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Global PC Market Q2, 2012: Apple Inc. Takes Cut On Volume But Regains Top Slot (DazeInfo)
In Q2, 2013 Global PC market has remained flat despite 42.9% growth in the tablets. Nearly 109 million PCs (includes Desktops, netbooks and tablets) were shipped in Q2, 2013 with a negligible growth of 0.3% compare to a year back quarter. …The following graph includes the shipment of Desktops, tablets, and notebooks. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) remains the top individual vendor but has lost it share from 19.4% in 2012 to 17.1% in 2013 majorly to Android.

Google Glass app brings innovation to police work (PoliceOne)
At this year’s Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) tradeshow, Mutualink, Inc. plans to unveil their real-time multimedia interoperability for public safety using Google Glass. The app will allow police and other first responders to share live streaming video with other personnel and communicate with other partner agencies simultaneously, according to a press release. …“Mutualink was very fortunate to be part of a select group of innovators given access to Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG)’s new Glass technology,” said Dr. Michael Wengrovitz, Mutualink’s Vice President of Innovation.

Bill Gates, HP, Warner Music, Deere: Intellectual Property (Businessweek)
While Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates these days is more often seen engaged in philanthropic activities through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, he still dons his inventor cap from time to time. Gates is one of the named inventors on a patent application published in the database of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office July 25. One of Gates’s nine co-inventors is Nathan Myhrvold, former Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) chief technology officer and founder and chief executive officer of Bellevue, Washington’s Intellectual Ventures.