RIM's CEO: What went wrong and where BlackBerry goes from here

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	RIM's CEO: What went wrong and where BlackBerry goes from here On Thursday, June 28, Research in Motion CEO Thorsten Heins announced the company's latest financials in a particularly grim earnings call. Heins reported a first-quarter loss of $518 million, or 99 cents a share. Overall sales for the period were $2.8 billion, down from $4.9 billion in the same quarter a year ago, he said. And Heins announced RIM would cut roughly 5,000 employees. These are dark days for the former king of mobile. But Heins isn't throwing in the towel just yet Read More WEBCAST: SAP Automate Your Partners for Efficient E-Business Join IDC's Maureen Fleming and SAP for an insightful Webcast on the different approaches companies are taking to B2B integration and how you can ask the right questions to reassess your B2B approach. Learn More In this Issue Apple ships final OS X Mountain Lion to developers Cleversafe slices up storage to increase big data reliability Go it alone no more: GitHub gets $100 million investment Does Apple's abandonment of EPEAT mean it's going less green? EMC overhauls NetWorker to improve performance, scalability RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Amazon Web Services Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2 Get up to 312 hours of free Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) on-demand instances on Amazon EC2. Leverage the cost effectiveness, scalability, and flexibility of Amazon Web Services (AWS), with the proven reliability of RHEL and the backing of AWS premium support. Try now. Apple ships final OS X Mountain Lion to developers Apple on Monday released a "golden master" of OS X Mountain Lion to developers, putting the impending operating system on track to reach customers this month. "Golden master," or GM, is a label some developers apply to software that is ready, or nearly ready, for shipping. Rival Microsoft calls the same milestone "release to manufacturing," or RTM, designating that the code is suitable for computer makers to install on new machines. Read More Cleversafe slices up storage to increase big data reliability Mo' data, mo' problems is one of the themes heard at organizations straining to get their arms around big data. A company called Cleversafe, which has been in the storage game for three years now, is taking a noteworthy approach to easing the storage strain. The company on Tuesday announced Version 3.0 of its Dispersed Storage Network (dsNet) system, designed to leverage the power of Hadoop MapReduce while replacing the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). Read More Go it alone no more: GitHub gets $100 million investment GitHub, the code-sharing and hosting site based on the open source Git software version control platform, is getting a $100 million investment from the Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm -- its first outside investment. Read More Does Apple's abandonment of EPEAT mean it's going less green? Apple's decision to abandon EPEAT (Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool) has generated a wave of speculation as to what the move means for the future of the hardware maker's green endeavors. At the heart of the controversy is the company's newest MacBook Pro with Retina Display, which Apple designed in such a way that it's difficult to disassemble for the sake of repairs, upgrades, and recycling. Read More EMC overhauls NetWorker to improve performance, scalability EMC is updating its NetWorker backup and recovery software on Tuesday with an eye to greater efficiency, tighter integration with other EMC products, and cloud computing. NetWorker 8 is the most significant new version of the software since 2003, when NetWorker 7 was released. It updates the product in several major ways, both streamlining it for higher performance and enhancing its usefulness. Read More
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