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	FAQ: iPhone 5 and 5GHz Wi-Fi The iPhone 5's support of 5GHz Wi-Fi means clean spectrum, more channels, but shorter range Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Sprint Streamline your business with UC&C from Sprint If you're still weighed down by an outdated communications infrastructure, you're holding your business back. Our comprehensive cloud-based unified communications & collaboration (UC&C) solution offers a risk-mitigating migration strategy, providing scalability, network & cost efficiency, greater reliability, & enhanced mobility for all employees. GET THE DETAILS In this Issue Forget iPhone 5: 10 Top Apple Alternatives Never mind iPhone 6 through 9: Here's iPhone 10 Why innovative app developers choose Android first Three BYOD approaches -- and the budget impact T-Mobile's latest iPhone 5 Week cry for attention: Tappy the robot iPhone 5 slideshow: Details are in the pictures Apple's iPhone: The untold story Apple's overlooked iTunes and iPod announcements How did Android users, celebrities and the rest of Twitter react to the iPhone 5 announcement? Undercover journalist lands job building iPhones at Foxconn, confirms fears about working conditions FCC to move on sharing scheme that could free up 100MHz of wireless spectrum Hottest Google Android news & rumors for the week ending Sept. 14 Integrating MDM into IT service management is key to operational efficiency in a mobile world iPhone 5: Why no NFC? Lawmaker pushes mobile privacy legislation iPhone 5 For $449, No Thanks! iPhone 5: Decisions, decisions WHITE PAPER: Condusiv Technologies (formerly Diskeeper Corporation) Optimize Your Storage Volume for Better Performance Managing a windows network? This brief discusses 5 technical proof-points clearly showing how the Windows Built-in Disk Defragmenter is not adequate for the enterprise. New innovations in Diskeeper® and V-locity® meet today's demands for optimal storage and system performance. Read Now! Forget iPhone 5: 10 Top Apple Alternatives You may have heard: Apple just unveiled a shiny new iPhone, the iPhone 5. But there's so much more to the smartphone world than just iPhones. Here's a list of 10 of the best currently available or coming-soon smartphones to make you forget all about Apple. Read More Never mind iPhone 6 through 9: Here's iPhone 10 Read More Why innovative app developers choose Android first Developers seeking to build highly differentiated mobile apps usually lean toward native apps. This decision in turn leads to a platform decision between Android and iOS. What are the unique reasons app developers choose Android as their first platform when building a unique new business? Two emerging businesses Pictoreo and Tovbot are great studies for understanding this choice. Read More Three BYOD approaches -- and the budget impact Love it or hate it, BYOD is likely already affecting security, network performance and your budget (it can drive up costs by more than a third, according to some researchers). Here are three approaches to address these challenges. Read More T-Mobile's latest iPhone 5 Week cry for attention: Tappy the robot T-Mobile has released a video showcasing an engineering robot in its labs called Tappy that taps away on iPhones and other smartphones to ensure they're up to snuff. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks Expert Advice to Mitigate BYOD Risks Long derided as an overhyped concept, network access control (NAC) has emerged as an important solution for mitigating the risks of consumerization. Network and security managers will need NAC to retain control of the network in a "bring your own device" (BYOD) environment. Read now. iPhone 5 slideshow: Details are in the pictures Apple iPhone 5 is longer and thinner, more powerful, and boasts LTE Read More Apple's iPhone: The untold story Apple is one of the most secretive companies on the planet, so the Apple-Samsung trial was fascinating in that it lifted the veil of secrecy that typically shrouds Apple's operations. From marketing budgets to photos of never-before-seen iPhone prototypes, the evidence introduced at trial gave the world an unprecedented glimpse into the inner workings of Apple. Read More Apple's overlooked iTunes and iPod announcements Read More How did Android users, celebrities and the rest of Twitter react to the iPhone 5 announcement? While it seemed like everyone with an internet connection was running or reading a live-blog of Apple's iPhone 5 announcement today, plenty of people took to Twitter to respond to what they were hearing. Samsung was the first and most obvious Android supporter to crash the iPhone party. The company appeared to have purchased promoted Tweets to show up when people searched both the term "iPhone 5" and... Read More Undercover journalist lands job building iPhones at Foxconn, confirms fears about working conditions A journalist working for Chinese news agency the Shanghai Evening Post might bring the Apple-crazed public back to reality on the day of the company's iPhone 5 announcement, releasing a report based on one of its reporters' 10-day stint working at the infamous Foxconn factory where the iPhone 5 was assembled. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Why IBM Operational Decision Management? A case for business users of information technology. Learn More. FCC to move on sharing scheme that could free up 100MHz of wireless spectrum The U.S. Federal Communications Commission says it will act by the end of the year on a White House-appointed panel's recommendation to have federal agencies share 100MHz of spectrum with commercial users. Read More Hottest Google Android news & rumors for the week ending Sept. 14 I'm sorry that I'm going to take up page space with a discussion of non-Android matters in this column, but it would be remiss of me not to comment on the iPhone 5 rollout this week, and its implications for the Android ecosystem. Read More Integrating MDM into IT service management is key to operational efficiency in a mobile world With the popularity of the bring-your-own-device movement, IT teams are turning to mobile device management (MDM) software to manage mobile policy, inventory and security. However, many MDM tools are stand-alone and do not easily integrate into the IT service management (ITSM) strategy, a disconnect that commonly results in inefficiencies and misunderstandings. For this reason, many enterprises are turning to integrated solutions. Read More iPhone 5: Why no NFC? Apple left out near-field communication technology in the new iPhone 5, a decision that one NFC backer said could be Apple's loss. But several mobile payment experts said Apple was right to wait, given the slow rollout of NFC, especially in the U.S. Read More Lawmaker pushes mobile privacy legislation A new bill in the U.S. Congress would require mobile phone makers, network providers and application developers to disclose to customers any monitoring software installed on their mobile devices. Read More iPhone 5 For $449, No Thanks! I really wanted to stay away from writing yet another iPhone 5 story. Probably as much as you wanted to stay away from reading another iPhone 5 story. But I just had to write this after being assaulted by AT&T this morning. I tried to pay my bill today and could not get to the account page without them soliciting me to buy a new phone. I use the term assaulted because I am feeling pretty beat up by... Read More iPhone 5: Decisions, decisions Read More
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