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	Microsoft's Surface turns first profit in 2 years After two years and nearly $2 billion in losses, Microsoft's Surface turned a profit in the September quarter. Read More WHITE PAPER: SevenTablets Mitigating Your Biggest Mobile Strategy Risk: User Rejection Did you know eight out of ten apps are downloaded, used once, and deleted? User rejection is the greatest risk to your mobile strategy. This white paper outlines how to mitigate this risk by planning a user-friendly experience that balances responsiveness, intuitiveness, and functionality. Learn More In this Issue Toshiba Chromebook 2: Is this the Chromebook you've been waiting for? Wi-Fi Passpoint standard now knits together SF, San Jose, London Are higher frequencies mobile's next frontier? The FCC wants to know Samsung Knox devices approved for government use by NSA Workers use their own devices at work, without boss's knowledge Apple's mobile enterprise strategy Got 5 minutes? Take ITworld's audience survey and you could win $500 Apple Pay's next move: Phone-to-phone payments At Austin airport, Wi-Fi predicts how long the security line will be First products from Apple-IBM deal to come next month WHITE PAPER: VeriSign Turn to the Cloud for Website Availability & Protection Domain name system (DNS) protection is a key component to a comprehensive security plan. One of the most efficient ways to bolster DNS security is to deploy a cloud-based DNS infrastructure. This DNS Security eGuide, will review top cyber threats to DNS and identify five top reasons, along with guidance, on selecting a managed DNS service provider. Learn More>> Toshiba Chromebook 2: Is this the Chromebook you've been waiting for? The Toshiba Chromebook 2 has been getting rave reviews. But is it really as good as it seems? I've got specs, details, and advice. Read More Wi-Fi Passpoint standard now knits together SF, San Jose, London The specification helps users join secure networks automatically. Read More Are higher frequencies mobile's next frontier? The FCC wants to know Some mobile researchers think future networks will reach into higher frequencies to keep up with traffic, and the FCC now wants to know how it might help to make that possible. Most of the world's cellular networks send calls and data traffic over frequencies below 6GHz. Growing demand is expected to put the squeeze on those spectrum bands in a few years, and one way out may be to start using largely untapped frequencies in so-called millimeter-wave bands. Though experts say most of those bands are still lightly used, unleashing smartphones and other mobile devices on them would require some regulatory changes. To get ahead of that game, on Oct. 17 the U.S. Federal Communications Commission announced a Notice of Inquiry to ask what new high-frequency mobile technology might achieve and which bands might be best to use. New advances could make millimeter-wave radios part of 5G, the next generation of mobile communications, the FCC said in a news release. That generation is expected to reach the real world around 2020.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Samsung Knox devices approved for government use by NSA The certification may help Samsung establish itself as a serious player in secured devices. Read More Workers use their own devices at work, without boss's knowledge Many workers use their personally owned smartphones and other computers for job tasks, but a new survey shows a big percentage are doing so without their employer's knowledge. Market research firm Gartner surveyed 4,300 U.S. consumers in June who work at large companies (with more than 1,000 employees) and found 40% used personally owned smartphones, tablets, laptops or desktops as a primary or supplemental business device. That 40% might not be unusual, but more surprisingly, Gartner found that 45% of workers not required to use a personal device for work were doing so without their employer's knowledge. "Almost half [are using their device] without their employer's awareness," said Gartner analyst Amanda Sabia in an interview.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Flexera Software Achieving Application Readiness Maturity Is your Application Readiness Process Ready for Change? Learn how to identify where you can make improvements, analyze the steps needed to move up in maturity, and prioritize which steps are most critical, resulting in faster and more reliable application delivery, lower costs and decreased risk. Learn More Apple's mobile enterprise strategy How Apple could boost its sales in the enterprise. Read More Got 5 minutes? Take ITworld's audience survey and you could win $500 This brief, 10-question survey will help us learn more about you, our readers. The survey should take no more than 5 minutes of your time, and at the end of the survey you will be given the opportunity to enter a drawing to win a $500 cash prize. Go on, what have you got to lose? Read More Apple Pay's next move: Phone-to-phone payments The NFC standard supports it, but payment software hasn't enabled it yet. Read More At Austin airport, Wi-Fi predicts how long the security line will be The Internet can ease travel concerns in many ways, including flight-delay information, maps of road congestion, and ride-sharing apps. But a Wi-Fi network at the Austin, Texas, airport can now answer one of the great unknowns: How long will I have to wait in line at security? That information is available thanks to fairly simple technology implemented on a Cisco Systems network run by global Wi-Fi provider Boingo Wireless. It's an early example of how the so-called Internet of Things can make some parts of life easier. Austin-Bergstrom International Airport got the nation's first airport Wi-Fi network in 2000, according to Boingo, which has run the airport's Wi-Fi since 2008. Now it's become one of the first airports to implement Passpoint, the standard that lets users of some devices get on networks and roam between them without entering a username and password. The Cisco network that supports Passpoint can also use location technologies for additional services.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More First products from Apple-IBM deal to come next month The first products from Apple's mobile enterprise partnership with IBM will roll out next month, according to Apple CEO Tim Cook, who said the partnership "could change the way people work." In July, Apple announced an "exclusive" deal with IBM in which iPhones and iPads would be sold to enterprises backed by IBM's cloud and analytics services. The first products will be for the banking, government, insurance, retail, telecommunications and travel and transport sectors, Cook said on a Monday earnings call.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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