iOS 8, the Firefox phone, and Africa

My week with the Firefox phone | For the future of mobile, look to Africa Follow CITEworld BY IDG ENTERPRISE June 16, 2014 InCITE Your twice weekly digest of the most important developments in the consumerization of IT An IT pro's guide to Apple iOS 8 Apple's upcoming iOS 8 offers a range of new features for consumers that will make their devices more personal than ever. It also delivers a very complete range of security and management features and illustrates Apple's commitment to meeting the needs of enterprise IT. Here are the key things that IT professionals need to know about iOS 8. White Paper: Code42 Checklist for Enterprise-Readiness Read on for a list of Netskope's key criteria that led to CrashPlan's top placement. Learn More My week with the Firefox phone Mozilla's Firefox OS offers up a simple, web-focused smartphone that feels very similar to the original iPhone (before the App Store) and webOS. It's a great platform for mobile novices, but feels limited compared to iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry. Resource compliments of: CITEworld InCITE Social Collaboration Enabling more effective collaboration between groups is one of the hardest and most important tasks an IT pro faces -- if you don't provide the right tools, users will bring their own. Stay up to date with the latest news and tips about enterprise social networking, file-sharing, and group collaboration tools, plus real-world success stories. Subscribe For the future of mobile, look to Africa Africa has already leapfrogged us in mobile adoption; it could leapfrog us in mobile-everything else, too. Moving beyond data scientists to a true data democracy A new generation of data analytics software is designed to be used by regular employees and not highly trained specialists. Someday you'll swallow these sensors to monitor your health Proteus Digital Health is working on releasing sensors that are taking orally with medicine to help doctors manage prescriptions. OnLive: Troubled gaming company throws a Hail Mary PaaS OnLive, which started as a service to stream cutting-edge video games, is pivoting into delivering graphics-rich apps via the cloud. SiSense can crunch big data even on small machines With $30 million in new funding, SiSense is looking to promote its business intelligence technology that can crunch big volumes of data even on small machines. Confirmed: Okta raises $75 million, CEO explains plans Cloud identity sign-on provider Okta raised a $75 million round of Series E funding led by Sequoia Capital as it tries to build its product and take over the world. Leap Motion aims to help computers understand the human hand The pioneering gesture-control startup continues to make strides in replicating complicated hand motions. Software defined radio, part 2: Mac OS X and Windows In this final installment about Software Defined Radio (SDR), we learn how to using a Realtek RTL2832U based SDR dongle with a Mac OS X or Windows computer. PCs still not dead: Businesses are buying more than Intel expected Intel just upgraded earnings thanks to stronger than expected sales of business PCs Design is more important than technology for innovation It's not the technology, it's what you do with it. Even if you're Apple. Especially if you're Apple. What IT can learn from Neil deGrasse Tyson In a keynote presentation to the GSummit gamification conference, Cosmos host and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explained what IT can learn from the massive success of Cosmos on Fox. Follow CITEworld Share this email You are currently subscribed to citeworld_weekly_update as security.world@gmail.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy Copyright (C) 2014 CITEworld, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham MA 01701 **Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@citeworld.com.**