Apple's bad week: A sign of decline or just a blip?

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	Apple's bad week: A sign of decline or just a blip? "Poor" Apple -- the bad news keeps coming. This week, research reports confirmed that Android dominates as a smartphone and tablet platform, Samsung devices bested iPhones in a respected consumer satisfaction survey, Apple Store employees lodged complaints about unfair wage practices, and working conditions at Apple's suppliers in China continued to draw fire. Some weeks, you just want a do-over. Then again, when you're the world's most valuable tech company, news like this probably doesn't sting quite so much. Read More WHITE PAPER: BlackBerry Five answers to top BYOD Challenges Mobility has revolutionized how we do business. Managing mobility and BYOD means knowing how to navigate changing operating systems, changing platforms and changing hardware to reap benefits like improved productivity, agility, growth and better customer service. Here are five steps for choosing an MDM solution for today -- and tomorrow. Learn More In this Issue Researchers demo exploits that bypass Windows 8 Secure Boot Google rekindles Motorola legacy with mobile X8 chipset Data center innovator Ken Brill dies at 68 State dumping IBM after IT project runs 42 months late, $60 million over budget Qualcomm calls out eight-core processors as 'dumb' WHITE PAPER: Crittercism Defining Mobile APM The explosion of mobile devices, the advance of increasingly improving wireless networks, and the adoption of cloud technologies by enterprises and developer companies alike, have moved the mobile app market into a boom phase. Read now! Researchers demo exploits that bypass Windows 8 Secure Boot The Windows 8 Secure Boot mechanism can be bypassed on PCs from certain manufacturers because of oversights in how those vendors implemented the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) specification, according to a team of security researchers. The researchers Andrew Furtak, Oleksandr Bazhaniuk and Yuriy Bulygin demonstrated Wednesday at the Black Hat USA security conference in Las Vegas two attacks that bypassed Secure Boot in order to install a UEFI bootkit -- boot rootkit -- on affected computers. Read More Google rekindles Motorola legacy with mobile X8 chipset The decades-old legacy of Motorola as a semiconductor innovator remains alive, with Google providing its Motorola Mobility unit a fresh start in chip design with the X8 chip system, which will be used in the upcoming Droid and Moto X smartphones. Read More Data center innovator Ken Brill dies at 68 Ken Brill, founder of the Uptime Institute and a forward thinker in data center design and operations, died this week at the age of 68, the Institute said on Thursday. The cause was cancer, a spokesman said. Brill was known for his work creating the Uptime Institute's data center tiering system, which provides a way to rate and compare the reliability of computing facilities. It's used by many large companies for their data center planning and selection. Read More State dumping IBM after IT project runs 42 months late, $60 million over budget The state of Pennsylvania will not renew its services contract with IBM regarding the development of a modernized unemployment compensation system, after the project reportedly has gone 42 months behind schedule and $60 million over budget. In August, state officials commissioned a study from Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute, seeking "to determine the best course of action moving forward," according to a statement released this week by Department of Labor and Industry Secretary Julia Hearthway's office. Read More Qualcomm calls out eight-core processors as 'dumb' Eight-core processors are "dumb," as the consumer wants an experience that comes from more than just throwing cores together, a Qualcomm executive said, referring to new eight-core chips announced recently. Read More
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