Network World Daily News PM | | The Madness will finally end tomorrow, but in the meantime there's still plenty of it in the iOSphere.This week there are new and, incredibly, credible reports that Apple will launch a mobile payments system with iPhone 6. Most of the details are about the backroom deals with big financial institutions, but they also include use of an NFC chip.Speaking of NFC chips, one writer offers thoughts on All the Wonderful Things you can do with NFC apart from buying stuff. Also this week: bad news on sapphire screens (they won't be appearing) but good news on storage (more!).You read it here second.iPhone 6 will introduce mobile payments As part of its long-rumored move into mobile buying, Apple has convinced five of the country's biggest financial institutions to cut transaction fees for purchases made with the upcoming iPhone 6.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here | | Issue highlights 1. 5 business uses for wearable technology 2. New products of the week 09.08.14 3. Alleged iWatch schematics show round watchface, 4 colors and 2 sizes 4. How the Terminal makes Ubuntu Touch worth using 5. The newest Windows Phone licensee is…Polaroid 6. Report: CenturyLink interested in buying Rackspace 7. ESPN's Fantasy Football Fumble 8. Microsoft rolls out Delve information and people discovery tool for Office 365 9. Mayo Clinic Turns to IBM's Watson to Fill Clinical Trials 10. Hackers launch Apple ID phishing campaign playing on iCloud security worries 11. Twitter testing a 'buy button' 12. Remembering tech journalist Eric Lundquist 13. Rotten Apple: Apple's 11 biggest failures | WHITE PAPER: OPSWAT Inc. Securing critical infrastructure is crucial to ensuring that our current way of life is sustained. Our whitepaper provides insight into the development of strong security policies around the use of portable media, and how to effectively mitigate the threat from external sources. Learn more | As we wait for Apple's rumored iWatch, now is a good time to think about how wearable computing might find a home in the business world. READ MORE | Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Alert Logic and WTI READ MORE | Earlier today, a Reddit user uploaded photos purporting to show design schematics of Apple's long rumored iWatch. READ MORE | One YouTube video showing the Ubuntu Touch Terminal app in action changed my mind about the mobile OS. READ MORE | WHITE PAPER: Citrix Desktop virtualization is attractive to organizations of all types and sizes because of its many compelling benefits, such as significantly reducing operating costs while strengthening data security and enhancing IT responsiveness to rapidly changing business conditions. However, there is a gap in coverage that exists for mobile laptop users. Learn More | The maker of the instant camera is now lining up behind Microsoft in the smartphone wars. READ MORE | Rackspace is rumored to be available for purchase READ MORE | Football season is here, which means fantasy football season is here too. But if fantasy players attempted to log on to ESPN to check their teams after most of the NFL Week 1 games had ended on Sunday, they may have been out of luck.ESPN acknowledged via Twitter that it experienced an outage to its popular fantasy football service Sunday evening, causing potentially millions of frustrated football fans to be unable to check their fantasy teams. At 7:08 PM PT ESPN said it was aware of the issue and was working to resolve it. Less than an hour later, the @ESPNFantasy account tweeted "We're back. Thanks for your patience" at 7:59 PM PT.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | Microsoft has begun a months-long rollout of Delve, the first Office 365 application that taps into the suite's Office Graph machine learning capabilities and maps connections between co-workers, documents and information.Delve, announced in March with the code-name Oslo, is designed to automatically surface colleagues, files and data that are more relevant and important to users' work.Delve renders these connections via a very visual card-based interface, and bases its output on an analysis of a number of signals and elements from each individual user, such as Exchange Online email message exchanges, OneDrive for Business stored content, SharePoint Online collaboration activity and Yammer enterprise social networking interactions.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | WHITE PAPER: Fortinet Next-generation firewall technology (NGFW) addresses the most prevalent security issues. Fortinet's FortiGate NGFW integrates five crucial security protections, including strong authentication, antimalware and APT detection. View Now>> | IBM's Watson cognitive computer will soon be helping Mayo Clinic enroll patients in clinical trials in an effort to increase the speed of new discoveries while offering patients more and better treatment possibilities. The collaboration will begin with research studies in cancer.Mike Rhodin, senior vice president of the IBM Waston Group, announced the plans for the collaboration today at Mayo Clinic's Transform 2014 Symposium in Rochester, Minn.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | Phishing emails masquerade as security alerts from Apple about rogue iTunes purchases, researchers from Symantec said READ MORE | The social media company wants to make mobile shopping easy and fun READ MORE | Sad news broke over the weekend that Eric Lundquist, a longtime technology journalist, had died suddenly at the age of 64. READ MORE | Rotten Apple: Apple's 11 biggest failures "Image by Apple logo: GDS-Productions via FlickrTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | WHITE PAPER: IBM Forrester has released its 2014 Dynamic Case Management Wave, and for the second consecutive time, IBM is a leader. View Now>> | | | | | | | |
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