Stainless Steel Apple Watch will reportedly be priced at $500; Gold Watch Edition at $5,000

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	Stainless Steel Apple Watch will reportedly be priced at $500; Gold Watch Edition at $5,000 Citing an anonymous source, the French website iGen.Fr reports that stainless steel versions of the Apple Watch will retail for $500 while the Gold Apple Watch Edition models may retail for as high as $5000.Apple of course has been rather quiet on Apple Watch pricing, aside from indicating that lower tier pricing will begin at $349 for the Apple Watch Sport models. That being the case, a $150 bump for stainless steel models isn't outside the realm of reason.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Integrating Mobility with Unified Access Meeting mobility demands of 4500 students, faculty and staff at a university is no small task. Join this Webcast to hear the Director of Enterprise Infrastructure explain the steps Abilene Christian University took to deliver a new level of student-faculty interaction. 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CIO.com tested these seven new business devices – ranging from PCs to routers to, yes, tables – to make sure they can withstand the rigors of a hectic workday.Acer Chromebook 13 The radical shift away from desktop apps in every corner of business continues unabated, and this low-cost laptop ($280) is a sure sign of the trend. The clamshell design – available in red, yellow and blue  – and soft-touch keys make it an attractive notebook, but zippy performance comes from the new NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor running at 2.1GHz. Plus, the Acer Chromebook 13 boots into Chrome OS for running Web apps without the speed-crippling overhead of Windows. It also comes with 100 GB of free Google Drive storage, a 10-hour battery and a 13-inch display.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More 6 things Galaxy Note 4 does that iPhone 6 can't I'm a two-smartphone kind of guy. My current smartphones of choice: The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and Apple iPhone 6.Both the Note 4 and iPhone 6 are high-end, cutting-edge devices packed with valuable and unique features. They're two of the best smartphones available today, which is why they've found homes in my pockets.Neither device is perfect, though. When you use them alongside each other, their individual strengths and weaknesses quickly become apparent.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Deliver the Future of IT Operations Today Enterprise IT operations teams are struggling to keep pace with the business as well as cope with new technology trends. Find out about a new solution that allows for increased critical business insight and a modern user experience. Learn More 6 things iPhone 6 does that Galaxy Note 4 can't I'm a two-smartphone kind of guy. My current smartphones of choice: The Apple iPhone 6 and Samsung Galaxy Note 4.Both the iPhone 6 and Note 4 are high-end, cutting-edge devices packed with valuable and unique features. They're two of the best smartphones available today, which is why they've found homes in my pockets.Neither device is perfect, though. When you use them alongside each other, their individual strengths and weaknesses quickly become apparent.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More 15 addictive video game picks from the Internet Archive's new arcade No quarter given! (Nor any required.)Yes, it’s true – the Internet Archive, stalwart home of the Wayback Machine, now has a special section for the video games of yesteryear, in the Internet Arcade. There are 902 titles available, according to the site, running on a specialized Java emulator known as JSMAME. While not all of them are working quite right yet, there’s already an impressive selection available for you to play right in your browser window. Here are some of the highlights.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Flexera Software Achieving Application Readiness Maturity Is your Application Readiness Process Ready for Change? Learn how to identify where you can make improvements, analyze the steps needed to move up in maturity, and prioritize which steps are most critical, resulting in faster and more reliable application delivery, lower costs and decreased risk. Learn More iPad Air 2 review: A great tablet gets better If you liked last year's iPad Air, you'll almost certainly like this year's version, unveiled early last month (along with the 5K Retina iMac) by Apple CEO Tim Cook. The iPad Air 2 features Touch ID, a (much) faster system architecture and an aluminum enclosure that is both thinner and lighter than the first-generation iPad Air it replaces.As with previous lines, the iPad Air 2 comes as both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi/cellular models. The Wi-Fi-only devices cost $499 for 16GB of storage, $599 for 64GB and $699 for 128GB. The cellular/GPS iPads cost $130 more at the same storage tiers. Supported carriers include Sprint, AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile in the U.S.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Google's Nest thermostat becomes a faster learner with major software update Nest, the smart thermostat from Google, is about to get a little faster at learning your preferences.The company will roll out a big software update this week that includes a new, smarter algorithm for figuring out how you like the temperature set in your home and then making those changes automatically.“Enhanced auto-schedule” will be delivered for free via WiFi to all Nest thermostats in the seven countries where they’re sold. Nest has been updating the algorithm steadily over the past few years, but the company says this is the first major re-design based on customer feedback and data from tests in the U.S., Canada and the U.K.The new algorithm will allow the device to learn more quickly how people like the temperature set in their home. If someone initially preferred a morning temperature of 72 degrees Fahrenheit and then began setting their device to 69, for instance, the device will pick up on that change more quickly and start to set the temperature itself automatically, the company says.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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