Could iOS 9 be Apple’s greatest gift to enterprise IT?

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	Could iOS 9 be Apple's greatest gift to enterprise IT? The latest version of Apple's mobile platform includes several workplace-centric features designed to make the company's devices more useful to corporate users and the IT departments that have to manage them. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems 2014 Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers Citrix is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers for the eighth consecutive year: the Gartner Magic Quadrant Report focuses on vendor's ability to solve complex application deployment challenges. Don't miss this chance to learn from Gartner's independent research. Learn more >> In this Issue Celebrating 25 years of wacky Ig Nobel Prize brilliance FreedomPop kisses up to iPhone 6S users INSIDER How to plan your mobile strategy LTE standard for machines gets the green light Settings in iOS 9: Every notable change you need to know New products of the week 09.21.2015 INSIDER Review: Parallels 11 delivers seamless Windows/Mac integration Chip card reality check: Oct. 1 deadline termed a 'soft incentive' Malware implants on Cisco routers revealed to be more widespread Early iPhone 6S reviews: Apple's got another winner WHITE PAPER: IBM The Total Economic Impact of IBM MobileFirst Platform Review this Forrester study to understand the potential return on investment (ROI) you may realize by deploying IBM MobileFirst Platform. Learn More Celebrating 25 years of wacky Ig Nobel Prize brilliance Honoring research that makes you laugh AND think. Read More FreedomPop kisses up to iPhone 6S users FreedomPop on Tuesday announced its plan to lure iPhone 6S (and iPhone 6) users with a free wireless service just for them.Jumping at the opportunity to attract customers whose networks don't come tied to specific carrier networks, FreedomPop is offering iPhone customers free service of 500 MBs of data, 500 texts and 200 voice minutes per month. What's more, customers will get an additional 5GBs of data on activation and free international calling to over 62 countries. FreedomPop says this plan is heavier on data than past offerings.MORE: 11 reasons you should upgrade to iPhone 6STo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More INSIDER How to plan your mobile strategy In case you weren't already making your websites mobile-friendly, you (along with the rest of Corporate America) have gotten several wake-up calls over the past months.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More WHITE PAPER: XO Communications Putting the Kibosh on Shadow IT Read this paper to learn best practices for setting up an internal, IT-based cloud brokerage function that service the entire organization. Find out how this approach enables you to retain top-down visibility and control of network security and manage the impact of cloud traffic on your WAN. Learn More LTE standard for machines gets the green light The 3GPP has agreed to set a standard for a form of LTE that can connect millions of small, battery-powered IoT devices like sensors and meters. Read More Settings in iOS 9: Every notable change you need to know Once you upgrade to iOS 9, take some time to peruse the Settings app to tweak it just to your liking. Read More New products of the week 09.21.2015 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as BMC and IBM. Read More WHITE PAPER: NTT DATA Tackling ERP Complexity This IDG research report explores the need to simplification of the ERP landscape and maps out the value of strategic partners in digital business. Learn More INSIDER Review: Parallels 11 delivers seamless Windows/Mac integration If you’re an end user who wants the best-of-both-worlds experience of running Windows on a Mac, or if you’re an IT admin who wants to gain more control over the Macs running on your network, Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac is a great option.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More Chip card reality check: Oct. 1 deadline termed a 'soft incentive' Despite an Oct. 1 deadline for U.S. merchants to accept secure chip-enabled credit and debit cards, experts believe it will take years for the conversion."Realistically, we should expect the adoption of chip cards in the U.S. to take a few years," said Avivah Litan, an analyst at Gartner who has been following the conversion for a decade, in an interview this week.Oct. 1 is the deadline for merchants to begin using newer point-of-sale terminals to accept chip cards. Meanwhile, banks are steadily sending chip cards to millions of customers as replacements for magnetic stripe cards. Chip cards are more secure than the older technology, and the U.S. is one of the latest countries to make the conversion.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Malware implants on Cisco routers revealed to be more widespread Attackers have installed malicious firmware on nearly 200 Cisco routers used by businesses from over 30 countries, according to Internet scans performed by cybercrime fighters at the Shadowserver Foundation.Last Monday, FireEye subsidiary Mandiant warned about new attacks that replace the firmware on integrated services routers from Cisco Systems. The rogue firmware provides attackers with persistent backdoor access and the ability to install custom malware modules.At the time Mandiant said that it had found 14 routers infected with the backdoor, dubbed SYNful Knock, in four countries: Mexico, Ukraine, India and the Philippines. The affected models were Cisco 1841, 8211 and 3825, which are no longer being sold by the networking vendor.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Early iPhone 6S reviews: Apple's got another winner As I await my iPhone 5 replacement -- a shiny new iPhone 6S -- to make its way from the FedEx facility in Tennessee, I'm stuck reading early access reviews of the new Apple smartphones. And while my motivation to get the phone was driven more by my son's push to get my current phone than for me to acquire a new one, the reviews now do have me looking forward to getting my hands on the 6S.I've been most interested in the iPhone 6S's improved camera, 12mp on the back camera and 5mp on the front (not that I'm a big selfie guy). Early reviews are that the cameras are better and that the new Live Photos feature (think Harry Potter moving paintings) is more gimmicky than addictive.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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