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	Google Maps now available on iPhone Google has made its Maps app available on the Apple App Store, after Apple stumbled with its own maps application. The Google Maps app was available from late Wednesday for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch. Apple, which had shipped Google's mapping application with the iOS operating system, replaced it with its own mapping application in the new version iOS 6 which was released in September. The application was however found to have glitches, which led Apple's CEO Tim Cook to apologize for the frustration caused to customers. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Amazon Web Services Set up and run SQL Server on the Amazon Web Services Cloud Amazon Web Services RDS for Microsoft SQL Server® makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server deployments in the cloud. With Amazon RDS, you can deploy multiple editions of SQL Server (2008 R2 and 2012) including Express, Web, Standard and Enterprise, in minutes with cost-efficient and re-sizable compute capacity. Get started for free. Get Started for Free with Amazon RDS for SQL Server! Reduce the complexity and cost of provisioning and managing your SQL Server databases, and focus on your application development, with Amazon RDS for SQL Server. In this Issue Microsoft's Surface RT getting a tiny share of tablet Web traffic Vint Cerf: The Internet doesn't need the ITU's help Oracle buys DataRaker for 'big data' analysis Lawsuit claims fake Android alerts tied to mystery charges RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! Microsoft's Surface RT getting a tiny share of tablet Web traffic Sales of the Microsoft Surface RT tablet are difficult to measure, but one study indicates it's only generating a tiny portion of Web traffic -- less than 1 percent. In fact, according to Chitika Insights, Surface RT tablets accounted for just 0.13 percent of all tablet Web traffic in the U.S. and Canada from Nov. 12 to 18.Chitika serves up Web ads to the Internet and measures how many users come to pages containing those ads. For its study about the Surface RT, Chitika looked at a sample of tens of millions of tablet "impressions" during the week involved. Read More Vint Cerf: The Internet doesn't need the ITU's help Work under way to draft new regulations at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai this week could harm the Internet, warned Internet pioneer and Google executive Vint Cerf. "The Internet is under threat" from proposals at the WCIT, Cerf said at the Usenix LISA (Large Installation System Administration) conference in San Diego on Wednesday. Read More Oracle buys DataRaker for 'big data' analysis Oracle is planning to buy DataRaker in a move that will give it a cloud-based platform for analyzing data from smart meters used by energy utilities. Terms of the deal, which was announced Thursday, weren't disclosed. Smart meters and the massive amounts of information they generate are frequently linked with the industry buzzword "big data," which typically refers to unstructured data formats. Oracle's pending acquisition of DataRaker ties into a broad movement by software vendors to sell products that customers can use to crunch these data sets for valuable insights. Read More Lawsuit claims fake Android alerts tied to mystery charges In one of the first lawsuits of its kind targeting an Android app maker and advertiser, a Colorado law firm has filed a class-action complaint against Colorado-based GoLive Mobile and California-based Airpush, alleging the two worked together to bilk Android phone users out of millions of dollars by paying for premium wireless services they never wanted. Attorneys claim GoLive and Airpush purposely tricked customers by creating mobile ads that looked like official Android system notifications. Read More
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