Networking World: Apple launches two iPhones, targets wider market

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September 10, 2013

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Apple launches two iPhones, targets wider market

For the first time since it redefined the smartphone market in 2007 with the launch of the iPhone, Apple will sell two distinctly different versions of the handset intended to attract consumers in different markets.

Issue highlights

1. Goodbye Microsoft Office, Hello iWork

2. Clips from 6 previous iPhone debuts

3. Leaked iPhone 5S user guide touts fingerprint authorization sensor as "Touch ID"

4. Let the Windows 9 and 10 rumors begin

5. Cisco bolsters its data center strategy with WHIPTAIL acquisition

6. National Cyber Security Hall of Fame inducting five

7. National Archives wants your online vote for iconic American rights exhibit

8. Verizon, Federal Judges Challenge FCC Open Internet Order

9. How Microsoft's Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 are better suited for businesses

10. IBM follows Cisco in partnering with Continental to build networked car technology

11. This is likely how you will buy cloud resources moving forward

12. Red Hat continues to burnish Storage Server

13. Start-up offers IT security rating system

14. Cisco takes aim at security services with new division

15. Journalistic rip-off or just a coincidence?

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Goodbye Microsoft Office, Hello iWork

Clips from 6 previous iPhone debuts

Video reports on the keynotes that brought us the first six iPhones READ MORE

Leaked iPhone 5S user guide touts fingerprint authorization sensor as "Touch ID"

Apple's iPhone media event is scheduled to kick off in just about an hour, but we have one more rumor for you before things get underway. Last night the Wall Street Journal confirmed that a fingerprint authorization sensor will be a apart of the iPhone 5S. READ MORE

Let the Windows 9 and 10 rumors begin

Windows 8.1 isn't on the market yet but there is already talk of Windows 9 and 10. READ MORE

Cisco bolsters its data center strategy with WHIPTAIL acquisition

Don't expect the WHIPTAIL acquisition to be Cisco's last in the data center space. READ MORE

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National Cyber Security Hall of Fame inducting five

The National Cyber Security Hall of Fame has announced five security pioneers will be inducted next month for their work on such fronts as intrusion detection and trusted computing. READ MORE

National Archives wants your online vote for iconic American rights exhibit

It's not too often the public gets to pick what the central component of a major museum exhibit but that's what the National Archives has in mind. READ MORE

Verizon, Federal Judges Challenge FCC Open Internet Order

A panel of judges suggest that the Federal Communications Commission may have overstepped its authority in issuing rules to prevent broadband providers from blocking or discriminating against content on their networks. Verizon, specifically, is challenging the commission. READ MORE

How Microsoft's Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 are better suited for businesses

When Microsoft launches the next generation of Surface tablets in two weeks, they'll be better suited to use in enterprises than the initial offerings, making them both more mobile with longer battery life and better suited for office work with a docking station add-on that gives them Ethernet connectivity. READ MORE

IBM follows Cisco in partnering with Continental to build networked car technology

IBM this week signed up with Continental - Europe's second largest car parts company - to jointly develop automated automobile technology. READ MORE

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Computerworld Report: Wrangling Your Mobile Devices

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This is likely how you will buy cloud resources moving forward

The migration of services delivered through cloud-based resources is causing tectonic shifts across the IT vendor landscape and one area of the market that's been unsure about what it means has been channel resellers. But the channel is finally finding its groove in the cloud, according to a new study. READ MORE

Red Hat continues to burnish Storage Server

Nearly two years after the purchase of Gluster, Red Hat continues to polish the scale-out storage software for enterprises, making it more compatible with cloud services and Microsoft enterprise software. READ MORE

Start-up offers IT security rating system

It's not uncommon for companies to want to try and evaluate the IT security of another business before entering into an e-commerce arrangement. Now a start-up, BitSight Technologies, is out with what it calls a "rating" service to do exactly this, though there are limits to how far it can go at this point. READ MORE

Cisco takes aim at security services with new division

Cisco today said it would add a security arm to its existing services division with an eye toward pushing its support of its security products as well as offering a range of managed security services. READ MORE

Journalistic rip-off or just a coincidence?

Here's a little inside baseball (about a football scandal) that's either an example of blogger-on-blogger crime or merely a notable coincidence. READ MORE

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