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	iPhone share slump spurs calls for low-price model Analysts argued today over the significance of Apple's falling market share, reflecting the uncertainties the Cupertino, Calif. company faces in a transition to lower profits. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation EMC Service Assurance Suite Discover how you can get visibility into virtualized environments, the cloud and software-defined date centers, analyze availability and performance, optimize the environment and control costs with end-to-end performance, capacity management and reporting. Learn more. In this Issue Top hacker dies days before scheduled Black Hat talk Chromecast for the road warrior Samsung's new memory for tablets and smartphones is 3X faster Thumb-size Dell PC, Project Ophelia, ships to testers Video: Wearable Tech Expo spotlights health and fitness FBI, Microsoft takedown program blunts most Citadel botnets Wipro sees growing demand from U.S. outsourcing clients Open-source project, Crypton, seeks to make encryption easier US will not seek death penalty for Edward Snowden NASA's new IRIS telescope could foresee extreme solar storms JR Raphael: How Google just quietly made your Android phone more secure Jonny Evans: Smartphone wars: 'We're only dancing' as Samsung v Apple share the floor Jerry Hoff: 4 risks from legacy applications Preston Gralla: Steve Ballmer half-heartedly confesses Microsoft built too many Surface tablets WHITE PAPER: Mimecast North America Inc. Simplifying the Transition to Exchange 2010 Summers Labs relied on a bare-bones AS/AV product, until a plan for a complete infrastructure refresh opened the door to a more comprehensive solution. Read this case study to learn how a cloud-based email management solution greatly simplified the company's transition to Exchange 2010. Learn More. Top hacker dies days before scheduled Black Hat talk Noted hacker Barnaby Jack, known for exposing vulnerabilities in ATM machines and medical devices, died in San Francisco Thursday, just days before he was scheduled to speak on deadly security shortcomings in medical implants at next week's Black Hat security conference. Read More Chromecast for the road warrior Google's $35 Chromecast dongle for beaming video and music to HD TV's from smartphones, tablets and laptops appears to be a clear hit for use in America's living rooms. But what about in the enterprise? Not so fast, analysts said. Read More Samsung's new memory for tablets and smartphones is 3X faster Samsung is now mass producing 16GB, 32GB and 64GB embedded memory cards that have 400MB/sec interface speeds, almost triple the performance of its current embedded mobile memory. Read More Thumb-size Dell PC, Project Ophelia, ships to testers Dell has started shipping its thumb-size PC called Project Ophelia to beta testers and is preparing to ship the final product in the coming months. Read More Video: Wearable Tech Expo spotlights health and fitness Tech manufacturers, product designers and industry experts gathered in New York this week for the Wearable Tech Expo where health and fitness took center stage. Read More FBI, Microsoft takedown program blunts most Citadel botnets Microsoft estimates that 88% of botnets running the Citadel financial malware were disrupted as a result of a takedown operation launched by the company in collaboration with the FBI and partners in technology and financial services. The operation was originally announced on June 5. Read More Wipro sees growing demand from U.S. outsourcing clients Indian outsourcer Wipro grew revenue and profits in the second quarter, citing improved demand. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Enable Faster Backup and More Effective Long-Term Archiving EMC Data Domain Systems respond to the challenges organizations are struggling with as they balance requirements for disk-based backup, long-term backup retention, and cost-effective archiving. The systems support long-term backup retention and provide a foundation for supporting new archiving workloads. Learn more. Open-source project, Crypton, seeks to make encryption easier An open-source software project aims to give software developers a simple way to wrap encryption into their applications to thwart online surveillance efforts. Read More US will not seek death penalty for Edward Snowden The U.S. will not seek the death penalty for Edward Snowden, the former intelligence contractor responsible for leaking documents revealing classified government surveillance programs, according to a recent letter from attorney general Eric Holder. Read More NASA's new IRIS telescope could foresee extreme solar storms NASA's newest telescope is giving scientists the clearest pictures yet of the sun's atmosphere, and in doing so could help mitigate the potentially devastating effects an extreme solar storm could have on our power and communications networks on Earth. Read More JR Raphael: How Google just quietly made your Android phone more secure One of Google's biggest changes to the Android platform is actually happening outside of the operating system -- and it's affecting almost every Android device in the world. Read More Jonny Evans: Smartphone wars: 'We're only dancing' as Samsung v Apple share the floor Samsung has beaten Apple in the smartphone market -- this at least is the headline du jour, but are we watching the fall from grace of Apple, or is this Samsung's last dance before its own demise? Put it this way: don't sell your AAPL stock just yet. Here's why: Read More Jerry Hoff: 4 risks from legacy applications Security professionals are prone to delivering edicts about securing code in new dev projects, but what about the mountain of existing code that is already in production? Read More Preston Gralla: Steve Ballmer half-heartedly confesses Microsoft built too many Surface tablets Steve Ballmer has belatedly and half-heartedly admitted that Microsoft built far more Surface tablets than the company could possibly sell. And at the same internal Microsoft town hall meeting, he also said the obvious: Microsoft isn't selling as many copies of Windows 8 as it hoped. Read More
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