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    Wednesday Grok: iPhone on top but Android owns the noobs 08 February, 2012 09:55:00

    The Great Game for philosophical hegemony in this post-historical epoch continues to unfurl. Yes, that's right — smartphone market share figures for Apple and Android have been updated. It appears that in the last quarter the natural order was restored, with iPhone dominating US sales again, according to one survey, and dominating worldwide shipments, according to another.
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    Apple readies for holiday bonanza 16 November, 2011 07:34:00

    The Apple iPhone might not be dominating the smartphone market like its iOS cousin, the iPad, is commanding the emerging tablet market, but recent signs point to an upcoming iPhone boon that will go bonkers this holiday season.
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    Microsoft confirms app store in Windows 8 19 August, 2011 03:24:00

    Microsoft has begun talking about Windows 8 in general terms, reprising a blog-based strategy that it used in the year-long run-up to Windows 7.
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    Strong demand, spot shortages for new MacBook Air, says analyst 02 August, 2011 06:34:00

    Spot shortages of the MacBook Air show that demand for Apple's recently-revamped notebook is off to a strong start, a Wall Street analyst said today.
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    LimeWire settlement unlikely to blunt music piracy 14 May, 2011 06:09:00

    Peer-to-peer software maker LimeWire's willingness to pay a whopping $105 million to settle music piracy claims marks a decisive, if somewhat symbolic, victory for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
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    iPad cannibalization talk crazy, says analyst 11 May, 2011 02:43:00

    Apple's iPad hasn't materially affected consumer PC sales, as some have claimed, a research firm said today.
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    Apple's iMac refresh will boost sales 'for couple of months,' says analyst 04 May, 2011 03:05:00

    Apple today refreshed its iMac desktop line, which now sport Intel's second-generation quad-core processors and the new Thunderbolt connectivity technology that debuted in February on the company's MacBook Pro laptops.
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    What will Apple do with 12 petabytes of storage? 07 April, 2011 08:44:00

    Apple is ordering a heaping helping of data storage -- 12 petabytes, to be exact -- from Isilon Systems, a division of EMC that specializes in scale-out storage. Cupertino plans to use that cavernous space to manage video downloads of its iTunes' customers, an anonymous insider at EMC tells StorageNewsletter.com.
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    Netflix dominates video streaming: there will be blood 16 March, 2011 09:44:00

    No wonder everybody's gunning for Netflix. The video-streaming service is more popular than many of us imagined. A new study by market research firm The NPD Group shows that Netflix's share of streamed or downloaded digital movies was a competition-crushing 61 percent between January and February 2011.
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    Apple failed to move hardware bar with iPad 2, say experts 03 March, 2011 08:07:00

    By the time that Apple CEO Steve Jobs wrapped up today's launch of a revamped iPad, analysts were already calling it "incremental" and pointing out that it the new tablet delivers "no surprises."
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    Music execs stressed over free streaming 25 February, 2011 09:03:02

    Free streaming services are replacing piracy as the chief culprit of music industry revenue loss in the minds of fiscally frustrated executives, if a number of panel discussions at a New York digital music conference are any indication.
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    Antivirus software powerless to stop data breach attacks, study finds 10 February, 2012 01:43:00

    Analysis of 300 incidents spots an elephant in the room
    Large numbers of data breaches are being initiated by targeted malware that antivirus software simply can't detect, an analysis of 300 real-world incidents from 2011 has suggested.
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    Valentine's Day Patch Tuesday: Microsoft to issue 9 patches, 4 critical 10 February, 2012 09:29:00

    Microsoft Thursday said that the second Patch Tuesday of 2012 will see nine security bulletins, four of which were deemed critical.
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    Security experts ask House for light a regulatory touch 10 February, 2012 01:39:00

    Cybersecurity experts on Wednesday warned members of a House subcommittee against racing to legislation that would establish an overly burdensome regulatory framework for safeguarding digital systems against attacks, instead urging a more limited approach that would clear away legal impediments such as the prohibitions against sharing critical threat information.
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    The six pillars of security operations 10 February, 2012 11:37:00

    Six key points that should be considered when creating and developing a SOC
    As mobilisation and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) becomes increasingly prevalent, business security has been propelled to the forefront of corporate strategy.
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    Google Wallet Security Concerns Raised 10 February, 2012 01:40:00

    Security firm Zvelo has discovered that the Google Wallet PIN can be cracked via an exhaustive numerical search.
    Google's new NFC system that purports to turn your phone into a credit card can be compromised using a brute-force attack -- and that raises questions about its security.
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