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iCloud is Apple’s innovative new service that stores your content and wirelessly pushes it to your devices.

iCloud stores your music, photos, apps, calendars, documents, and more. And wirelessly pushes them to all your devices — automatically. It’s the easiest way to manage your content. Because now you don’t have to.

Visit the Apple website for more information.

Apple previewed iOS 5, the latest version of the world’s most advanced mobile operating system.

iOS 5 includes more than 200 new features for your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch and will be available this fall.

Some new features include:

Notification Center: You get all kinds of notifications on your iOS device: new email, texts, friend requests, and more. With Notification Center, you can keep track of them all in one convenient location.

iMessage: New messaging service service for all iOS users

Newsstand: iOS 5 organizes your magazine and newspaper app subscriptions in Newsstand: a folder that lets you access your favorite publications quickly and easily.

Visit the Apple website for more information.

The world’s most advanced desktop operating system advances even further with OS X Lion. Apple also announced OS X Lion Server, which includes a host of enhancements. Both will be available in July on the Mac App Store.

New in OS X Lion: Multi-Touch Gestures, Full-Screen Apps, Mission Control, Mac App Store, Launchpad, Resume, Auto Save, AirDrop, Mail

OS X Lion Server includes a host of enhancements that give you more control of your Mac server and the users who access it. The Server app — new in Lion Server — features a setup assistant that walks you through the server configuration process step by step. So now anyone can turn just about any Mac into a server. Profile Manager lets you remotely manage computers running Lion and iOS devices such as iPad and iPhone. You can even send updates to your users wirelessly via push notifications. Lion Server also adds file-sharing capabilities for iPad; includes improvements to Wiki Server, iCal Server and Mail Server; and comes with Xsan built in.

Visit the Apple website for more information.

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iPads Appearing in Your Enterprise? Need to devise a mobile file management strategy?

GroupLogic just announced a new product, mobilEcho—the industry’s first and only mobile file management solution for enterprise iPad users.

As mobile devices, such as the iPad, continue to proliferate within the enterprise, IT professionals are challenged to integrate, secure, support, and manage these devices, while meeting corporate security and compliance guidelines. GroupLogic is meeting these challenges with mobilEcho to help enterprises embrace new mobile technologies.

mobilEcho enables enterprises to provide corporate iPads secure file access to enterprise file servers, eliminating the need for work-arounds and third-party mobile applications that compromise the security of enterprise files and assets. With mobilEcho, enterprises can maximize the benefits of the iPad for mobile users by increasing productivity, provide secure file access to corporate servers and ensure central IT can manage these devices while leveraging the existing infrastructure.

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