The best laptops of 2016: Budget PCs, 2-in-1s, Ultrabooks and more

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ITworld Today Jan 28, 2016 The best laptops of 2016: Budget PCs, 2-in-1s, Ultrabooks and more Our top picks show off the best tech advances in portable PCs, from new CPUs and GPUs to new materials and of course, Windows 10. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • EU Commissioner: Please ask me to investigate Google's tax affairs • Mingis on Tech: Retailers buy into IT (and is tech taking our jobs?) • Oracle is planning to kill an attacker's favorite: the Java browser plug-in • Smartphone growth at lowest on concerns about global economy, saturation in China • Google's VirusTotal now picks out suspicious firmware • Verizon is building for the Super Bowl and staying for the boom • Apple is in a position to overtake Samsung as world's top chip buyer • Outlook for iOS gets a calendar widget as Sunrise's sunset looms • Improved comments come to Google Apps on mobile • Samsung profit plummets on weak smartphone sales • As video surges, Facebook considers a dedicated service • Deep learning is coming to your phone through a new Google partnership • Like Chromebooks, thumb-size PCs will bloom White Paper: BlueWolf 2015-2016 The State of Salesforce The State of Salesforce is Bluewolf's annual report of how the best companies use Salesforce. With data collected from over 1,500 Salesforce customers, this year's report uncovers trends and opportunities specific to each Salesforce cloud. Read More ▶ EU Commissioner: Please ask me to investigate Google's tax affairs Read More ▶ Video Mingis on Tech: Retailers buy into IT (and is tech taking our jobs?) In Computerworld's latest video podcast, Executive News Editor Ken Mingis shops for details about why retailers are embracing tech and asks about a report that technology will cost the global economy 7 million jobs by 2020.... Watch Now ▶ Oracle is planning to kill an attacker's favorite: the Java browser plug-in Next year, the Java browser plug-in, which is frequently the target of Web-based exploits, will be retired by Oracle. Read More ▶ Smartphone growth at lowest on concerns about global economy, saturation in China Smartphone shipment growth was at its lowest ever in the fourth quarter of 2015 on account of the maturity of major markets like China and consumer concerns about the global economy, according to a research firm. Read More ▶ Google's VirusTotal now picks out suspicious firmware Google's VirusTotal service has added a new tool that analyzes firmware, the low-level code that bridges a computer's hardware and operating system at startup. Read More ▶ Verizon is building for the Super Bowl and staying for the boom Verizon Wireless is installing nearly 100 cells to make sure its network can handle the crush of a million or more fans around this year's big game in the San Francisco Bay Area. Almost all will stay up after the game's over. Read More ▶ Apple is in a position to overtake Samsung as world's top chip buyer Apple was the world's second largest chip buyer last year, spending over $29 billion, up by 7.1 percent compared to 2014, according to a study released by Gartner on Wednesday. Read More ▶ Outlook for iOS gets a calendar widget as Sunrise's sunset looms Microsoft quietly updated Outlook for iOS on Wednesday, with support for a calendar widget that makes it easy to see your schedule at a glance. Read More ▶ Video Improved comments come to Google Apps on mobile Google added new commenting features to its mobile productivity apps for iOS and Android Wednesday. Watch Now ▶ Samsung profit plummets on weak smartphone sales Weak demand for mobile phones and display panels pushed down Samsung's profits last quarter, and the company doesn't expect much improvement this year. Read More ▶ As video surges, Facebook considers a dedicated service Facebook is considering a dedicated service or page where users will be able watch videos and not be bothered by other content. Read More ▶ Deep learning is coming to your phone through a new Google partnership Android phones may soon get a whole lot smarter thanks to a new partnership between Google and chip maker Movidius that promises to bring machine intelligence directly into mobile devices. Read More ▶ Like Chromebooks, thumb-size PCs will bloom Thumb-size PCs like Intel's Compute Stick are still a novelty, but adoption will grow as TVs and displays increasingly become the center of entertainment and computing. Read More ▶ White Paper: IBM Corporation Agile Development: Why requirements matter Find out how requirements management can bring significant value to agile development the characteristics of an effective requirements management approach to develop complex products and systems and regulated information technology. Read More ▶

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