iPhone 5S/6 heralds Apple's carrier-independence desire

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	Richi Jennings: Here's why iPhone 5S / 6 heralds Apple's carrier-independence desire Tim Cook must have more margin. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) will use the iPhone 5S / 6 release to step up its retail strategy. It seems that the pomaceous company wants more direct business, with fewer phones sold via carriers and other retail outlets. Not only that, but Apple will offer discounts and other deals, we're told, in an attempt to get customers through its stores' doors. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder if Tim's cooked his golden-egg-laying goose. [You're fired -Ed.] Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Preparing Your Infrastructure for the Hyperconvergence Era From cloud computing and virtualization to mobility and unified communications, an array of innovative technologies is transforming today's data centers. And along the way, they're also flooding corporate networks with enormous new torrents of traffic. Read Now In this Issue Jonny Evans: Apple's iWork for iCloud beta is super-speedy, a first look Darlene Storm: Motorola secretly spies on Droid phone users every 9 minutes, collects personal data Preston Gralla: Will Microsoft's restructuring be Ballmer's last stand? Jonny Evans: Why Apple really, really doesn't need a shopkeeper to lead its retail chain Matt Hamblen: Sony Xperia ZL: an unlocked 5-in. gem in a diverse Android smartphone market Jonny Evans: Apple's YSL hire: One size fits all? Michael Horowitz: A hit and a miss from The Tech Guy JohnWThompson: Competing in the global marketplace Sharky: How to explain those useless system files to users Sharky: Test successful. Failure rate: 100 percent. Sharky: Pretty sure that's Furlough Mandated, but whatever WEBCAST: IBM Leveraging SaaS to Drive Innovation and Results Learn how sales, finance, marketing, procurement, and supply chain leaders are leveraging SaaS to become more agile and serve the customer better. Learn More. Jonny Evans: Apple's iWork for iCloud beta is super-speedy, a first look Apple has opened up its iWork for iCloud beta to a large number of new beta testers, so I've spent a couple of hours taking a look at what's inside the cloud-based productivity suite. What follows is a whistle-stop tour of what's good and what's missing in the suite so far. Read More Darlene Storm: Motorola secretly spies on Droid phone users every 9 minutes, collects personal data Recall the Carrier IQ fiasco? An engineer made a similar discovery about his Droid X2 smartphone secretly sending sensitive data to Motorola every nine minutes--like passwords, usernames, email addresses, GPS from photos and even his home screen/widget info--with lots of personal info being sent over an unencrypted HTTP channel. Read More Preston Gralla: Will Microsoft's restructuring be Ballmer's last stand? Steve Ballmer is said to be close to unveiling a major shakeup in Microsoft's organizational structure, to more closely align it with his goal of turning Microsoft into a services and devices company. It's a very big reorganization, the biggest the company has seen in some time. Will it work, or will this be Ballmer's last stand? Read More Jonny Evans: Why Apple really, really doesn't need a shopkeeper to lead its retail chain The search for a new retail chief continues at Apple, but perhaps the company is simply looking in the wrong direction: it doesn't need a shopkeeper to run its retail stores -- it needs an evangelist. Read More Matt Hamblen: Sony Xperia ZL: an unlocked 5-in. gem in a diverse Android smartphone market In a test of the Sony Xperia ZL, it becomes obvious that diversity of features is the new direction in smartphones. Read More WHITE PAPER: TEKsystems Attributes of Successful Mobile Outsourcing Partnerships TEKsystems commissioned IDG to survey Computerworld's audience regarding their organizations' mobility strategy, the approaches they have pursued or are pursing in implementing mobile technology within their organization and the various ways providers have addressed or plan to address select mobility obstacles. . Learn More Jonny Evans: Apple's YSL hire: One size fits all? Does the phrase "connected device" excite you? Do notions of wearable computing warm you up? Do your lips wet with anticipation at the prospect of IPv6 or HEVC? Then you are a technologist. Meanwhile, in the wider world of the mass market, people's arousal response is stimulated by more primitive reactions to beauty, utility and trend. Apple [AAPL] hire of Yves St Laurent CEO, Paul Deneve suggest it's planning to turn the latter market on. Read More Michael Horowitz: A hit and a miss from The Tech Guy Leo Laporte, The Tech Guy on the radio, left out an important step that anyone dealing with lost files on their computer should always do first thing. On the other hand, his ridicule of Faith Salie on the CBS Sunday Morning TV show was great. Read More JohnWThompson: Competing in the global marketplace Whether you work for a large company or a small startup, chances are your business is global in nature. And if it's not there yet, I would expect that it's part of your organization's long-term strategy. The real question for companies today is not if they should expand - but when and where to expand. Building a global business brings tremendous benefits to your organization, but only if the expansion is done in a thoughtful way. Read More Sharky: How to explain those useless system files to users Flashback to early in this pilot fish's career, when she's doing IT support at a local library where most of the librarians know when to ask for help -- but one knows just enough to be dangerous. Read More Sharky: Test successful. Failure rate: 100 percent. It's the long-ago days of the 20th century, and this pilot fish is working as a developer for a small software vendor where there's a standard procedure that seems to be ignored by customer service reps. So fish decides on a test. Read More Sharky: Pretty sure that's Furlough Mandated, but whatever This pilot fish is a long-suffering federal employee who's on the receiving end of the budget wars -- right down to the nuts-and-bolts details of the furloughs. Read More
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