Apple tells iPhone 6 users in trouble to revert to iOS 8

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	Apple tells iPhone 6 users in trouble to revert to iOS 8 Apple has recommended to users of its new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus smartphones to reinstall iOS 8 after an update Wednesday led to complaints of lost cellular service and functionality on the Touch ID fingerprint identity sensor. The company provided instructions to affected users on its support site for reinstalling iOS 8.0 through iTunes. It said it was also preparing a new software update, iOS 8.0.2, with a fix for the issue. The iOS 8.0.2 update will release "as soon as it's ready in the next few days," Apple said, without giving a specific date. The Health app won't work in iOS 8 after the reinstall, but will be fixed in the iOS 8.0.2 update.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Masergy Communications Inc. 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Learn More In this Issue ARM's Cortex M7 chip could usher in feature-rich robots, appliances and wearables IBM's solar concentrator can produce energy, clean water and AC BlackBerry Passport review roundup -- this changes everything (and nothing) Oh, the irony! iPhone 6 copies the Nexus 4 Japan rolls out cheerleading swarm robots DHL to test 'parcelcopter' drone for medicine delivery Blackphone and Silent Circle offer bounty for security flaws Living with Acer's Chromebook 13: The good and the bad BlackBerry goes for qwerty keyboard, again, in Passport smartphone WHITE PAPER: Unify Five Reasons to Think Again about UC If unified communications is on your mind, you're probably looking for ways to leverage your current technology investment, flexible deployment options, global support capabilities, a vendor with a clear market vision, and expert advice. Look no further. Click here to learn how Unify can address all of your UC needs. Learn More ARM's Cortex M7 chip could usher in feature-rich robots, appliances and wearables ARM's new 400MHz Cortex M7 processor could find its way into robots, drones, medical devices and even wearables. Read More IBM's solar concentrator can produce energy, clean water and AC IBM Research and Swiss-based Airlight Energy have created a solar concentrator that looks like a giant sunflower and can produce 20kW of power per day, along with clean water and hot or cool air. Read More BlackBerry Passport review roundup -- this changes everything (and nothing) We have seen the future, and it's square. At least, that's what BlackBerry would have us believe. Early reactions to its new Passport smartphone are... Well, read on to find out.In IT Blogwatch, bloggers gettaloada the unity aspect ratio. Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment.Matt Hamblen gets to the point, without rambling: [You're fired -Ed.]To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Oh, the irony! iPhone 6 copies the Nexus 4 William Theaker (Samsung Galaxy Nexus); Apple (iPhone 6) Apple’s iPhone 6 has been met with effusive praise from the tech press and long lines wherever it is sold. But many in the tech industry are accusing Apple of copying many features found in Android phones and the operating system they run. There is an irony here, since Apple is one of the most aggressive patent lawsuit filers in the world and has famously been at war with Samsung, charging that its Android phones have closely copied features of earlier iPhones.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Accountable Media Meeting the Exploding Demand for New IT Services Fueled by the explosion of mobility, the broad acceptance of cloud and tidal volumes of new data sources, the unprecedented demand for new and more efficient IT services is taxing IT managers to the limit. Learn More Japan rolls out cheerleading swarm robots There's something inherently scary about robots acting together to accomplish a goal. So-called swarm robots, which have recently emerged from robotics labs, have long been a staple of scary science-fiction films. But a new swarm robot group from Japan puts a distinctively "kawaii," or cute, spin on the concept. Meet the Murata Cheerleading robots. They look like dolls, have glowing eyes and balance on steel balls. Unveiled Thursday in Tokyo by components maker Murata Manufacturing, each bot looks like a cartoonish girl sporting a red skirt and short black hair. A series of rollers under the skirt keep the robot balanced on a ball or rotate it in a particular direction to move around.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More DHL to test 'parcelcopter' drone for medicine delivery Deutsche Post DHL will launch soon regular drone flights to deliver emergency medicines and other goods to the North Sea island of Juist. Described as a research project, the flight by the "DHL parcelcopter" is the first time in Europe that a flight by an unmanned aircraft will be operated outside a pilot's field of vision in a real-life mission, the postal and logistics services group said. A restricted flight area exclusively for the project has been agreed on after consultations with German federal and local officials. The flights for Juist will take off from the harbor in Norddeich. Amazon.com and Google have said that they plan to use drones for the delivery of goods, but the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has as yet to frame rules for the operation of commercial unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The use of very small model aircraft for recreational purposes is allowed under certain conditions, including the requirement that it stays visible to the hobbyist at all times during flight.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Blackphone and Silent Circle offer bounty for security flaws The makers of the secure Blackphone smartphone and co-owner Silent Circle have announced a bug bounty programme that will pay a "minimum" of $128 (£78) for every security flaw bug hunters disclose to the firms.The Bugcrowd-managed program covers the PrivatOS software that runs Blackphone's Android fork plus all network and cloud services, most though not all website flaws and vulnerabilities detected on the Silent Circle suite of secure apps used by the handset."We have high expectations for security and privacy. In order to deliver on our expectations we must continually build a strong relationship with the security research community," said Blackphone and Silent Circle CSO, Dr Daniel Ford (Blackphone being a joint venture with handset maker Geeksphone).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Living with Acer's Chromebook 13: The good and the bad Searching for the perfect Chromebook is like scouring the earth for utopia: Sooner or later, you realize it's a fruitless expedition. The best you can do is settle for something that's pretty good with the types of compromises you can tolerate.That's certainly the case with Acer's new Chromebook 13. On paper, the system sounds fantastic: It has better-than-average build quality, a large 1080p display, and Nvidia's new Tegra K1 processor -- a chip Nvidia says packs "more cores than the majority of Chromebook processors" and consequently lets you get around the Web "faster than on any other mobile processor on the market."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More BlackBerry goes for qwerty keyboard, again, in Passport smartphone BlackBerry announced its Passport smartphone today and bet large that there are users who will want a qwerty physical keyboard with a wider, square, 4.5-in. display. Read More
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