Thursday, April 18, 2013

9 Top iPhone and iPad Productivity and Time Management Apps

Open Networking Foundation director details SDN directions, OpenDaylight impact

New photos purport to show rear shell of rumored low-cost iPhone

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April 18, 2013
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9 Top iPhone and iPad Productivity and Time Management Apps

These days everyone is trying to do more with less--and time is no exception. Learn how to squeeze the most out of your busy day using these time management and productivity apps for Apple's iOS devices.

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Open Networking Foundation director details SDN directions, OpenDaylight impact

The third annual Open Networking Summit, an SDN conference organized by the Open Networking Foundation, convened this week just after ONF members Cisco and IBM unveiled a separate effort to define an open source SDN framework. Unlike the user-driven ONF, OpenDaylight is a vendor-driven project to cultivate a system of SDN applications, but it also raised suspicion of the group's real intent: Is it designed to stall SDN's momentum and the threat, real or perceived, it could pose to incumbent hardware vendors? ONF Executive Director Dan Pitt discussed some of these topics with Network World Managing Editor Jim Duffy at the Santa Clara, Calif., conference. READ MORE

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New photos purport to show rear shell of rumored low-cost iPhone

The photo below purports to be of Apple's rumored low cost iPhone. The leak comes courtesy of case manufacturer Tactus, who earlier in the week also released photos which allegedly showed the front and rear casing parts for the 5th generation iPad. The photo depicts an iPhone with what appears to be a plastic shell, which of course is in line with what previous rumors have suggested. READ MORE

Google cloud open for business – includes $400 cover charge

Google earlier this month made a significant cloud announcement, opening up its infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering to customers and removing the beta tag from the service. READ MORE

Popular home routers contain critical security vulnerabilities

Thirteen popular home and small office routers contain security problems that could allow a hacker to snoop or modify network traffic, according to new research. READ MORE

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Why a 7-inch Surface tablet would be a mistake for Microsoft

For the past couple of weeks, the web has been buzzing with rumors and speculation that Microsoft is working on a 7-inch version of its Surface Tablet. There has been no official word from Microsoft, of course, but if you look at current market trends, introducing a smaller tablet would seem to make a lot of sense. The popularity of the iPad Mini, Kindle Fire and Google's Nexus 7 are clear indicators... READ MORE

Kaspersky Lab launches world's first anti-malware product for UEFI

Microsoft Malware Protection Center recently discovered a sneaky Trojan that deletes its components to stop forensic investigators and researchers from analyzing it. The downloader was the payload. On the MMPC blog, Jonathan San Jose wrote about TrojanDownloader:Win32/Nemim.gen!A: READ MORE

Intel's mobile transition struggles are Microsoft's advantage

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Windows 8 touch laptop prices to hit $200 by the holidays, Intel CEO says

Intel held its first quarter earnings call for 2013 on Tuesday, and the Q&A with analysts afterwards was full of bold declarations about how cheap touch-enabled PCs and other Intel-loaded touchable gadgets were going to get. READ MORE

Verizon posts gains on mobile, FiOS growth

Verizon Communications reported an increase in revenue and a double-digit spike in net income for the first quarter of 2013, compared to a year earlier, driven largely by gains in mobile customers and in revenue from its FiOS service. READ MORE

Microsoft files patent for new open windows viewer

Microsoft last week filed a patent application for a new method of browsing through open windows on the desktop that builds on an older, now-abandoned feature in Windows Vista and Windows 7. READ MORE

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