Why the Apple-IBM deal matters

 

Why the Apple-IBM deal matters France to offer programming in elementary school ITworld Today July 16, 2014 Share this email Google & Novartis developing "smart" contact lens that will monitor glucose levels A contact lens that ends the need for diabetics to test their glucose levels? It sounds like science fiction but it could be a commercial product in 5 years. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Why the Apple-IBM deal matters 2. France to offer programming in elementary school 3. SAP withdraws appeal in German software resale dispute 4. Dead in Japan? Yahoo Ending has all you need 5. Fujitsu designs leaner supercomputer with fewer switches 6. Mozilla's JPEG compression slims down file sizes 7. Intel's Haswell coming to Xeon E5 chips this quarter 8. Google nixes real-name policy for Google+ 9. Intel keeps Skylake PC processors on schedule for next year 10. Yahoo revenue drops as ad business flounders White Paper: Pure Storage Using All-Flash Arrays to Solve Tier-1 Database Problems Latency is the life-blood of any database application. When transactions slow, it is often a direct result of disk contention at the storage layer driving-up storage I/O latency. Moving to an all-flash architecture for your database affords immediate and obvious performance benefits, but also introduces a whole host of operational benefits. Learn more>> Why the Apple-IBM deal matters Apple's partnership with IBM to tackle the mobile enterprise could have lasting ramifications for both companies -- as well as for rivals Google, Microsoft and BlackBerry. It could also make life a lot easier for IT staff at large enterprises. READ MORE France to offer programming in elementary school Beginning this fall, French primary school students will have the option of learning computer science READ MORE SAP withdraws appeal in German software resale dispute SAP has withdrawn its appeal in a dispute over the resale of used SAP software in Germany, according to a filing with the Higher Regional Court of Hamburg. READ MORE Dead in Japan? Yahoo Ending has all you need If you kick the bucket in Japan, Yahoo has a new service that can delete your online data as well as your mortal remains. READ MORE Fujitsu designs leaner supercomputer with fewer switches Fujitsu has developed an approach to cluster supercomputers that reduces the number of network switches by 40 percent without sacrificing performance. READ MORE White Paper: CDW Smarter Environmental Analytics Solutions This IBM Redbooks® Solution Guide describes a solution for implementing smarter environmental monitoring and analytics for oil and gas industries. The solution implements real-time monitoring of environmental data to facilitate early detection of, and response to, operational events surrounding offshore oil and gas installations. View Now Mozilla's JPEG compression slims down file sizes Mozilla has released an updated version of its JPEG compression tool that shaves down file sizes by 5 percent, a small figure but one that is significant for image-intensive Web services such as Facebook. READ MORE Intel's Haswell coming to Xeon E5 chips this quarter Intel has started shipping Xeon E5 chips based on the Haswell microarchitecture to server makers, and the chip will be in servers this quarter. READ MORE Google nixes real-name policy for Google+ Google+ may attract some new -- and mysterious -- users after Google announced Tuesday it was abolishing its real-names policy for the profiles in the service. READ MORE Intel keeps Skylake PC processors on schedule for next year Delays in Intel's production of the upcoming Broadwell chip won't push back its successor, Skylake, still expected next year. READ MORE Yahoo revenue drops as ad business flounders Yahoo reported falling sales and mixed results in its crucial advertising business on Tuesday, signaling further challenges ahead in CEO Marissa Mayer's efforts to turn around the aging company. READ MORE White Paper: IBM Guard data by implementing continuous diagnostics IBM Security offerings can help federal organizations employ a continuous diagnostics and mitigation approach to enhance and automate continuous network monitoring capabilities; correlate and analyze critical data; and increase risk-based decision-making at the federal enterprise level. Read Now GIVEAWAYS: We've got 5 copies of each of these new books to give away to some lucky ITworld readers. 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