Apple ISN'T planning an iPhone/iPod announcement on September 7th

	Sorry Angry Birds, texting still the most popular smartphone app | Motorola workers likely thrilled by Google's buy
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	Apple ISN'T planning an iPhone/iPod announcement on September 7th Late last week a rumor surfaced that Apple was holding a special media event on Wednesday, September 7 where it would presumably announce a new lineup of iPods and hopefully introduce the highly anticipated iPhone 5. The exact launch window of the iPhone 5 has been the subject of a lot of debate, and while the majority of early rumors pointed to an early September announcement followed by a ... Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Adding Visibility to WAN Optimization Too often network professionals find themselves stuck in reaction mode, which can prevent them for strategically planning for positive, long-term benefits. Read this report to learn some best practices for understanding and improving the visibility and performance of mission-critical, networked applications. Read now! In this Issue Sorry Angry Birds, texting still the most popular smartphone app Motorola workers likely thrilled by Google's buy Google and Moto -- then what? Motorola Mobility is by far Google's biggest acquisition ever Your rude co-worker may hurt you outside the workplace too World Gone Mad: Microsoft Security Praised Again? MS Researchers Embracing GIMP? Mobile World Congress to focus on advertising, marketing Cell phones stay on, but protesters disrupt SF subway First AT&T LTE devices to drop next week Smartphones and corporate websites, a required match WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Technical Whitepaper: Open Cloud Access Learn how to provide single sign-on for ALL of your apps and users in your cloud environments. Free guide shows how OpenCloud Access, provided by Citrix NetScaler, turns identity management into a centrally-based network function that is simple, scalable, and cost-effective. Get your copy today -- compliments of Citrix. Read now! Sorry Angry Birds, texting still the most popular smartphone app You can keep your fancy Angry Birds games and NFC-based wallets because old-fashioned text messaging is still the most popular application for smartphone users in the United States. Read More Motorola workers likely thrilled by Google's buy A survey of employees at Google and Motorola finds higher level of job satisfaction at Google. Page gets high marks, Motorola's Jha much lower. Read More Google and Moto -- then what? The news is only a day old, and already Google's $12.5 billion proposed acquisition of handset maker and OEM partner Motorola Mobility has been analyzed six ways from Sunday. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies The Value of Service-Centric Visibility IT organizations are under pressure to avert problems before they occur. To achieve the proactive approach required and move to the next level of service delivery, they need "service-centric" visibility that ties infrastructure components to the services that rely on them. Read More Motorola Mobility is by far Google's biggest acquisition ever Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility is far and away Google's biggest-ever purchase -- in fact, it's greater than Google's next 10 biggest acquisitions combined and only its third above a billion dollars. Read More Your rude co-worker may hurt you outside the workplace too The stress created by rude co-workers can be so intense that, at the end of the day, it is taken home by the worker and can damage the well-being of the worker's family. That was the main conclusion of a Baylor University study of 190 workers and their partners that looked at how a co-worker's rudeness can impact relationships beyond the workplace. Read More World Gone Mad: Microsoft Security Praised Again? MS Researchers Embracing GIMP? If you aren't sitting, you might do so, since hackers are praising Microsoft security, Kapersky Labs likes Microsoft's security, and now IE9 has been crowned with offering the best protection against drive-by-downloads. If that didn't shock you, how about Microsoft Research using the open-source graphic editor Gimp to build a prototype for tracking changes to binary files like images in a revision... Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed What Your Network Isn't Telling You Are your network tools outdated? This Cascade "chalk talk" shows how to monitor today's network with support for virtualization and cloud and: - Behavioral analytics that learns how your network behaves - Network drill-down to quickly spot root causes of problems - Discovery and dependency mapping of IT assets Learn more! Mobile World Congress to focus on advertising, marketing In February, the mobile industry will once again head to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress (MWC), which will feature a new section focusing on different aspects of mobile marketing, show organizer GSM Association (GSMA) said on Tuesday. Read More Cell phones stay on, but protesters disrupt SF subway San Francisco's commuter railway left mobile phone services untouched during a closely watched protest Monday, but for many commuters that didn't matter because they were locked out of the railway system altogether. Read More First AT&T LTE devices to drop next week Although we don't know yet just when AT&T will fire up its LTE network, we now know that AT&T will start selling LTE gear next week. Read More Smartphones and corporate websites, a required match If I remember correctly, not long after the original Apple iPhone went on sale The New York Times ran a story indicating surprise that a relatively large number of poorer people were buying the expensive phone. After some pondering, the Times concluded that the cost of the iPhone was actually small when compared to a personal computer and Internet service. The iPhone was a way that people who could not otherwise afford to be on the Internet could get reliable, reasonable speed, access for not much more per month than they were already paying for their current cellphones. Read More
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