iPad Air 2 review: A great tablet gets better

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	iPad Air 2 review: A great tablet gets better If you liked last year's iPad Air, you'll almost certainly like this year's version, unveiled early last month (along with the 5K Retina iMac) by Apple CEO Tim Cook. The iPad Air 2 features Touch ID, a (much) faster system architecture and an aluminum enclosure that is both thinner and lighter than the first-generation iPad Air it replaces.As with previous lines, the iPad Air 2 comes as both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi/cellular models. The Wi-Fi-only devices cost $499 for 16GB of storage, $599 for 64GB and $699 for 128GB. The cellular/GPS iPads cost $130 more at the same storage tiers. Supported carriers include Sprint, AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile in the U.S.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise University Surpasses Students' Digital Expectations The explosion of mobile device use is testing the limits of legacy networks everywhere. In this webcast you will learn how Abilene Christian University meets the mobile access demands of 4500 University students, and 250,000 connections per day. Learn More In this Issue HTC beats Black Friday rush, slashes Nexus 9 tablet price in half The must-have iPad office apps, round 9.5 You'll pay a premium for the new Samsung Galaxy Note Edge Black Friday sales promise iPhone 6 deals INSIDER 12 tips to tune your Wi-Fi network A CIO fights to keep his tech options open Here's where to get LinkedIn with Network World Intel CEO sees wearables going mainstream Sprint trims subscriber losses in Q3, hangs on as third-largest U.S. carrier RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AirWatch by VMware Unified Endpoint Management from AirWatch by VMware AirWatch® provides a single pane of glass to consistently manage all device types and operating systems from a central console. This gives users anytime anywhere access to enterprise resources regardless of their endpoint. Start managing your organization's smart phones, tablets, and laptops in a single console with AirWatch. HTC beats Black Friday rush, slashes Nexus 9 tablet price in half HTC had the Android faithful in a frenzy at noon EST on Tuesday after it put the new Nexus 9 tablet on sale for half price just a day after making the latest iPad killer available.Alas, the limited time offer for an unspecified number of the tablets is over after the inventory sold out. HTC was selling the 16GB edition, which has a list price of $399 and boasts Android 5.0 "Lollipop" software, for $199. (If you want to look inside the Nexus 9, check out iFixit's latest teardown.)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More The must-have iPad office apps, round 9.5 Google's newly completed Apps suite can't beat Apple's improved iWork or Microsoft Office Read More You'll pay a premium for the new Samsung Galaxy Note Edge Samsung's Galaxy Note Edge arrives soon in the U.S. with its innovative curved edge display, and a steep price Read More : Brother International Corp. Virtual Training Programs for Remote Sales Agents Vehicle Protection Plus can train their sales agents, and get them productive, regardless of location using OmniJoin web conferencing. Find out how. Learn More>> Black Friday sales promise iPhone 6 deals If you're hankering for an Apple iPhone 6 or 6 Plus smartphone and have held off this long, you might want to give it another couple of weeks and see what sorts of deals emerge for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Read More INSIDER 12 tips to tune your Wi-Fi network More and more people are looking for Wi-Fi connectivity, especially at public venues -- on their laptops, smartphones and tablets -- to help conserve cellular data usage. Read More A CIO fights to keep his tech options open In today's IT market, vendors tell users that engineered, converged and highly integrated systems deliver the greatest efficiency. But some users believe a heterogeneous environment is the best path to savings.Michael Spears is one of those users.Spears is the CIO of the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI), which gathers and analyzes data about the workers' compensation insurance market and offers products and services to help more than 900 insurance companies and nearly 40 state governments better understand risks, costs and industry trends. The Boca Raton, Fla.-based not-for-profit brings in about $160 million in revenue; the IT department accounts for about a third of the organization's expenses.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM IBM Value-based Archiving Solutions This solution brief highlights IBM Value-based Archiving Solutions, which help enable organizations to apply specific archiving logic—including content-based analytics and classification, records declarations, and metadata processing—to address the requirements of archiving projects. View Now>> Here's where to get LinkedIn with Network World Please follow Network World on LinkedIn for the latest news and discussion on all things enterprise networking Read More Intel CEO sees wearables going mainstream Intel threw an event in San Francisco to recognize the winners of its first-ever wearables competition. We spoke with Intel CEO Brian Krzanich and asked him about the company's wearables strategy. Read More Sprint trims subscriber losses in Q3, hangs on as third-largest U.S. carrier Sprint had 55 million wireless "connections" at the end of the third quarter, allowing it to remain as the third largest U.S. carrier, just ahead of T-Mobile.Some analysts had predicted Sprint would fall to fourth place behind T-Mobile, which has 53 million wireless customers, due to Sprint's losses of postpaid phone subscribers. Those customers pay monthly bills after using a wireless service, as opposed to paying in advance. Be sure not to miss: 12 most powerful Internet of Things companies In the company's earnings call late Monday, Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure announced a loss of 500,000 postpaid phone connections during the quarter that ended Sept. 30. That's down from a loss of 620,000 in the second quarter and 693,000 in the first quarter. For the first nine months of the year, Sprint has lost about 1.8 million postpaid customers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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