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	With chip fabs gone, IBM's hardware future will be in high-end design | IBM's Rometty defends bumpy financial ride as company shifts strategy
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	15 Must-Have Android, iOS apps for business travelers Apps for Business TravelersImage by ThinkstockBusiness travel is back, according to a new Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) report that says U.S. business travelers spent $72.8 billion in the second quarter of 2014, up 7.1 percent over the same period last year.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WHITE PAPER: Riverbed | Orange Application Performance Management for Dummies Application performance management helps deliver the application performance users and the business demand. Effectively monitoring and troubleshooting application performance issues requires a comprehensive solution. View now>> In this Issue With chip fabs gone, IBM's hardware future will be in high-end design IBM's Rometty defends bumpy financial ride as company shifts strategy Researcher creates proof-of-concept worm for network-attached storage devices Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst on the impact of cloud and mobile FBI again claims it's Going Dark thanks to privacy solutions like encryption 3D-printed gun maker draws jail term in Japan Apple Pay won't replace your wallet any time soon Last 'celebrity' joins Twitter: Monica Lewinsky Building the next generation of female IT professionals New products of the week 10.20.2014 Windows 10: A guided tour : Verizon Mobile Device Management In this eGuide, InfoWorld and sister publications IDG News Service, Network World, Computerworld, and CSO look at many of today's issues surrounding mobile security and MDM. Read on to learn how MDM can help your enterprise enable mobile security without hampering employee productivity. Learn More With chip fabs gone, IBM's hardware future will be in high-end design IBM may have sold off its chip manufacturing business, but don't count it out as a hardware force to be reckoned with. It still plans to fight on, developing faster computers and cognitive computing systems like Watson.IBM will pay US$1.5 billion to GlobalFoundries to take over its chip-making factories, but will continue to design high-end chips and sell servers and supercomputers. Its hardware future now rests on the Power processor architecture, which over the years has been used by Apple in some Macs, Sony's PlayStation 3 and IBM mainframes. The Power processor will continue to appear in supercomputers, though GlobalFoundries will make the actual chips.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   IBM's Rometty defends bumpy financial ride as company shifts strategy In a call with investors, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty vigorously defended IBM's pursuit of emerging high-growth markets Read More   Researcher creates proof-of-concept worm for network-attached storage devices Network-attached storage (NAS) devices are riddled with vulnerabilities that can put the security of sensitive data and networks at risk, a researcher has found. To prove his point, he has created a proof-of-concept worm that can infect devices from three different manufacturers.Earlier this year, Jacob Holcomb, a security analyst at Baltimore-based firm Independent Security Evaluators, started researching the security of NAS devices. He selected popular devices from 10 manufacturers and found that they were all were susceptible to root compromise. In addition, he found that exploiting half of them did not require authentication.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst on the impact of cloud and mobile Where the cloud is winning, and where it isn't. Plus, how mobile drives infrastructure demand. Read More   FBI again claims it's Going Dark thanks to privacy solutions like encryption Unless we find the right "balance" of security and liberty (privacy), and stop being so "mistrustful of the government and law enforcement," then FBI Director James Comey said widespread adoption of encryption will mean the U.S. is no longer "a country governed by the rule of law." Read More   3D-printed gun maker draws jail term in Japan   A Japanese court on Monday sentenced a man to two years in prison for making firearms with a 3D printer. Read More   Apple Pay won't replace your wallet any time soon The ability to make purchases with Apple Pay in the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus might be useful, but it's not likely to make the wallet obsolete. Read More   Last 'celebrity' joins Twitter: Monica Lewinsky Self-described as a "social activist, public speaker, contributor to Vanity Fair (and) knitter of things without sleeves," she is in fact best known as the last of the world's pseudo-celebrities to get around to opening an account on Twitter.Monica Lewinsky did so a few hours ago and, as of just past lunchtime, had attracted almost 20,000 followers, none of whom appeared to be a former president of the United States or first lady/secretary of state. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Building the next generation of female IT professionals Like most technology executives, Jon Bischke worries about attracting and retaining top talent and the ever-widening skills gap that's plagued the IT industry for years. But Bischke, CEO of Entelo, a talent search, recruitment, hiring and staffing solution, is also troubled by the lack of women in the industry, and the ever-widening skills gap as women and minorities increasingly choose other professions.ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: How to lure tech talent with employee benefits, perks "What's concerning to us is the dire need for diversity in the IT industry, and we see this huge gap in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills and training, especially with women and minorities," Bischke says. "While we have tools within our Entelo solution that allows recruiters and hiring managers to specifically focus on hiring from these underrepresented groups, we wanted to do more to encourage women's interest in STEM starting very early," he says.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   New products of the week 10.20.2014 Products of the weekOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow.Docker 1.3Key features: Docker 1.3 delivers digital signature verification for Docker official content repos, the ability to inject new "helper" processes into a containerized applications and an ability to tune container lifecycles. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Windows 10: A guided tour A guided tourMicrosoft released a technical preview of the next version of Windows for the public to download and try for free. Although a final release with additional features isn't expected until the middle of 2015, there are already a number of changes compared to Windows 8.1. Here are some of the most prominent.Return of the Start MenuClicking the Windows logo Start button, or pressing the Windows logo key on the keyboard, summons the Start Menu, which was last seen in Windows 7, but absent from Windows 8 and 8.1. The left half of this Start Menu lists pinned applications, apps and folders, and recently opened programs and other items. The right half displays the tiles of Windows Apps -- it's like a mini version of the Start Screen from Windows 8/8.1 attached to the Start Menu. Just as on the Start Screen, you can rearrange the placement of these tiles by clicking-holding-and-dragging on each one.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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