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	Apple Watch steals show from biggest iPhone ever Apple CEO Tim Cook and several other top executives today pulled the wraps off the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, and showed the company's long-awaited wearable, dubbed the Apple Watch, to a large audience in Cupertino, Calif. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: JAMF Software Is BYOD a pain in your BUTT? BYOD is easy with the Casper Suite BYOD solution. This light-weight device management option is specifically designed to provide enterprise management and security for personally owned iOS and Android devices — while eliminating the challenges associated with cost, complexity, and user acceptance. LEARN MORE In this Issue Apple Watch and Apple Pay attract some non-Apple converts at CTIA show Apple's iPhone, iWatch launch event -- live blog The Evolution of Apple's iPhone iPhone narrative pivots from low-cost to higher prices iOS 7 hits 90% share, iOS 8 likely to ship Sept. 17 Apple hands over $57M to CEO after stellar S&P performance Apple's mobile payment rolling out despite problems Apple to expand, recast iPhone portfolio The Devil wears Apple: Invites to Tuesday's event signal smartwatch's fashionable intent Forget the iPhone: It's all about iWatch Apple, iCloud take reputation hits after photo scandal Apple CEO vows to tighten iCloud security Crisis comm expert applauds Apple's Cook for stepping up, talking about photo scandal Greenpeace says everyone should copy Apple Rotten Apple: Apple's 11 biggest failures WHITE PAPER: IBM IBM PureData System for Analytics compared with Teradata This report from ITG compares the cost and time to value of IBM PureData System for Analytics with that of Teradata DW Appliance 2750 using comparable applications and workloads. Read how IBM is more cost-effective and enables faster deployment. Learn More Apple Watch and Apple Pay attract some non-Apple converts at CTIA show Announcements of the Apple Watch and Apple Pay on Tuesday caught the attention of hundreds of IT professionals at a keynote presentation during the CTIA's Super Mobility Week. Read More Apple's iPhone, iWatch launch event -- live blog A real-time summary of events during Apple's big news September 9 keynote. Read More The Evolution of Apple's iPhone The iPhone has come a long way in seven years. Read More iPhone narrative pivots from low-cost to higher prices A year ago, the narrative just before Apple launched the new iPhone 5S and 5C was all about cheaper prices. This year, that's been flipped and the talk is now about higher iPhone prices.What happened in the last 12 months to change the iPhone plotline so dramatically?"Last year there was lots of pressure, mostly by Wall Street analysts, that claimed [for Apple] to grow its user base, it had to lower prices," said Ben Bajarin, an analyst at Creative Strategies. "Now that people have realized that lower-priced smartphones are not really that profitable, people in general, but Wall Street specifically, seem to have come back to the recognition that Apple's best strategy is to dominate the high end."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More iOS 7 hits 90% share, iOS 8 likely to ship Sept. 17 With just hours before Apple announces new iPhones, an ad network trolling its traffic data said that iOS 7, which will be replaced next week on most customers' devices, was running 90% of all North American iPhones and iPads.The uptake on iOS 7, which was released Sept. 18, 2013, had reached 90% of all iOS devices in the U.S. and Canada by Aug. 31, according to Chitika. The online ad network regularly mines its data to publicize statistics about operating system and browser usage.Like Irish metrics vendor StatCounter, Chitika's numbers are best described as "usage share" since the firm measures how active users of a specific OS are on the Web. Because both StatCounter and Chitika tally usage, not users, the numbers may have no relation to the "user share" -- analogous to the installed base -- which other analytics companies, like Net Applications, tout.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Apple hands over $57M to CEO after stellar S&P performance Apple CEO Tim Cook received more than half a million shares two weeks ago as part of a long-standing compensation plan -- the full amount of the stock due him because of Apple's performance on Wall Street. Read More Apple's mobile payment rolling out despite problems If lack of data visibility is crippling Apple, what chance do mere IT mortals have? Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Prioritize Capacity Planning with BMC Capacity Optimization Current trends underscore the requirement for truly global and adaptable capability for optimizing capacity across domains with full insight into business service outcomes. Learn why EMA has put BMC in the lead as the vendor with the fullest breadth and depth of its capacity optimization capabilities. Learn More Apple to expand, recast iPhone portfolio Apple will restructure its 2014-15 iPhone portfolio, analysts said, by dumping the iPhone 5C experiment but keeping the three-year-old iPhone 4S to sell at even lower prices in markets such as India. Read More The Devil wears Apple: Invites to Tuesday's event signal smartwatch's fashionable intent Apple invited prominent fashion editors and bloggers to its Sept. 9 product launch event, strong signals not only that will it introduce a line of wearable devices but that it will emphasize form as much as function. Read More Forget the iPhone: It's all about iWatch Ten years from now, nobody will remember the announcement of the iPhone 6. They will, however, remember the launch of the Apple iWatch. Read More Apple, iCloud take reputation hits after photo scandal Apple has denied that hackers breached its iCloud service to steal celebrities' intimate photos, but the wave of stories and blogs about the hacks have damaged the company' reputation. Read More Apple CEO vows to tighten iCloud security Apple, still reeling from the nude celebrity photo breach, plans to strengthen security around its iCloud service, according to CEO Tim Cook. Read More Crisis comm expert applauds Apple's Cook for stepping up, talking about photo scandal Apple's CEO yesterday took the unusual step of publicly commenting on the theft of hundreds of intimate photographs from celebrities' iPhones. Read More Greenpeace says everyone should copy Apple Apple is doing more than any other manufacturer to reduce the damage it does to the environment, says Greenpeace. Read More Rotten Apple: Apple's 11 biggest failures Apple sets the standard -- for both success and failure. Here's a look at 11 major screwups, some of which almost derailed the company Read More
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