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	Apple's iBeacon turns location sensing inside out Apple's iBeacon location sensing technology, based on the Bluetooth radio in your iPhone, promises to personalize the world around you. For users, this increasingly popular technology changes the question of "Where am I?" into the announcement "Here I am!" Read More WHITE PAPER: 8x8, Inc Gartner's Unified Communications as a Service Report See what Gartner Inc., the world's leading information technology research and advisory firm, has to say about choosing the right Unified Communications solution for your business. Gartner's Magic Quadrant compares 16 of the leading UCaaS providers and names 8x8 a leader based on completeness of vision and ability to execute. Learn more >> In this Issue How Apple's iBeacon location sensing tech works Is 'Smart Lighting' Right for You and Your Home? (Connected by TCP Review) 4 Android e-reader apps: The latest word in reading Apple iWatch team has 200 people working on it; will not be FDA regulated device Google Glass: On patrol and in the air? Tip of the Hat: The 'forking' of Android is inevitable Shark Tank's tech winners & rejects WHITE PAPER: Dell Software Quantifying the Impact of Network Based Attacks This document will give you some guidelines on how to assess the impact of network-based attacks on your organization. We will look at: • Different types of network-based attacks • How those attacks can affect your bottom line • Methods of quantifying the impact of those attacks Learn more! How Apple's iBeacon location sensing tech works Technology already in many iPhones whether you realize it or not Read More Is 'Smart Lighting' Right for You and Your Home? (Connected by TCP Review) When I received an offer a couple of weeks ago to check out the Connected by TCP "home smart lighting system" -- which lets you remotely dim, control and schedule the lights around your home to turn on and off using a smartphone or tablet -- my interest was immediately piqued. I also quickly asked myself if I really want, or need, smartphone-controlled lighting and wondered whether I'd use the system when the novelty wore off. "Connected home" gadgets took center stage at the 2014 CES in January, but many of those devices seemed more gimmicky than genuinely valuable. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Software NSA Series Data Sheet Learn how your organization can be both secure and productive without compromising network performance. Dell's SonicWALL™ NSA Series next-generation firewalls utilize the latest multi-core hardware design and Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection® (RFDPI) technology, to protect your network from internal and external attacks. Read now! 4 Android e-reader apps: The latest word in reading Sometimes even a tablet is too much trouble to tote. These Android smartphone e-reader apps will make it easy to enjoy your favorite book wherever you go. Read More Apple iWatch team has 200 people working on it; will not be FDA regulated device We've seen flurry of iWatch related rumors spring up in the past few weeks, with 9to5Mac doing a great job of keeping us up to date with all of Apple's interesting hires. Earlier today, MobiHealthNews published a treasure trove of information about Apple's iWatch project, some of it new and some of it corroborating what we've already heard. Read More WHITE PAPER: Instart Logic Web Application Streaming: A Radical New Approach This whitepaper discusses: -The challenges of balancing more complex web applications, impatient users and clogged wireless networks -Web Application Streaming as a new approach to accelerating high fidelity, high resolution web experiences -Deep Dive into the components of the Instart Web Application Streaming Network™ Learn More>> Google Glass: On patrol and in the air? Google's Glass project is getting a shot in the arm as the New York Police Department and Virgin Atlantic both announce that they're testing the computerized eyeglasses. Read More Tip of the Hat: The 'forking' of Android is inevitable The open source code that made Android a success is started blunting Google's control over mobile platform. Device makers like Amazon and Nokia are modifying -- or forking -- Android's source code to support its apps rather than Google's. Read More Shark Tank's tech winners & rejects ABC's "Shark Tank" program, on which entrepreneurs make their pitches to a panel of high profile investors on national TV, isn't the final word on whether a product or service will succeed. But as last week's show featuring Egos Ventures' $1.99 Cycloramic iOS and Android app illustrates, a thumb's up on the program – not to mention a $500,00 investment -- can boost a product into the stratosphere, or in other words, to the top of the Apple App Store charts. Read More
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