Apple goes against grain, extends support for Snow Leopard

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	Apple goes against grain, extends support for Snow Leopard Apple this week quietly released a security update for OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, effectively extending support for the three-year-old OS beyond the normal lifecycle. The Snow Leopard update shipped alongside larger updates for Lion and Mountain Lion, OS X 10.7 and OS X 10.8. If Apple had done the expected and not patched Snow Leopard, the number of users running a retired edition of OS X would have ballooned to 47 percent. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Forrester: Industrializing IT Workload Automation In this study, Forrester developed a hypothesis that tested the need for automation, the issues raised by a tactical and punctual deployment of job scheduling solutions, and the benefits of a more strategic usage of enterprise-wide workload automation. Read Now! In this Issue BlackBerry outage hits Europe, the Middle East, and Africa Samsung and Motorola don't infringe on Apple's multitouch patent, says German court Oracle Q1 profit up 11 percent, but hardware products revenue drops 24 percent SSDs boost Instagram's speed on Amazon EC2 RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Drobo Drobo SAN for Business Live Demo Daily! We want you to learn from the very best–Drobo experts–available every day. Participate in live interactive sessions to see a live demo of Drobo products, ask questions, validate deployment ideas. Our experts cover configuration, sizing, network best practices, and infrastructure monitoring–and talk VMware, Hyper-V, iSCSI, Tiering, SSD acceleration. Join us for a live demo every business day, Monday to Friday BlackBerry outage hits Europe, the Middle East, and Africa BlackBerry users are experiencing a service outage in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) said on Friday. "There are problems with the BlackBerry service," said Kim van Bokhoven, PR manager Benelux for RIM in an email. "This problem affects some users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. All relevant support teams are working to resolve the issue. We apologize to any customers who may be affected." Read More Samsung and Motorola don't infringe on Apple's multitouch patent, says German court Samsung Electronics and Motorola Mobility don't infringe on an Apple patent that describes technology that prevents smartphone users from pushing two buttons at the same time on a touch screen, the lower regional court in Mannheim ruled on Friday, a court spokesman said. Read More Oracle Q1 profit up 11 percent, but hardware products revenue drops 24 percent Oracle on Thursday reported that net income rose 11 percent to $2 billion while revenue fell 2 percent to $8.2 billion in the first quarter ended Aug. 31, with the period marked by some strength in software but falling hardware revenues. New software license sales and cloud subscription revenues rose 5 percent to $1.6 billion. Read More SSDs boost Instagram's speed on Amazon EC2 Instagram can drive data to its computing systems on Amazon.com's EC2 service 20 times as fast with solid-state drives, a co-founder of the photo-sharing service said on Thursday at the GigaOm Mobilize conference in San Francisco. Enterprises are starting to embrace SSDs as a faster, more compact and less power-hungry alternative to spinning disks, though the hardware still costs more per gigabyte. Web 2.0 services such as Instagram have been early adopters of the technology. Read More
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