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Link: http://www.macrumors.com/2013/02/08/former-apple-human-interface-developer-speculates-on-future-iwatch/

Is this rumor starting to gain some traction and validity? Hopefully, I'd certainly like to see Apple's next move be into a new product category. 

Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/08/us-google-schmidt-idUSBRE91712W20130208

Link: http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/02/08/home-depot-abandoning-blackberry-platform-in-favor-of-apples-iphone-and-ios

Link: http://www.zdnet.com/ios-6-1-banned-from-corporate-servers-due-to-exchange-snafu-7000011064/

It's an interesting issue to present with. 

The summary is that apparently iOS 6.1 causes devices that have Microsoft Exchange accounts registered on them (for either email or calendars etc) to constantly access the Exchange server. This causes a large amount of traffic which can obviously causes issues. 

The only thing to say is that while there seems to be a genuine issue here it is probably going to get blown out of proportion, as always, by many industry journalists.

It will be interesting how this does against not only the incumbent power houses in the mobile OS world but also against Ubuntu, which seems to be based on similar ideas; the use of open standards and giving HTML 5 'apps' full use of the system features. 

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Samsung just aired a very strange commercial for its smartphones during tonight's NFC championship game. 

Going to have to disagree with BusinessInsider. While the name of the fake game featured in the ad (“Unicorn Apocalypse”) may sound a little silly, this commercial seems to be another example of Samsung finding its advertising style.

The commercial isn’t any stranger than their other commercials and actually shows people using their devices. This is a much appreciated change from their run of anti-apple ads. 

They could still stand to benefit by talking more about the features but this is a step in the right direction.

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