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	Hands on with Sprint's skinny bezel Aquos Crystal phone The most striking thing about Sprint’s upcoming Aquos Crystal smartphone only becomes clear when you turn its camera on.That’s when its bezel, the frame surrounding the display, becomes almost invisible.Call it a trick of the eye, but when the image from the 8-megapixel camera sensor matches the background almost perfectly, it’s very hard to notice those few millimeters surrounding the display.The edge-to-edge “borderless” display is the phone’s biggest selling point. At times it seems like you’re holding an electronic window instead of a slim phone.With the camera off, however, the screen real estate doesn’t look all that different from a garden-variety Android smartphone.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WEBCAST: IBM Charting Your Analytical Future Date: August 26, 2014, 11:00 AM EDT The ability to embed prediction into multiple business processes amplifies the value that predictive analytics delivers. Yet many still see predictive analytics as a separate activity that is the responsibility of a small team of expert analysts. Register Now>> In this Issue Best and funniest Apple iWatch design concepts Week in Tech: New phones, high-tech helmets and wet CEOs 3D scanner merges with tablet for portable object capture iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Aug. 15 Tablets with voice calling functions take off in Asia Samsung builds custom Galaxy Tab 4 Nook tablet with Barnes & Noble What Verizon exclusive? HTC's Windows Phone-powered One M8 is coming to AT&T, too 12 oddball odes to open-source WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies The Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies Book introduces you to common network performance management (NPM) issues and give you a new way of looking at solving them. This perspective allows you to see your network from your users' point of view, namely, the services and applications they use and their experience with them. Learn More Best and funniest Apple iWatch design concepts Many signs point to Apple busting into the smartwatch market by year-end with what’s generally been referred to as the iWatch. As with iPhones and iPads before it, the iWatch has received the attention of creative types looking to give Apple a few ideas…ALSO: Apple iPhone 6 conceptsTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Week in Tech: New phones, high-tech helmets and wet CEOs (Editor's Note: The following is the transcript for the video above)Nick Barber: Thanks for joining us here on World Tech Update, I'm Nick Barber.Microsoft's Devices Group has unveiled the Nokia 130, a mobile phone that costs just $25, but there's a drawback. It lacks an Internet connection and apps. With the 130, Microsoft is going after people in emerging markets who are buying their first phone. It's also a good fit for people who want a backup to complement their existing smartphones.Samsung launched its new Galaxy Alpha with a metal frame, in a bid to boost sales after the plastic design of its smartphones has been blamed for the company's recent struggles. The phone runs Android 4.4 and is powered by Exynos process with four ARM cores. It has a 4.7-inch screen, 12-megapixel camera and 2GB of RAM.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WEBCAST: IBM Charting Your Analytical Future Date: August 26, 2014, 11:00 AM EDT The ability to embed prediction into multiple business processes amplifies the value that predictive analytics delivers. Yet many still see predictive analytics as a separate activity that is the responsibility of a small team of expert analysts. Register Now>> 3D scanner merges with tablet for portable object capture 3D scanner merges with tablet for portable object capture The DPI-7 handheld scanner from Dot Product has a depth sensing camera similar to a Microsoft Kinect Sensor attached to an Android tablet running the company's software. Follow reporter Nick... From: Network World Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 01:39 More in Science & Technology Read More iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Aug. 15 The iOSphere is more and more certain it knows the details of the Apple iPhone 6, even though there is less and less to go on.Some were reassured that “next generation” iPhone models have been approved for sale in, of all places, Thailand. Others think, or hope, that the long-rumored wearable wrist thing, sometimes called iWatch, will be announced at the same September 9 event as the iPhone 6. Still others entertained the idea of a Lightning connector cable with a reversible USB connector…or something. And sapphire remains the crown jewel of rumors: gleaming, elusive, and, for many, deeply confusing.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Skyhigh Networks Checklist for Selecting Enterprise-Ready Cloud Applications To minimize risk, organizations must employ a methodology to identify and select enterprise-ready cloud services. This 21 step checklist includes the five categories of attribute to evaluate and an audit framework from the Cloud Security Alliance View Now>> Tablets with voice calling functions take off in Asia These low-cost tablets appeal to people who can't afford to buy a separate phone Read More Samsung builds custom Galaxy Tab 4 Nook tablet with Barnes & Noble Samsung is moving deeper into ebook and multimedia sales with Barnes & Noble, with which it jointly built a custom Nook tablet that’s available now for US$179.The Galaxy Tab 4 Nook tablet has a 7-inch screen and is bundled with B&Ns Nook software to read ebooks and watch movies. The tablet is the first product from the alliance the companies announced in June.E-book reading is growing and remains an important part of tablets, said Mike Huseby, CEO of B&N, at an event Wednesday in New York to announce the product.Nook software will allow users to download text-only and multimedia books and get recommendations, Huseby said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More What Verizon exclusive? HTC's Windows Phone-powered One M8 is coming to AT&T, too On the surface, the announcement of a Windows Phone-powered version of HTC's drool-worthy One M8 smartphone was nothing but a good thing. One of the most appealing smartphones in the land embraced Microsoft's mobile operating system! But the news was tainted by a foul note. No, haters, not the inclusion of Windows Phone itself (though it could certainly use some help these days). I'm talking about the phone’s reported Verizon exclusivity. Nobody—nobody—ever changes carriers to simply snag a particular phone, so limiting the Windows Phone One M8 to Verizon reeked of giving the phone the kiss of death before it even hit the streets.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More 12 oddball odes to open-source Hey, I just met you / and this is crazy / but here's my pub key / so msg me maybe Read More
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