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	Apple Watch will need to be charged daily, Tim Cook confirms There's still much we don't know about Apple's highly anticipated Apple Watch. First and foremost, we don't know when the device will launch, aside from a somewhat vague window of "early 2015." What's more, we have no idea how Apple plans to price its impressive lineup of Apple Watch devices.When Apple typically introduces a new product, it loves talking details. The Apple Watch, though, was rather light on the details. Indeed, one data point Apple neglected to mention was what type of battery life users can expect to see with the Apple Watch. And for a company that loves boasting about best-in-class battery life across its range of mobile products, the omission certainly raised a few eyebrows.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Alert Logic Best practices for facing today's log management challenges This whitepaper discusses key best practices to consider when evaluating automated log management solutions. Learn More In this Issue 10 cool new features found in iOS 8.1 Motorola's Droid Turbo packs 48 hours of battery life What it's like living on a Chromebook, Part 1 Getting chipped: Why I will live with an NFC chip implant for a year Apple Pay vs. CurrentC: Which will retailers choose? IDG Contributor Network: Carrier-agnostic SIM cards are in our future iPhone, Android users unite to boycott anti-Apple Pay retailers WHITE PAPER: Alert Logic State of Cloud Security Report In a relatively short time, cloud computing, specifically Infrastructure-as a-Service, has shifted from a new but unproven approach to an accepted, even inevitable, model. Driven by flexibility and efficiency, the question facing most organizations is which applications and workloads to move to the cloud and when. Learn More 10 cool new features found in iOS 8.1 Not your average iOS updateDon’t be fooled: iOS 8.1 is no mere “dot” release. This rapid update from Apple is chock-full of great new features, several of which could change how you work, shop, and share.iOS 8.1 is available for the iPhone 4S and later, iPad 2 and later, and iPod touch (5th generation) and later—although many of its standout features are only compatible with the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Air 2, and iPad mini 3. To get this latest release, go to Settings > General > Software Update. To take advantage of the many Continuity features included with iOS 8.1, make sure to also install OS X Yosemite on your Mac.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Motorola's Droid Turbo packs 48 hours of battery life Motorola and Verizon rolled out the latest model in the Droid smartphone family, the Droid Turbo. The smartphone will be available on Thursday starting at $199 through Verizon Wireless. Read More WHITE PAPER: VeriSign Turn to the Cloud for Website Availability & Protection Domain name system (DNS) protection is a key component to a comprehensive security plan. One of the most efficient ways to bolster DNS security is to deploy a cloud-based DNS infrastructure. This DNS Security eGuide, will review top cyber threats to DNS and identify five top reasons, along with guidance, on selecting a managed DNS service provider. Learn More>> What it's like living on a Chromebook, Part 1 I've been a Linux user (traditional desktop Linux distributions) for years and years. And Android (which is also Linux, though I don’t really consider it a traditional Linux distro) has been one of my primary computing environments over the last year or so.But there’s one Linux-based system that I've never really given a fair shot: ChromeOS.Time to change that.For the last five days I’ve been living completely on a Chromebook. All of my work and play has been done on this laptop: writing, email, graphic design…everything I do all day. During this experiment, I have had the good fortune of being able to use a Chromebook Pixel. So I should be having the optimal ChromeOS experience.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Getting chipped: Why I will live with an NFC chip implant for a year There are days when even your wife thinks you're crazy. In my case one those days was when I told her I decided to implant a near-field communication chip in my hand."You of all people? And that thing will stay in your arm for a year?" she asked incredulously. She had a point, of course, because I'm the one who always says that any possible breach of my own -- and my reader's -- privacy should be contested with all possible measures.While that may be the case, I've been living with an NFC chip in my left hand since Sept. 25. It was implanted between my thumb and index finger, and I can tell you that it hurt quite a bit. But that was mainly because of all the TV camera people trying to film it, which dragged the process out from the normal five seconds to about 30 seconds.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems 10 essential elements for secure enterprise mobility This white paper highlights 10 key points encompassing security, user experience, IT operations and BYOD to help your organization realize the full benefits of mobility. Learn more Apple Pay vs. CurrentC: Which will retailers choose? CVS and RiteAid’s much-derided break with Apple Pay makes perfect sense for them.Apple Pay, like Uber, is a good product with a great user experience, but unlike Uber, Apple Pay is not disruptive. Apple Pay won’t reduce costs or improve efficiency in the credit card payments industry, which taxes merchants 2% to 5% of top-line revenues to pay transaction fees. Merchants’ acceptance of Apple Pay is for their consumers’ convenience, no different than accepting cash, checks, and credit cards. Saving the consumer the time it takes to put down his or her iPhone to pull out a credit card is Apple Pay’s only advantage.Currently, at least three organizations are involved in every credit card transaction: the merchant acquirer bank that represents the merchant taking the payment, the issuing bank that issues the credit card to the consumer making the payment, and the credit card company that transfers the funds between them. All share the fees.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More IDG Contributor Network: Carrier-agnostic SIM cards are in our future Apple quietly introduced a carrier-agnostic SIM card for some of its latest mobile network iPads this month.SIM cards store and authenticate a device’s subscriber identity. They’re the slivers of circuit-embedded plastic that insert into the tablet or phone.Writable SIM cardsThe idea behind this new data-only SIM card concept, called an Apple SIM, is that multiple MNOs, or Mobile Network Operators, are pre-programed in the card. Users choose which carrier they want to use over time.The idea is that instead of having to swap out cards to change carriers, the user just selects from supported operators in the iPad’s Settings menu.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More iPhone, Android users unite to boycott anti-Apple Pay retailers A Redditor really describes this situation better than anyone else could: "an unholy alliance forged in the fires of hate."An expletive-laden post (on Reddit, I know, I was surprised too) to the r/Apple subreddit invites its rival r/Android subreddit to join in a boycott against retailers that are disabling near-field communication (NFC) payment terminals..The bipartisan boycott comes days after pharmacies CVS and RiteAid disabled their stores’ NFC terminals after learning that they were compatible with Google Wallet and the recently released Apple Pay. CVS and RiteAid are both members of a retailer consortium called the Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), which reportedly plans to release a competing mobile payment offering, called CurrentC, in early 2015. Since mobile payments systems can only succeed if retail stores support them, MCX companies appear to be attempting to nip the threat of Apple Pay in bud.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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