Intel to buy Lantiq in a push to make more home devices connected

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	Intel to buy Lantiq in a push to make more home devices connected In its push to connect as many gadgets to the Internet as possible, Intel has agreed to buy Lantiq, a German company that makes broadband access and home networking technology. 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 Apple ships iTunes 12.1: What you need to know Raspberry Pi 2 is 6 times faster than Pi 1, supports Windows 10 Brief: Tesla boosts 0-60 acceleration with over-the-air software upgrade 7 smartphone rules changed this week Microsoft to business: Don't worry about Windows 10, consumers will test it MIT randomizes tasks to speed up massive multicore processors Now on CIO: 5 affordable hardware upgrades Apple puts the big hurt on Samsung Android apostates account for 1-in-5 U.S. iPhone sales Warning: #AppleWatch April likely US first WHITE PAPER: Attachmate Six Ways To Re-Think Your File Movement Strategies As organizations re-think their file movement strategies, they need better visibility over files and file movements, better management of file access, and better governance of file actions. Learn More Apple ships iTunes 12.1: What you need to know Apple has introduced iTunes 12.1, bringing a handy Notifications Center widget and some additional slight improvements to the software. Read More Raspberry Pi 2 is 6 times faster than Pi 1, supports Windows 10 A faster Raspberry Pi 2 computer is now shipping without a rise in price, and for the first time it will support Microsoft's Windows 10 OS for the development of smart devices and appliances. Read More Brief: Tesla boosts 0-60 acceleration with over-the-air software upgrade Using a capability that other carmakers hope to mimic some day, Elon Musk tweeted today that the Tesla P85D just got a software upgrade over wireless that boosted its acceleration. Read More 7 smartphone rules changed this week Federal regulators have been throwing their weight around lately, and mostly to good effect for consumers and users of mobile technology.The net effect of their recent activism adds up to a whole new set of rules and protections for all of us.Here are the ramifications of seven new rules.1. Carriers can't throttle 'unlimited" data plans anymore. The Federal Trade Commission ordered prepaid mobile provider TracFone to pay a fine of $40 million. The transgression? It throttled (deliberately slowed down) the data connectivity of customers who had been sold "unlimited" data plans.Mobile data providers like AT&T and others often used to have it both ways: They charged high fees for "unlimited" plans, whose performance slowed to a crawl once the user reached a specific monthly amount of data.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Microsoft to business: Don't worry about Windows 10, consumers will test it Microsoft on Friday said consumers would become coal mine canaries who turn up bugs and problems in each Windows 10 update months before businesses have to commit to the fixes. Read More WHITE PAPER: Hitachi Data Systems Align IT with Business for Competitive Edge Learn what IT professionals recently surveyed by IDG Research had to say about the progress they're making in integrating IT and business. View more MIT randomizes tasks to speed up massive multicore processors MIT researchers have created a data structure that can help large multicore processors churn through workloads more effectively. Read More Now on CIO: 5 affordable hardware upgrades Jazz up your system's storage, memory, networking and display without breaking the bank with this desktop PC upgrade guide. Read More Apple puts the big hurt on Samsung Things are not looking so good for Samsung in the smartphone market, especially as it faces its Apple nemesis.Long the world's largest smartphone maker, Samsung is likely to see Apple iPhones rise to the top spot in 2015, pushing Samsung and its Galaxy and other smartphone models into second place.What's more, Apple is releasing in April its first Apple Watch, which could knock the wind out of smartwatch competitors including Samsung, which already has several models on the market."No question, 2015 is going to be a challenging year for Samsung," said IDC analyst Ryan Reith.There are many reasons for Samsung's decline and not all of them have to do with Apple's product superiority. What Samsung must do to reverse its declining share in smartphones and remain a competitor against Apple in smartwatches may sound like a complex marketing dilemma, but a lot comes down to Samsung's basic need to build a better overall brand reputation.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Android apostates account for 1-in-5 U.S. iPhone sales Apple CEO Tim Cook may have tapped Android "switchers" as part of the reason for the boffo iPhone sales last quarter, but a survey implied that most of those defectors lived outside the U.S.The same poll illustrated that in the U.S. iPhones are increasingly sold to current Apple customers.Earlier this week, as Cook called the quarter "staggering" and "hard to comprehend," he said that the "switcher rate" -- the proportion of first-time iPhone buyers deserting Google's Android -- was higher than the previous three cycles."The current iPhone line-up experienced the highest Android switcher rate in any of the last three launches in the three previous years," said Cook on Tuesday during an earnings call with Wall Street. "And we didn't look back to the other years. So I don't know about those."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Warning: #AppleWatch April likely US first Anticipation is building ahead of April’s Apple Watch release, and those news nuggets have begun to flow. Here’s what you need to know this week:Out and proudYou can’t introduce a device like Apple Watch without beta testing and that’s why Apple employees are using their smartwatches in public. And that’s why the public is (some claim) taking snaps of staff wearing the things to share – such as this purported image of an Apple Watch in Subway… First Apple Watch spotted in public..at a Subway :p pic.twitter.com/0FSpHIN1OVTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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