Pricing a low-cost iPhone: How ‘cheap’ is cheap?

Hurry up and wait: Why Microsoft's holding Windows 8.1 The Enterprise Security Model Is Experiencing "Death by a Thousand Cuts" Network World Daily News PM August 15, 2013 Share this email Pricing a low-cost iPhone: How 'cheap' is cheap? Though still unsubstantiated, a low-cost iPhone is now widely seen as a possible product announcement in early September, along with a new high-end phone. And it's finally possible to create a coherent explanation of why such a move makes sense for Apple in 2013. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Hurry up and wait: Why Microsoft's holding Windows 8.1 2. The Enterprise Security Model Is Experiencing "Death by a Thousand Cuts" 3. Google patches Android after Bitcoin wallet issue 4. A bunch of companies just made a bunch of money in the cloud 5. Debate roils: Has NASA's Voyager spaceship left our solar system – or not? 6. 1981 news report on internet downplays internet's threat to news 7. Baby monitor hack highlights manufacturers' security shortfalls 8. iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending August 14 9. Beyond Google Glass: The wearable tech that will revolutionize business 10. If a dollar weighed a pound there'd be more blue whales   Hurry up and wait: Why Microsoft's holding Windows 8.1 Microsoft's decision to sit on Windows 8.1 for two months after engineers wrap up work was driven by the year's biggest sales cycles, analysts said. READ MORE The Enterprise Security Model Is Experiencing "Death by a Thousand Cuts" If enterprise security were an automobile it would be a Ford Taurus circa 1995. Good car way back when and still running but burning oil, barely passing inspection, and held together by bondo today. READ MORE Google patches Android after Bitcoin wallet issue Google is distributing patches for a cryptography flaw in Android that may affect hundreds of thousands of applications. 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READ MORE Debate roils: Has NASA's Voyager spaceship left our solar system – or not? Sometimes there's nothing like a good argument to stir things up. There is one juicy one that has been in the making for over a year now but seems to be getting to a boiling point: Has NASA's Voyager spacecraft left out universe or not? READ MORE 1981 news report on internet downplays internet's threat to news In 1981, a San Francisco TV news station reported on some of the world's first internet users - San Francisco newspaper editors who were overseeing a new investment aimed at streamlining newspaper operations. Little did they know how successful it would be. Calling it "the newest form of electronic journalism," the reporter explains how editors at the San Francisco Examiner used an early phone-based... READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Hitachi and Microsoft Telecom Partners Host Software as a Service Hitachi Telecom Partners Host SaaS on Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select for Microsoft Private Cloud. It supports advanced capabilities, such as managed hosting, on-demand virtual servers, clustering and network services. Learn more Baby monitor hack highlights manufacturers' security shortfalls In addition to lax passwords, manufacturer lacks a effective way to get its patches and updates out to customers. READ MORE iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending August 14 The iOSphere is still conflicted over the iPad 5 and iPad mini dates, whether it's the start date for mass manufacturing, for the product announcement, or the availability. Eventually, someone is bound to be right. READ MORE Beyond Google Glass: The wearable tech that will revolutionize business From heads-up displays to implantable silicon, a brave new business world of innovative wearable tech is fast taking shape READ MORE If a dollar weighed a pound there'd be more blue whales That headline doesn't make any sense, you say? Well, neither does the public-relations pitch I received this morning via an email carrying this subject line: "U.S. Debt Weighs as much as 44,000 Blue Whales." Here's the first sentence: "If you take a look at the running National Debt Clock, the weight of U.S. debt is almost as much as 44,000 blue whales (if $1=1 lb) ... and there aren't even that many... READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Enterasys Networks Enabling a Software Defined Data Center Read this paper to learn how thousands of companies use software based provisioning to significantly reduce expenses associated with network operations and application delivery. Learn More. SLIDESHOWS 15 more useful Cisco sites In our never ending effort to uncover the most useful sites for Cisco users, we've come up with 15 more! 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