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	Richi Jennings: FINALLY! Download Chrome Beta 37 to fix slow, blurry font 'bug' Chrome Beta download: You are about to participate in a great adventure. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) brings beta browser, with DirectWrite support. Beta 37 should quell complaints that Windows font rendering is slow and blurry. The ancient Graphics Device Interface (GDI) calls have finally been replaced -- by using the outer limits of DirectWrite. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers eulogize thuswise: GDI API RIP. Read More WHITE PAPER: Box The Next Frontier for the Mobile Enterprise IDC focuses this article on the new IT platform. This 3rd IT Platform will be the new wave for about the next 25 years, so they urge all current companies to embrace it themselves. They also talk about how mobile is a huge part of this new platform, and that not only sales for smartphones are rapidly expanding, but so is developer interest. Learn more >> In this Issue Jonny Evans: 6 Steve Jobs stories we learned this month Preston Gralla: Do Microsoft layoffs mean Windows Phone will be sold off? Jonny Evans: Why enterprise IT pros should fear Apple and IBM JR Raphael: How to make Gmail infinitely more useful on Android Wear Sharky: We're 'not big enough'? Let's try that again. RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: VMware Innovation Awards Opportunity for Recognition: VMware Innovation Awards Winners will receive recognition during VMworld 2014 and in conference materials; networking opportunity with VMware executives and other award-winning colleagues at VMworld. Plus, your innovation story will be captured in video, podcast or case study format to share with customers, peers, and partners. Submission nomination deadline July 21. Click to continue Jonny Evans: 6 Steve Jobs stories we learned this month Apple's Steve Jobs is a modern icon, but biographers have painted his character with a wide brush. That's why many who worked with Jobs seem keen to give us a much better insight into the man. Here are six Steve Jobs stories we learned this month. Read More Preston Gralla: Do Microsoft layoffs mean Windows Phone will be sold off? Microsoft's plans to lay off 18,000 people in the next year and decision to kill off the Nokia X line of low-cost Android phones may be more than short-term cost-cutting measures -- they could well portend Microsoft's selling off its Windows Phone line. So says at least one analyst. Is he on target? Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation     WHY EMC BACKUP FOR VNX Learn why you should use EMC Backup for next-generation VNX, including how EMC backup can reduce virtualized application backup times by 90% and speed recovery by 30x to keep pace with data growth and new demands of virtualization. Learn More Jonny Evans: Why enterprise IT pros should fear Apple and IBM     Apple and IBM intend bringing Apple's legendary ease of use into the enterprise. This means those who currently work in enterprise IT will be expected to deliver complexity and power within applications users can understand. And if they don't do it, they'll be out of a job. Read More JR Raphael: How to make Gmail infinitely more useful on Android Wear With a little bit of behind-the-scenes customization, you can turn Gmail and Android Wear into an intelligently coordinated team. So what are you waiting for? Read More Sharky: We're 'not big enough'? Let's try that again. Pilot fish is tasked with fixing a critical new system, and he's getting no help from the vendors. But when he tries a different approach, he's still getting no help -- but with a different response. Read More
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