With just about two months to go before Apple introduces the iPhone 7 to the world, recent product leaks have given us a pretty good idea of what to expect from Apple's next-gen smartphone—at least from a design point of view.Over the past few weeks, we've certainly seen no shortage of spy shots and blurry shots of iPhone casings. But a recent leak courtesy of Nowhereelse.fr has given us our clearest look yet at we can expect from the iPhone 7's design.As evidenced via the photo below, the antenna lines that we had to withstand on the iPhone 6 and 6s have thankfully been relegated to the sides of the device. In other words, the back of the iPhone 7 is incredibly smooth and sleek.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Pluribus this week added a key piece to its virtual network management portfolio – a central management console and framework for helping customers better see and control their virtual network environment.The company announced VCFcenter, which it describes as a single pane of glass that will let customers comprehend business service flows and packets across their networks. VCFcenter is key because the company’s primary analytics application -- VCF-IA – will plug into the system as well as new reporting and deep packet analysis applications that combined offer a powerful management system for virtual environments the company says.+More on Network World: Cisco platform lets IT rein-in disruptive data center operations, security, applications+To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
India’s large number of software developers has top smartphone companies like Google and Apple trying to coax them to work on their operating systems.Google on Monday said it will be training, over the next three years, some 2 million developers in the country on its Android operating system.In a similar move, Apple announced in May it will set up a facility in Bangalore by early next year to help developers on best practices and to improve the design, quality, and performance of their apps on the iOS platform. That announcement came during CEO Tim Cook's first visit to India.India will have an estimated 4 million software developers by 2018, by then the largest population of developers in the world. Currently, less than 25 percent of these developers are trained to develop and build for the mobile platform.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Not long ago, I wrote a post about net neutrality, agreeing with the U.S. appeals court ruling that broadband internet access was no mere luxury, but a crucial utility—like running water or electricity—and needed to be regulated as such.
It seems now that I didn’t go nearly far enough. The United Nations Human Rights Council recently passed a resolution calling unfettered internet access a basic human right.
+ Also on Network World: Why internet access is a modern necessity, not a luxury+To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
As Intel drifts away from smartphones and tablets, users with Android devices are starting to feel the pinch.The hot Pokemon Go app won't work on Android devices with Intel Atom processors, and that's an issue for some users.A petition to make the popular augmented reality game compatible with Atom chips attracted close to 22,000 signers by Monday. The app isn't working on devices like Asus' Zenfone 2, which runs on an Atom CPU. Pokemon Go maker Niantic Labs didn't respond to questions about whether they would release an Atom-compatible version of the game.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Microsoft made the biggest pitch to date for HoloLens as a business computing device on Monday during its Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, Canada.When Arantxa Lasa Cid, a program director at the company, took the stage for a HoloLens demo, she pulled up a workspace that looked a lot like a massive, multimonitor desktop setup, complete with virtual monitors showing an Outlook calendar, email and two web browsers. It looked a lot like a traditional desktop setup, with one catch: Cid was standing in front of an empty table, wearing one of Microsoft's augmented reality headsets. And then, with the tap of her finger, she pulled up a model of a jet engine. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Soon it will be time to say “goodbye” to my family’s VueZone video cameras. Over the past three years, we have made quite an investment in NetGear’s VueZone technology: two hubs, eight regular and night-vision cameras, and even weatherproof outdoor housings. Soon: Poof. Toodles. It was fun, now it’s done.We initially purchased one NetGear VueZone Home Video Monitoring System in August 2013 for $218.48 (including tax), plus additional cameras and housings along the way. A few months later, we bought a second system for another piece of property. In addition, we paid NetGear an annual fee for motion detection and to store video clips in the cloud whenever activity was detected.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Samsung today announced what it claims is the highest capacity consumer solid state drive, a 4TB member of its 850 EVO line, which will retail for $1,499 or about 36 cents per gigabyte of capacity.The new 850 EVO SSD uses Samsung's 48-layer high V-NAND technology, which stacks flash memory cells one atop another like microscopic skyscrapers and stores three bits per cell.Samsung then crammed the 4TB of capacity into a 2.5-in. SSD form factor only 7mm thick, which is small enough to fit into ultra-slim notebooks. Previously, Samsung's 2TB EVO SSD was its highest capacity flash drive. Samsung
Samsung's new 850 EVO SSD boxed.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Polycom has dramatically pulled the plug on Mitel’s proposed $US1.9 billion acquisition of the company, scrapping the deal to go private instead.Following a dramatic day of deliberating at the video conferencing vendor, over a years' worth of negotiating is now off the table after the company accepted a rival $US2 billion bid from Siris Capital Group LLC, a private equity firm based in New York.According to Polycom, its board of directors took less than 24 hours to decide on the move.In a move which has left the channel stunned, Polycom has officially ended the merger agreement, paying Mitel the $60 million termination fee after the vendor refused to raise its offer.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
The World Food Program warns that droughts, fires and storms could endanger food security for billions of people. To adapt, farmers need current, local and reliable information to help them choose the seeds and planting schedules best suited to local weather conditions.Traditional weather sensors, however, are often too expensive and difficult to operate in large parts of the developing world. This results in scarce farming and weather data for much of the globe.Farmers need hyperlocal information—both timely and local. With IoT and new connectivity options, affordable sensors that are easy to operate can collect the vital information farmers require.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
With the launch of Pokemon Go last week, it's not just players but police that "gotta catch 'em all."Police in O'Fallon, Missouri, believe muggers may have tracked or lured victims through the Pokemon Go mobile game, in which players follow their phones' directions to real-world places to "catch" Pokemon characters."The way we believe it was used is you can add a beacon to a Pokestop to lure more players. Apparently they were using the app to locate people standing around in the middle of a parking lot or whatever other location they were in," O'Fallon Police Department explained on its official Facebook page.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Live streaming, a technology that has been around for years, became white hot this week after it was used to capture the aftermath of the fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer in Minnesota.Diamond Reynolds opened her Facebook Live app and live-streamed what happened after the shooting that left her boyfriend Philando Castile dead and a country in turmoil."Live streaming is quite different ... than what we've seen before," said Dan Olds, an analyst at Gabriel Consulting Group. "Skype and Facetime are most often used as one-to-one communication vehicles. But live-casting is different in that it gives users a one-to-many live broadcasting capability -- something that had only been available to broadcasting companies up until now."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Most of the work for setting up Office 365 collaboration happens on the back end, where you define and manage Active Directory users and associated policies and set up SharePoint and OneDrive access, if applicable.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
The easiest way to share Office documents is from Office 2016 itself. All the apps allow you to share the currently open document, and apps on some platforms also let you share files from the file list, even if they are not currently open.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
Until recently, a functional version of the OneDrive app wasn't available for Windows or MacOS, so many people learned to use OneDrive as part of Office 2016 apps, as descried in Part 2 of InfoWorld's Office 365 document-sharing how-to series.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
A mobile chip faster than the one in flagship smartphones like Samsung's Galaxy S7 and LG's G5 will start appearing in handsets this quarter.The Snapdragon 821, announced by Qualcomm on Monday, is an incremental upgrade to the Snapdragon 820. In addition to mobile phones, it's also aimed at tablets, drones, robots and virtual reality headsets.The Snapdragon 821 is about 10 percent faster than its predecessor. It is also more power-efficient, meaning batteries in smartphones and phablets will last longer.Smartphone buyers can look at smartphone specifications to see if a device has a Snapdragon 821 or 820.Qualcomm is now the top dog of mobile chip companies, with Intel exiting the race. The company routinely releases incremental upgrades to its top-line chips. It released the Snapdragon 801 chip in 2014, with performance and graphics improvements, as an upgrade to the Snapdragon 800.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Now that you have OneDrive installed on your computers and mobile devices, all the files stored in OneDrive from those devices can be shared with others -- not only Office files.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
Microsoft has jumped into the free, self-service data analysis space with Power BI.
Power BI offers basic data wrangling capabilities similar to Excel's Power Query. It also lets you create interactive visualizations, reports and dashboards with a few clicks or drag-and-drops; type natural-language questions about your data on a dashboard; and handle files that are too large for Excel.
It can work with dozens of data types -- not only Excel, Access and CSV files, but also Salesforce, Google Analytics, MailChimp, GitHub, QuickBooks Online and dozens of others. And, it will run R scripts -- meaning that any data you can pull in and massage via R you can import into Power BI.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
If you'd like to follow along with our hands-on Power BI tutorial, you can download the data files below.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
Technology professionals and managers are used to being in high demand, but no sector is immune to layoffs and economic disruption.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)