Workday ships first app for higher education in strike against Oracle

DHL will use 'parcelcopter' drone to deliver medicines to European island Networking pioneer Bob Metcalfe hails Ethernet-as-a-Service effort IT News Daily September 25, 2014 Workday ships first app for higher education in strike against Oracle Workday has made good on a promise it issued a year ago with the release Thursday of Workday Student Recruiting, the first in a series of apps it's developing for higher education institutions. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. DHL will use 'parcelcopter' drone to deliver medicines to European island 2. Networking pioneer Bob Metcalfe hails Ethernet-as-a-Service effort 3. Apple yanks iOS 8 update after crippling iPhone 6 and 6 Plus 4. Microsoft, frustrated as ever with H-1B policy, considers options 5. South Korea's gigabit broadband woes should serve as object lesson for FCC regulators 6. New iOS 8 APIs trigger higher app crash rate DHL will use 'parcelcopter' drone to deliver medicines to European island Deutsche Post DHL will launch soon regular drone flights to deliver emergency medicines and other goods to the North Sea island of Juist. READ MORE Networking pioneer Bob Metcalfe hails Ethernet-as-a-Service effort The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) this week announced intentions to define parameters for Ethernet network-as-a-service (NaaS), an effort Ethernet inventor Robert Metcalfe hailed as "a new network paradigm." READ MORE WEBCAST: Peer 1 Hosting Peer 1's Mission Critical Cloud: Your Cloud, Your Way With the increased agility, unlimited scale and lower costs of IAAS, plus the autoscaling, instant availability and headache-free operation of PAAS, Peer 1 Hosting's Mission Critical Cloud offers the ultimate in flexible customization of infrastructure, resources and support. Learn More Apple yanks iOS 8 update after crippling iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Apple today released, then quickly pulled, its first update for iOS 8 after customers flooded its support forum with reports that their iPhone 6 and 6 Plus smartphones could no longer connect to a cellular network. READ MORE Microsoft, frustrated as ever with H-1B policy, considers options A two-day conference on high-skilled immigration policy, which attracted researchers from the U.S. and Europe, offered Microsoft an opportunity to voice frustration over U.S. immigration policy. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Global Knowledge Subnetting an IP Address The process of subnetting is both a mathematical process and a network design process. Mathematics drives how subnets are calculated, identified, and assigned. The network design and requirements of the organization drive how many subnets are needed and how many hosts an individual subnet needs to support. Learn More>> South Korea's gigabit broadband woes should serve as object lesson for FCC regulators The FCC now has collected more than 3 million comments in a major proceeding that may reclassify broadband Internet service to fit within the largely- inflexible common carrier model in Title II of the Communications Act of 1934. READ MORE New iOS 8 APIs trigger higher app crash rate In its first days of availability, iOS 8, Apple's newest mobile operating system, has exhibited an app crash rate significantly higher than iOS 7 did a year ago, an app performance management developer said yesterday. READ MORE Follow IT News You are currently subscribed to itnews_daily as garn14.tech@blogger.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: sean_weglage@itworld.com To contact IT News, please send an e-mail to online@itworld.com Copyright (C) 2014 IT News, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@itworld.com. **