Why do cell phones still suck for calling?

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	Why do cell phones still suck for calling? Calling is probably only a small percentage of what the average smartphone is used for today, but you would think that with all the advances in mobile tech, this still critical function would have gotten better too.Ha!Connections are still spotty, voice quality often stinks, and you don't have to think back too far to remember the last time you had a call drop.The IEEE's Spectrum magazine just published a good article on the subject, "All smart, no phone: Cellular carriers are dragging their heels over technology to improve voice quality," that identifies the core problems and the technology fixes that can help.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Tintri Inc. Scaling Virtual Environments with Tintri Smart Storage Tintri VMstore and Tintri Global Center offer IT organizations the best choice for building and scaling virtualized environments. VMstore is the industry's leading storage solution designed for virtualized environments, and Tintri Global Center adds the visibility and control to enable all VMstore systems to function as one. Read now! In this Issue Twitter's timestamp bug, Alec Baldwin and me New Windows 10 TP build adds Windows Phone Action Center Software developer shortage transcends international boundaries US Justice Dept. focuses new squad on cybercrime combat The connected car: Tech's next gold rush INSIDER IT Resumes: Lies, Half-truths and Embellishments 5 non-traditional hiring tips for InfoSec Microsoft partners with Docker to bring containers to Windows Server NFC chip implants: First Apple, now this guy WHITE PAPER: Alert Logic State of Cloud Security Report In a relatively short time, cloud computing, specifically Infrastructure-as a-Service, has shifted from a new but unproven approach to an accepted, even inevitable, model. Driven by flexibility and efficiency, the question facing most organizations is which applications and workloads to move to the cloud and when. Learn More Twitter's timestamp bug, Alec Baldwin and me This morning I had my own encounter with a supposedly eradicated Twitter timestamp bug that once was responsible for sending the notoriously boorish actor Alec Baldwin into a homophobic rant over a newspaper allegation, later proven untrue, that his wife Hilaria had tweeted idle pleasantries while attending the funeral of Sopranos star James Gandolfini.Nothing the least bit dramatic occurred as a result of my run-in with the bug – unless head-scratching counts -- but the bug has not been eradicated, despite Twitter claims to the contrary, and how could I resist writing this post after a Google search on "Twitter timestamp wrong" turned up such a star-studded result. (Heck, they'd drum me out of the bloggers' union if there was a bloggers' union.)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More New Windows 10 TP build adds Windows Phone Action Center Windows 10 Technical Preview testers are getting a new build of the OS with almost 7,000 changes, including the addition of the Action Center console already available in Windows Phone.For people using two monitors, the new build, number 9860, also brings a keyboard shortcut to move active apps from one display to the other. Microsoft has also incorporated an animation to indicate to users when they are successfully switching desktop interfaces.This is the first update for Windows 10 Technical Preview, which was released about three weeks ago as build 9841. Most of the changes in this new build will be invisible to testers, because they are improvements and bug fixes.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Software developer shortage transcends international boundaries The dearth of software development talent isn't an issue restricted to U.S. businesses. Finding programmers, especially to fill positions in the growing field of health IT, is a global challenge, said speakers Tuesday during a panel discussion on developing a health IT workforce."The lack of software developers is not just in health IT. It hurts the global economy," said Mary Cleary, deputy CEO of the Irish Computer Society, at the EU-U.S. ehealth Marketplace and Conference in Boston.Technology can help health care, but there's a worldwide shortage of developers who can create the necessary applications, said Colin Reid, CEO of TotalMobile, a Belfast company that develops mobile software. The U.K. National Health Service uses TotalMobile's software and the company counts health care as one its largest markets.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More US Justice Dept. focuses new squad on cybercrime combat The threat and consequences of cybersecurity attacks today lead the US Department of Justice to reorganize in an effort to better battle the scourge.The changes announced by John Carlin, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security included the appointment of a new Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and a new Chief of Staff and Counselor, as well as the creation of a new Deputy Assistant Attorney General position to oversee DOJ's National Security Division's efforts to protect national assets, including its efforts to combat economic espionage, proliferation, and cyber-based national security threats.  This position will oversee the work of the National Security Cyber Specialists (NSCS) Network, consisting of prosecutors in each of the U.S. Attorney's Offices who focus on cyber threats to the national security. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More The connected car: Tech's next gold rush Although it seems like an innovation that should have occurred years ago, the stage appears to be setting for the connected car to come to fruition, opening up a market that could surpass $131 billion in the next six years, according to a new report from Transparency Market Research.The signs of this growth, which TMR forecasts at a 34.7% compound annual growth rate from 2013 to 2019, have materialized in the market slowly in the past year or so, with Chevy boasting in-car 4G LTE in TV commercials this summer. General Motors was hardly the first car maker to offer in-car LTE or Wi-Fi, joining the likes of Ford, Chrysler, and Audi in the race to meet a suddenly burgeoning demand. A J.D. Power and Associates survey from earlier this year found that 38% of respondents in the market for U.S.-built cars identified "the latest technology features" as a key selling point.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More INSIDER IT Resumes: Lies, Half-truths and Embellishments As the old saying goes, a lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. Nowhere is this truer than when conducting a job search. In a hyper-competitive talent market, it can be tempting to embellish your work history, exaggerate your IT skills or even claim to hold advanced degrees if it'll give you an edge over other job seekers. Unfortunately however, even if these lies manage to go unnoticed at first, they'll many times catch up with; potentially landing you back among the ranks of the unemployed with a bad reputation according to Tracy Cashman, senior vice president and partner of Information Technology Search at WinterWyman.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More 5 non-traditional hiring tips for InfoSec There's a dramatic shortage of qualified information security professionals in the industry today.Globally, we're a million people short, according to Cisco's 2014 Annual Security Report. According to Ponemon's 2014 IT Security Jobs Report, 36 percent of staff positions and 58 percent of senior staff positions in IT security went unfilled in 2013.The majority of companies surveyed – 70 percent – says their IT security departments were understaffed.ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: How to lure tech talent with employee benefits, perks It's no surprise that some companies are turning to some non-traditional strategies for finding their cybersecurity employees.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Microsoft partners with Docker to bring containers to Windows Server Docker, the open source software company and product of the same name that allows developers to build, distribute, and run distributed applications, is bringing its software to the next version of Windows Server thanks to a new deal with Microsoft.The Docker software provides a layer of abstraction and automation of operating system–level virtualization features on Linux, thereby isolating the resources of the kernel in containers. It uses less in the way of system resources, which translates into lower overhead than virtual machines. You can run multiple containers on one server and define how much memory, CPU, and network I/O is given to each container.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More NFC chip implants: First Apple, now this guy Dangerous Things Dangerous Things' $99 13.56MHz ISO14443A & NFC Type 2 NTAG216 RFID chipset It's hard to steal Apple's thunder on anything these days, but a self-professed "body modification" enthusiast might have done just that: He's had an NFC chip implanted in his hand. Apple's near field communications (NFC) chip in its new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus smartphones pales by comparison, no? Those phone chips lay the groundwork for the new Apple Pay mobile payments technology made available with the arrival of iOS 8.1 this week.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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