Intel to invest $1.5B in two Chinese chip firms

	Mac and Chromebook sales erode Windows PCs' retail share | Apple will consume 25% of all DRAM in the world next year
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	Intel to invest $1.5B in two Chinese chip firms Intel is investing $1.5 billion in two Chinese chip companies with an eye to boosting its presence in the country's booming mobile phone market. Read More WHITE PAPER: Code 42 Managed Private Cloud Protect and manage your entire enterprise continuously with Code42's simple, efficient Managed Private Cloud. Simply plug it in and rely on our data experts to manage the rest. Learn More In this Issue Mac and Chromebook sales erode Windows PCs' retail share Apple will consume 25% of all DRAM in the world next year FAA clears movie and TV drones for takeoff Samsung now offers a 3.2TB SSD Living with the Moto G (2014): How good can a budget phone be? IT skills that are in demand, and those that will be Data center consolidation pays off, feds find Smarter algorithms will power our future digital lives Tim Cook's Apple rises to 'Bendgate' challenge WHITE PAPER: Qualys Inc. Best Practices for Selecting a VMSolution Automated Vulnerability Management (VM) solutions help you discover devices running in your network, determine whether they are vulnerable to attack, find fixes to the underlying problems, and protect yourself while those fixes are being implemented. Learn More>> Mac and Chromebook sales erode Windows PCs' retail share Macs grabbed more than a quarter of all U.S. consumer personal computer sales at retail in the 10-week stretch between July 4 and Sept. 1. Read More Apple will consume 25% of all DRAM in the world next year As it introduces new products over the next year, Apple's consumption of mobile DRAM will jump from 16.5% of the industry's production volume this year to 25% in 2015. Read More FAA clears movie and TV drones for takeoff The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is taking its first major step toward opening up the skies for commercial drone use, allowing six TV and movie production companies to use drones to shoot video. Commercial flight of drones has been effectively banned by the FAA as it grapples with how to integrate drone traffic into controlled airspace while not compromising the safety of existing air traffic. But as the months have passed, it has come under increasing pressure from U.S. companies to make a ruling. Online retailer Amazon.com has been one of the most vocal, warning that it would take development of parcel-delivery drones overseas if the FAA doesn't allow commercial use soon, and numerous other companies in the movie production, agriculture, environmental and energy industries have also been lobbying to allow their drones to fly.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Samsung now offers a 3.2TB SSD The 3.2TB SM1715 drive is Samsung's highest-capacity SSD to date, and is built for reliability and durability. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Software Achieve Deeper Network Security and Application Control Next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) have emerged to revolutionize network security as we once knew it. Yet to safeguard an organization from today's ever-evolving threats, NGFWs must be able to deliver an even deeper level of network security. View Now Living with the Moto G (2014): How good can a budget phone be? It's amazing what kind of smartphone experience $180 can buy these days. Let me back up a minute: I'm not talking about $180 on contract with a carrier. When you walk into your favorite carrier's store and plunk down 200 bucks for a phone, you're actually buying a device that costs $600 to $700. They're just selling it to you at a discounted cost up front because you're promising to pay their inflated service rates for a full two years -- which lets them recoup the actual cost of the phone and then some. With the Moto G, you're paying $180 outright -- no contracts, no commitments, no obligations to pay inexplicably high monthly bills for the next 24 months of your life. You can take the phone and use it wherever you want, including at a prepaid carrier that'll charge you as little as $30 to $45 a month, no strings attached. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More IT skills that are in demand, and those that will be IT professionals seeking certifications in the coming months may get their best return with cloud and security-related certifications. Agile-related training won't hurt, either. But there are many other skills that are more likely to be valued by employers than others, according to the most recent quarterly tracking analysis by Foote Partners. This survey calculates skill rankings on what employers are willing to pay. Skills sets tracked by Foote cover two broad areas: Certified and noncertified. Certified skills are typically vendor-driven and, while potentially useful for a job, are part of product marketing. Noncertified skills reflect actual market demand by employers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Data center consolidation pays off, feds find Republicans and Democrats in Congress rarely seem to agree on anything anymore, but top members from both sides Friday offered qualified support for efforts to consolidate federal data centers. The action was prompted by a federal watchdog agency report that says U.S. data center consolidation efforts are paying off and have delivered savings of $1.1 billion. Most of these savings, $850 million or 74% of the total, were the result of efforts by the departments of Defense, Homeland Security and Treasury, according to the General Accountability Office, which measured savings from the federal data-center consolidation effort from 2011 through 2013.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Smarter algorithms will power our future digital lives Researchers are working on deep-learning algorithms that will power better search, autonomous cars, smarter smartphones and the Internet of Things. Read More Tim Cook's Apple rises to 'Bendgate' challenge That's the way to do it.Interesting timesWith "Bendgate" and a faulty software update, Apple certainly endured a couple of difficult days this week. But you can't ignore the speed and efficiency with which it responded to these unexpected challenges. It was the right thing to do.The speed of its response sets the company apart from competitors. You see, within around 48-hours the Tim Cook company had acted and responded to the problems.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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