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	iPhone 7 rumor rollup: Thicker and curvier devices, but beware "smartphone elbow" iPhone 7 and iPhone 6S rumors include the possibility of thicker new smartphones from Apple, more flexible wireless carrier connectivity, plus a warning about the physical dangers of using heavier iPhones. Read More WHITE PAPER: Kony Inc Mobility in 2015: The Essential Mobility Guidebook Bring business and IT leaders together with these 10 New Rules for Mobile Strategy and Success. Learn More In this Issue Technology, the law, and you: BYOD INSIDER 6 ways the Chromebook changed my life (and one way it didn't) How phone companies drive people crazy New products of the week 07.20.2015 T-Mobile to pay $17.5 million fine for 911 outages Mobirise: A free, simple, drag and drop mobile responsive Web site builder ALMOST off the grid at Yellowstone, Glacier national parks INSIDER Review: The best browsers for Android smartphones Windows 10 vs. Windows 8: Performance benchmarks show a close battle for fastest INSIDER Wells Fargo's mobile banking redesign includes biometrics, tracks customer insights WHITE PAPER: PC Connection Acer: Proven Solutions for Professional Demands Whether your workforce requires high-tech mobility, powerful desktops to streamline efficiency, reliable technology available 24 x 7, or competent tools for viewing and projecting, you'll find your solution in Acer notebooks, desktops, servers, monitors, and projectors. Acer provides solutions for you. Learn more. Technology, the law, and you: BYOD (First in an occasional series about technology and the law.)For a long time, it seemed that, like death and taxes, BYOD was inescapable. The issue wasn’t that employees wanted to use their personal smartphones on your network, it’s that they were definitely going to do so whether you like it or not.But there are consequences to the convenience and lack of up-front costs associated with BYOD, due largely to the fact that security gets substantially more complicated – both for private employee data and for sensitive corporate information.+ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: Microsoft explains timing of Windows 10 updates + Digital Trust in the IoT Era: 54% of people don't trust security protecting their info +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More INSIDER 6 ways the Chromebook changed my life (and one way it didn't) In December 2010, I got a surprise, an early Christmas gift from Google: The company sent me a Cr-48, the first-model Chromebook, which I reviewed at the time. From that point on, I used it nearly every day, mostly for web browsing and writing assignments.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More How phone companies drive people crazy Every journalist has experienced this type of phone call, as have librarians, police dispatchers and I presume those in a number of other public-facing professions. This one involves a longtime friend who works for a CBS news affiliate and prefers to remain anonymous. CALLER: “Hi, could you give me the phone number for FOX 5 in (a major city)?”JOURNALIST: “I'm sorry?”CALLER: “FOX 5. The TV station. Do you have the number?”JOURNALIST: “Why do you want the number?”CALLER: “Why do you want to know?”JOURNALIST: “Are you calling them about a story?”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent The Three Industry Trends Changing Enterprise IT This webinar will look at how CIOs can leverage three intersecting trends – cloud, new technologies, and web-scale IT – to help their companies respond rapidly to new business opportunities. Learn More New products of the week 07.20.2015 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as HP and CA. Read More T-Mobile to pay $17.5 million fine for 911 outages A settlement with the FCC requires the company to improve the reliability of its emergeny dialing service Read More Mobirise: A free, simple, drag and drop mobile responsive Web site builder I just discovered a free tool called Mobirise for building mobile and responsive Web sites that is, I think, quite excellent and definitely worth checking out. Read More WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems Optimizing Application Traffic on MPLS WAN Links MPLS is a common type of service offering that removes much of the cost and complexity of more traditional point-to-point networks. The change from point-to-point to any-to-any or cloud networking presents new application delivery challenges, requiring a response from services that depend on the packet delivery infrastructure. Learn more >> ALMOST off the grid at Yellowstone, Glacier national parks I'd heard that I might be cut off from cellphone service when visiting Yellowstone National Park and Glacier National Park for the first time earlier this month, but didn't quite believe it until I got there. Sure enough, my Verizon-powered iPhone showed No Service most of the time I was there, pretty much to my relief. Read More INSIDER Review: The best browsers for Android smartphones InfoWorld compares Chrome, CM Browser, Dolphin, Firefox, InBrowser, and UC Browser on speed, features, and HTML5 support Read More Windows 10 vs. Windows 8: Performance benchmarks show a close battle for fastest Windows 10 performance is one of the hardest things to nail down right now. Testing of the new OS, due to ship on July 29, isn’t exactly easy, because the public doesn’t yet have a way to install the RTM version. Microsoft has been pretty mum about any under-the-hood changes. Even worse, Microsoft's hardware partners have been handcuffed from talking about the OS at all.One thing we do know: Among the many big changes over Windows 8, Windows 10 may literally change the game in graphics performance as the only Microsoft OS with DirectX 12. Early testing of the OS shows performance gains elsewhere will be far smaller, though.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More INSIDER Wells Fargo's mobile banking redesign includes biometrics, tracks customer insights Input from Wells Fargo's commercial banking customers has been vital in steering a massive mobile banking redesign project, according to a bank executive. Read More
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