Intel wants to banish cables, connectors with new Broadwell chips

	Broward County rolls out its own fiber ring, shifts to VoIP | Thanks to iPhone 6 sales, Apple ties with Samsung for top smartphone rank
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	Intel wants to banish cables, connectors with new Broadwell chips Intel today announced the availability of the new fifth-generation Core processors for PCs with support for technologies that eliminate a myriad of cables and connectors Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software An Insightful Approach to Optimize Mainframe MLC Spend This paper, "An Insightful Approach to Optimizing Mainframe MLC Costs," discusses how you can penetrate the complexity of IBM mainframe MLC products and the MLC price model to gain insight into the MLC cost drivers and leverage that insight to optimize MLC spend. Learn More In this Issue Broward County rolls out its own fiber ring, shifts to VoIP Thanks to iPhone 6 sales, Apple ties with Samsung for top smartphone rank Technically, you CAN do that, but... Why Apple Watch may mean lower cost iPhones Qualcomm's Snapdragon woes mount as a 'major customer' defects Good touts smartphone management for $3 per user per month Microsoft's Surface line-up posts 2nd straight profitable quarter Enterprises: Get ready to pay to go slow on Windows 10 : IBM eGuide: Enterprise Mobile App Development In this eGuide, CIO, Computerworld and InfoWorld examine trends and advice about enterprise mobile application development. Read on to learn how best to approach mobile apps in your organization. Learn More Broward County rolls out its own fiber ring, shifts to VoIP "TOO SLOW!" "It takes me over 5 minutes just to log in!" In 2009 Broward County customer complaints regarding the slowness of accessing and using Broward County's services triggered the Enterprise Technology Services' (ETS) Communications group to review the County's network architecture and determine ways to advance it. The ultimate outcome? Broward County's ETS Communications Group implemented an underground fiber optic ring and associated equipment owned and maintained by Broward County which vastly improves performance, saves $780,000 per year and made it possible to embrace IP telephony, a move that saved an additional $28,000 per year.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Thanks to iPhone 6 sales, Apple ties with Samsung for top smartphone rank The iPhone 6 has sold so well that Apple tied with Samsung for the top position in the smartphone market in the fourth quarter, closing the gap with its South Korean competitor. Both Apple and Samsung shipped 74.5 million smartphones during the period, each claiming close to 20 percent share of the market, research firm Strategy Analytics said Wednesday. It's a big change from a year ago, when Apple's iPhone 5s only helped the company gain a 17.6 percent share of the market, as opposed to Samsung's near 30 percent share. The data from Strategy Analytics comes a few days after Apple reported huge profits of $18 billion made in last year's fourth quarter, from record sales of its new smartphone.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Technically, you CAN do that, but... This school district gets its PCs from a local computer company that does a perfectly reasonable job of building them -- but the keyboards are a problem. Read More Why Apple Watch may mean lower cost iPhones "Apple will never ship a lower cost iPhone," is this song sung true, reflecting a universal law carved in rocks CEO Tim Cook carried down from Yosemite mountain? Is there any reason the song can't change?Apple Watch will change this game.Apple Watch is all the excuse Apple's going to need to justify strategic pricing reductions across its iPhone range. You see, when the device ships it will only work with iPhone models 5 and later – sure, that's a lot of phones, but it's not for everyone.To ensure its watch gets prime time, how might Apple expand the market?To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WEBCAST: HGST A Flash Crash Course on Flash-Based Architectures In this webcast, subject matter expert Bert Scalzo, chief architect at HGST, will shed light on the numerous flash-based architecture alternatives currently available to data center managers and Oracle DBAs – from the most basic non-RAC flash alternatives to truly disruptive technologies. Learn more >> Qualcomm's Snapdragon woes mount as a 'major customer' defects Qualcomm warned that its chip division will haul in less revenue than expected in the second half of the year. Read More Good touts smartphone management for $3 per user per month Good Technology is hoping its cloud-based Management Suite for mobile devices will make life easier for IT departments that don't want to rely on products from multiple vendors to manage the seemingly countless phones and tablets that employees are using for work these days. The market for mobile software is maturing and becoming more competitive, as vendors offer more functionality for less money. Good is best known for the company's app containerization technology -- software that separates an app from other apps and the OS to improve security -- but has been expanding its offerings to include mobile- device and application management. "It's a natural step since Good wants to be a more complete supplier," said Leif-Olof Wallin, research vice president at Gartner.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Microsoft's Surface line-up posts 2nd straight profitable quarter Microsoft yesterday reported a second consecutive quarter of gross profit for its Surface tablet line, and said that revenue broke the $1 billion mark for the first time. Read More Enterprises: Get ready to pay to go slow on Windows 10 Microsoft's faster-paced release cadence for Windows 10 will require enterprises to either adapt or pay for the privilege of going slow, analysts said. Read More
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