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	Richi Jennings: Candy crushed: EU demands Google & Apple clean-up their apps In-app purchases: Like stealing candy from a baby. Silent sentinel, tireless champion, (and BFF!) of consumers everywhere -- the European Commission -- has put its foot down once again. Its notion that anything-is-OK-as-long-as-I-make-a-buck attitude regarding in-app purchases -- especially those labelled "free" on the Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) app stores -- is now especially irksome to our Brussels-based friends. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers start uninstalling apps. Read More WHITE PAPER: Box Empowering Your Mobile Workers A modern mobile IT strategy is no longer an option, it is an absolute necessity. Here's how some of the nation's most progressive corporations are meeting the many needs of their mobile workers - without overwhelming their IT departments - with the help of Box. Learn more! In this Issue Preston Gralla: Has Microsoft abandoned its Android experiment forever? Jonny Evans: 6 ways Apple protects your privacy in iOS 8 Sharky: My, what an optimistic view of users you have! WHITE PAPER: VCE Business Benefits of Running SAP on Converged Infrastructure Forrester Consulting conducted a Total Economic Impact™ study and examined the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by replatforming SAP on factory-integrated systems. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact on their organization. Learn more Preston Gralla: Has Microsoft abandoned its Android experiment forever? Microsoft's announced yesterday that it will kill off the Nokia X line of Android phones. But left unsaid was whether this ends the company's brief flirtation with Android. Is Microsoft's embrace of Android a thing of the past? Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation THE RISE OF THE PROTECTION STORAGE ARCHITECTURE Redefine data protection for your business and transform data protection from cost center to business enabler in order to improve delivery service times, deploy applications, and scale operations. Learn More Jonny Evans: 6 ways Apple protects your privacy in iOS 8 Apple has put a lot of work into ensuring iOS 8 users are given much stronger controls over their privacy and security, giving its mobile OS a USP competitors cannot (or will not) match. Read More Sharky: My, what an optimistic view of users you have! It's been a long, hard effort, but this pilot fish's organization has finally managed to get rid of all its Windows XP computers -- almost. Now how to get rid of that last one-tenth of 1 percent? Read More
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