Friday, September 09, 2011

iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending Sept. 9

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iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending Sept. 9
President Barack Obama's jobs speech this week might have been better received if he kept repeating, "Release this iPhone right away!" The iOSsphere this week seized on iPhone 4 inventory levels, carrier promotional documents, third-party phone cases, and reports of plans to build 27 million Next iPhones by January to reassure itself that The Wait is nearing an end. This week: speculation that the "iPhone 5" is really a redesigned iPod Touch with a 3G data option, and a photograph not of the iPhone 5 but taken by the iPhone 5. Read More


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Adopting Unified Communications: Key Steps to Consider
The faster your business can locate, gather and share information, the more productive and competitive you can be. That's why small and medium enterprises are upgrading to a unified communications (UC) system, which can improve customer service, streamline product development and speed response to new opportunities. Learn more. >>

Which city has the most painful commute in the world?
Los Angeles, New York and Chicago are known in the U.S. for their epic gridlock conditions, but in a global analysis by IBM, the pain of commuting in these cities is rated lower than a number of international cities where drivers say they're a lot more miserable. Read More

Warning: HIPAA has teeth and will bite over healthcare privacy blunders
Healthcare organizations that are performing risk assessments as a way to craft patient-privacy policies might want to consider a new potential attack vector: federal regulators. Read More

Verizon fires workers who ran, participated in office football pool
If you thought taking part in the office Super Bowl pool or filling out a March madness bracket at work wasn't a big deal, think again - especially if you work at Verizon. The Taunton (Mass.) Gazette today reported that Verizon fired six workers and suspended 32 others for taking part in a Super Bowl pool this year. Read More

The big, bad browser quiz
Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari -- you know the names of these Web browsers, but do you really know them? Read More


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Stop Using FTP! How to Transfer Files Securely
File Transfer Protocol (FTP), one of the oldest of Internet protocols, is still widely deployed, but it's the protocol sysadmins love to hate. Back in FTP's early days, the Internet was just a small network of computers where everyone knew everyone else, and FTP made little provision for security. Later revisions of the specification tried to add security features, but you can't fix an amputation... Read More

Conan O'Brien sees Apple going all barbarian
Funnyman Conan O'Brien, on his TBS television program, has revealed to the public a "commercial" that Apple is allegedly directing at the unknown person now in possession of an iPhone 5 prototype that went missing from a San Francisco bar recently. Watch: Read More

Droid Bionic smartphone impresses iFixit
Motorola's new Droid Bionic is not only a top-notch device but the Android smartphone is also very easy to fix, according to repair specialists at iFixit. Read More

Network troubleshooting gets smarter, faster with 'Network Traffic Visibility'
When it comes to managing the network, even realtime monitoring isn't fast enough anymore. You need to be able to predict what will happen next. I've recently started tracking a technology that can help with this challenge. There's no name for this market but I like to think of it as the Network Traffic Visibility (NTV) market. Read More


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Whoops! Microsoft leaks patch info four days early
Microsoft jumped the gun today by prematurely releasing information on all five of the security updates it plans to ship next Tuesday. Read More

Age Bias in IT: The Reality Behind the Rumors
Age bias: Some consider it IT's dirty little secret, or even IT's big open secret. Most high-tech employers would likely deny that age discrimination is an issue at their company. But many IT workers over 50 beg to differ, saying they have experienced age bias or know someone who has. Read More

Unboxing the Seagate GoFlex Desk 4TB external hard drive
Network World's Keith Shaw opens up the new 4TB GoFlex Desk external hard drive from Seagate and tries to explain how much storage space 4TB represents through the power of small chocolate candies. Read More

Google apologizes for Docs outage
A software upgrade that went wrong caused parts of the Google Docs cloud-hosted office productivity suite to go offline for an hour on Wednesday, a situation the company is taking steps to prevent. Read More

 
 
 

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