesterday announced plans for a new air-to-ground LTE service that will surely compete against Gogo, at least in the continental U.S. Read More   As wearables catch on, Amazon cashes in with new online store Amazon.com launched a Wearable Technology online store on Tuesday, another testament to the growing interest in smartwatches and other wearable gear. Read More   World's thinnest nanowires may lead to foldable tablets, smartphones A researcher at Vanderbilt University has created a way to build nanowires just three atoms wide that should help scientists eventually create paper-thin, flexible tablets smartphones. Read More   Siemens patches Heartbleed flaw in popular SCADA system   Siemens released a security update to address the Heartbleed vulnerability in SIMATIC WinCC Open Architecture, a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system that's used in a large number of industries to operate processes, machines and production flows. Read More   Supreme Court asked to limit mobile phone searches Police shouldn't be able to search suspects' mobile phones at the time of arrest because of the huge amounts of private information now stored on those devices, lawyers for two criminal defendants argued before U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday. Read More   It's time for justice, says Apple in $2B case against Samsung Samsung deliberately copied several key iPhone features in an attempt to catch up in the phone market, Apple charged as it wrapped up a jury trial against Samsung in San Jose on Tuesday. Read More   WHITE PAPER: SAS See the Possibilities Utilizing Data Visualization Regardless of size, today's businesses are bombarded with structured and unstructured data from a variety of sources. Take advantage of all this data with in-memory analytics and data visualization techniques, to get day-to-day insights for making better decisions. Learn more Oracle adds OpenStack to updated Solaris Oracle has gotten cloud religion. Read More   Acer's Switch 10 puts a new spin on hybrid design Acer has given a fresh look to detachable hybrids with its magnetic Aspire Switch 10 tablet, which it showed off at an event Tuesday, where it also demonstrated what it says is the fastest Chromebook yet. Read More   DeRodes steps into breach as Target's new CIO Target has named veteran IT executive Bob DeRodes as its CIO and is tasking him with taking the $73 billion retailer in a new technology direction following the mammoth data breach that it disclosed late last year. The breach resulted in information being stolen from 70 million payment card users and prompted the resignation of CIO Beth Jacob. Read More   Samsung touts mobile security to IT execs Samsung is deploying Knox, its secure platform for mobile devices, to earn the trust of the IT departments that run BYOD programs. Read More   Acer's first wearable is a smartband Acer is entering the wearable market with a fitness-tracking smartband for use with mobile devices. Read More   SAP's Ariba to get an in-memory energy boost with Hana   SAP is making good on a promise to migrate its Ariba e-commerce software to the Hana in-memory computing platform, and says an initial step has already produced staggering performance improvements. Read More   JR Raphael: Will 'Android Silver' be a good thing for consumers? That depends "Android Silver" could mark a massive shift in the way Google approaches Android -- but at the moment, we have more questions than answers about how it might work. Read More   Preston Gralla: Microsoft loses money on every Surface it sells -- $300 million in total and counting Microsoft may say that its future lies in devices and services, but at the moment it's losing big in the devices market: $300 million and counting for the Surface in the last nine months. And the more Surfaces it sells, the more money it loses. Is this any way to turn around a company's mobile strategy? Read More   Barbara Krasnoff: Acer goes for affordable in its new laptop lineup   Acer CEO Jason Chen did his best today to convince an audience of international journalists that his company was on its way to a turnaround by introducing a variety of products at reasonable prices.  Read More
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