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Apple’s iPhones and iPads will work better with Cisco enterprise networks

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Lindsay Posted in Apple, Cisco Leave a comment

Apple and Cisco have, through a joint statement, announced a partnership which will see Apple’s apps and devices become more productive in enterprise networks.

The goal of the partnership is to optimize Cisco’s networks for iOS devices and apps and integrate the iPhone with Cisco enterprise environments. That will create a “fast lane” for iOS business users, Apple has said in a press release.

Cisco will provide services specially optimized for iOS devices across mobile, cloud, and on premises-based collaboration tools such as Cisco Spark, Cisco Telepresence and Cisco WebEx.

“iOS is the world’s best mobile platform, and nearly every Fortune 500 and Global 500 company today has put iOS at the centre of their mobile strategy”, said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “iPhone and iPad have become essential tools for the modern workforce and are changing the way work gets done. Together with Cisco, we believe we can give businesses the tools to maximize the potential of iOS and help employees become even more productive using the devices they already love”.

Apple and Cisco are also working together to make iPhone an even better business collaboration tool in Cisco voice and video environments, with the goal of providing employees with a seamless experience between iPhone and their desk phone.

“Ninety-five percent of companies in the Fortune 500 count on Cisco Collaboration and Cisco networks to help their teams be more productive”, said Cisco Executive Chairman John Chambers. “Through this engineering and go-to-market partnership, we’re offering our joint customers the ability to seamlessly extend that awesome Cisco environment to their favorite iOS devices. Together, we’re going to help teams achieve higher levels of productivity and effectiveness”.

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Apple’s new Retina MacBook is ‘repair nightmare’

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Lindsay Posted in Apple Leave a comment

Thin, light notebook is no friend to do-it-yourselfers, says iFixit

Apple’s new 12-in. MacBook is a “repair nightmare,” as tough on do-it-yourselfers as 2012’s first Retina-equipped MacBook Pro, according to iFixit.

“The internals are unnecessarily complex; it’s a minefield of pentalobe and tri-wing screws, fragile cables snaked around essential components, and a solidly-glued-down multi-cell battery,” iFixit reported on its blog Wednesday. “Tack on the non-upgradeability, and the Retina MacBook is a repair nightmare.”

San Luis Obispo, Calif.-based iFixit — one of the Web’s best-known electronics repair firms — awards repairability scores between 1 and 10 to devices after pulling them apart. It gave the MacBook a “1,” the same slapped on the first MacBook Pro with a high-resolution display nearly three years ago. At that time, iFixit said the Retina MacBook Pro was the “least-repairable
The 12-in. MacBook’s battery pouches revealed: Remnants of the adhesive can be seen on the lower case on the right.

Apple began selling the 12-in. MacBook on April 10. The ultra-thin and ultra-light notebook — 15% lighter than the 11-in. MacBook Air, 31% lighter than the 13-in. Air — starts at $1,299.

iFixit blamed several characteristics of the MacBook for the low score, several of them a litany familiar to DIYers trying to repair Apple’s hardware, including tamperproof five-point pentalobe screws, “futuristic pegs and weird spring clips,” a hidden battery connector and “nasty adhesive” to affix the form-fitting battery pouches.

About the latter, iFixit said, “This level of precision works well for fitting the largest battery possible, but it doesn’t bode well for the idea of battery replacement.”

Apple charges $199 for an out-of-warranty battery replacement of the 12-in. MacBook, $70 more than it does for the MacBook Air, and the same price as for the 13-in. and 15-in. Retina MacBook Pro.

Like all Apple laptops, the MacBook also cannot be upgraded by the user — Apple’s far from alone there — with both RAM and SSD (solid-state drive) soldered to the logic board. The notebook is only available with 8GB of RAM, but customers can choose between models with either a 256GB or 512GB SSD.

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Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) validates the ability to install, configure, operate, and troubleshoot medium-size route and switched networks, including implementation and verification of connections to remote sites in a WAN. CCNA Certification curriculum includes basic mitigation of security threats, introduction to wireless networking concepts and terminology, and performance-based skills. This new curriculum also includes (but is not limited to) the use of these protocols: IP, Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Serial Line Interface Protocol Frame Relay, Routing Information Protocol Version 2 (RIPv2),VLANs, Ethernet, access control lists (ACLs).

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Future of the Mobile Ecosystem – Apple iPhone Applications Vs Google Android Applications

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Posted in Apple, Google

Entire ecosystem is becoming stable and mature constantly. Social media is going mobile. Smartphones are no more a luxury and have become need of the day. Social, deals, B2B segments are changing this world.

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The DNA of the mobile ecosystem is changing. What opportunities will emerge during the course of this decade? Where are the new billion dollar markets? We will explore these questions and more throughout the article with the influential minds who are shaping the mobile industry.
The entire mobile ecosystem is going to hit $1 trillion market by 2014, according to Gartner who is a well-known market- researcher in the mobile world. Gartner advises enterprises to develop a “high-level mobile strategy,” rather than committing to any particular device or platform.

What does it mean? It has been a long time that the mobile industry has set in this world. It first started off with the features of devices. Mobile devices like Motorola RAZR have changed the perception of the people using the device. The sole dominance during this phase was of the device manufacturers. This was followed by a phase in the mobile applications market that revolutionized the mobile market. A new phase of the mobile ecosystem emerged with the launching of iPhone in 2007 by Apple. The iPhone that was created by Apple gave a complete new user experience which was unmatched to the experience that was there in all other previous phones. This was the time when the mobile industry saw a new beginning. We say this as an ecosystem because Apple had created its own environment wherein nobody else other than Apple can participate. The ecosystem was closed and Apple had the sole rights of its device. Though other developers were also given a share to contribute to the system but the share is pretty small.

Now with the sole dominance of Apple , with its varied range of iPhone, iPad and iPods other competitors also came up with the market with some awesome features and here is where Google took a plunge and created Android . As a result of this there has been a sudden surge of demand for iphone applications and android applications. Google’s was a more open approach and it invited people from all sorts to take part in its development. There was an opportunity for a third ecosystem and saw the dawn of Windows. This is the third ecosystem that is emerging with a slow and steady pace. Nokia has surprisingly tied up with Windows to get their smartphones and to re-estabilish their position in the market. This phase is traditionally characterized by applications.

Going forward, the emerging phase is that of cloud services and streaming videos. The new era would be dominated by high-end applications and more complex end- to end experience including the cloud. Many mobile business systems will explore contextual cloud services hosted by others. In mature markets, including the U.S., smartphones will dominate device sales for the foreseeable future. Gartner analysts predicted. Many new device types such as tablets and e-book readers will emerge through 2012 but none comparable to the market share of smartphones and laptops. The smartphones market is very competitive with Apple’s OS (iOS) loosing to Google’s Android and onset of Windows

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Apple the World’s Top PC Maker? Depends on What You Call a PC

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Posted in Apple, Jobs, Tech

Could Apple end up being the biggest maker of personal computers by the end of 2012? It’s very possible, according to Canalys, though it depends on whether you want to count an iPad as a personal computer. Apple’s future performance, of course, will also be a factor, especially in regard to its launch strategy for the next version of the iPad.

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Apple’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) mammoth new store in New York’s Grand Central Station probably won’t be open before Black Friday, but with momentum in the PC market, renewed patents and continuing strength across its ecosystem, the company looks strong heading into one of the biggest shopping days of the year.

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The new Apple retail store under construction in Manhattan’s Grand Central Station was rumored to announce today it would open up for Black Friday, but the heavy black drapes that have covered the store were still in place as of late Tuesday, covering the sound of tools and any view of the progress. As of press time, Apple hasn’t released any information on the store, which will be the company’s biggest yet and will sit in one of the most trafficked areas in the country.

With multiple reports coming out this week indicating Apple’s power in various markets, though, it doesn’t appear that the company is in any particular need of a boost from a new store. One report even predicts that by the second half of 2012, Apple will surpass HP (NYSE: HPQ) to become the world leader in personal computer sales — but it depends on how you do the counting.

PC Dominance

Apple becoming the world’s top computer maker would depend upon whether one counts the iPad as a personal computer. The prediction is particularly dependent on the iPad 3, which is rumored to launch in early 2012. Analysts from Canalys decided to include tablet sales in the PC market.

“Including the iPad might be controversial, but if you look at what it’s being used for — things like e-mail and social networking — it can have an effect on traditional PC sales. If you are a vendor looking at this market and trying to compete in the market, you’re going to have to take the tablet into account,” Tim Coulling, analyst with Canalys, told MacNewsWorld.

Apple has seen a jump in its PC market share from 9 percent to 15 percent over the past year, if tablet sales are counted. In the field of tablets, none of Apple’s rivals can touch the iPad’s sales. Around the holiday season, though, more affordable options for gift-giving, such as Amazon’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) Kindle Fire could take a bite out of Apple’s share. Android’s release of Ice Cream Sandwich could also be a factor in giving the iPad tougher competition, Coulling said.

“Other vendors are trying to compete the best they can with iOS, but that is many years of a content system, with an extension built around it, that really attracts developers and others. Android wasn’t quite ready for tablets with Honeycomb, but … it should be more capable with its Ice Cream Sandwich platform. It really marries the tablet and phone part together and has more of the ecosystem building going on with more apps, which could be a welcome boost to Android,” said Coulling.

In terms of apps, Android might need a boost, but more from a monetary point of view. A report from Piper Jaffray Tuesday showed that while Android has 50 percent of the app market share, as much as 80 to 90 percent of the money spent on mobile apps goes to Apple, compared to just a 7 percent for Android.

It’s difficult to measure how much value the two receive from apps, though, since Apple makes money from selling software, while Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) sometimes benefits from ads sold on the apps. There are different ways to view each company’s takeaway.
Wide World of Patents

Apple’s also been handed a new potential weapon for its ceaseless patent wars. The company was reportedly reissued a patent it originally obtained in 1998 that gives it relatively broad control over location-based services.

If Apple were to enforce its patent holding, it could possibly demand that social networks such as Facebook and FourSquare — in which users can “check in” at different locations — pay up or face a courtroom. Since location-based services are becoming more popular in the mobile industry, for instance, Apple could have a great deal of leverage with this patent. For the time being, though, Apple hasn’t made any legal moves that suggest it will start enforcing it.

The company also received a patent that would use a turnable shock mount to prevent broken glass on cover screens and a buffed up version of Gorilla Glass. The product is the work of Apple engineers, but it probably won’t have the same far-reaching power as the location-based patent or some of the patents over which Apple is currently battling Samsung.

“I do not see a shock mount as the be-all, end-all solution to cracked glass. There are many other possible solutions, not the least of which are laminates or films. This is much less significant than the location-based services patent,” Adam L.K. Philipp, founder of Aeon Law, told MacNewsWorld.

Beware of dogma

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Posted in Apple, Tech, Windows

Political debate in the United States today is highly polarized. Many in Congress are so beholden to the dogma of their political party that they are unable to make rational choices that might even give a hint that the “other side” has a point. The result is that Congress seems unable to act in the best interests of the citizens it is supposed to serve, resulting in historically low approval ratings.

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IT is not immune from such polarization. There are, for example, many IT decision-makers who simply swear by open source. They believe so much in the open source model, and have had such positive initial experiences with open source tools, that they have taken the dogmatic position that all of their future software acquisitions will be made from within the open source portfolio.

On the other hand, there are decision-makers who have fully and with little reservation married themselves to proprietary platforms. The support and sense of security they get from platform buy-in has become entrenched in their go-to-market strategy, and the very mention of open source may elicit an actual, audible snort.

I find many Managed Service Providers (MSPs) that need an effective, inexpensive way to start building out their infrastructure fall in the open source camp. Unfortunately, many of them also discover that their open source toolkits have certain limitations that make it difficult for them to remain efficient and able to deliver competitively differentiated services once they build a reasonably sized customer base.

I find many proprietary platform supporters on the enterprise side, where business-as-usual often prevails. The problem for this group is that they often find themselves saddled with excessive licensing costs and overly complex products that are integrated in name only, and require extensive customization to meet even relatively simple operational needs.

So here is my suggestion to both parties: Don’t be so dogmatic. Sure, open source solutions are attractive for a variety of reasons. But they are not the end-all and be-all of software. There are plenty of proprietary solutions that offer simplicity and reasonable cost — and, most importantly, will actually do what’s needed to support your growing and increasingly complex business requirements.

It may mitigate certain types of personal/career-related risks when one buys fully into a proprietary platform that no one ever got fired for buying. But, that does not tend to be the path to differentiated success and organizational excellence. Few of us have the luxury of being able to burn through more budget and staff hours than we absolutely have to.

Actually, when it comes down to it, both MSPs and enterprises have very similar needs nowadays. They need agile, cost-efficient solutions that scale, deliver rapid time-to-benefit, and play well with others. These characteristics are not the exclusive domain of either open source or proprietary software. Nor is it impossible for either class of solution to provide them.

Facebook vs. Google+ vs. Twitter vs. LinkedIn

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Lindsay Posted in Apple, Google, Tech

Facebook and Twitter continue their momentum, while LinkedIn and Google Plus show there is plenty of social networking to go around

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Much has changed since we examined the ongoing war between Facebook and Twitter in the spring of 2010. The stakes are higher, the competition has increased, and we see LinkedIn and Google roaring into the social networking arena like never before.

A year and a half ago, you might have thought the reverse would have happened – that Facebook and/or Twitter would have crushed any remaining competitors and that would be the end of it.

Instead, what happened was that LinkedIn and Google were able to find unfilled niches, and we now have four different major social networks, each with its own specialty, but with major overlaps.

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The biggest point of overlap is in sharing news and other content online. Each site provides a mechanism for sharing the latest headlines with your friends and colleagues. Caught in the crossfire are sites that specialize in social media, where users submit and vote on Web content – and so we have seen weaker social media sites like Digg and Delicious struggle, while stronger sites like StumbleUpon and Reddit have hung in there.

Of the big four, Facebook is still the big kahuna. It now has more than 800 million members. In April 2010, analytics site Compete.com said Facebook attracted 135.4 million unique visitors, and that number improved to 156.3 million in September 2011.

What sets Facebook apart is its personal nature – and this has been both a blessing and a curse. People turn to Facebook because it is the place where more of their friends are sharing photos and general updates on their lives. The flipside is that, because people see Facebook as so personal, they are shocked when Facebook tries to leverage their personal information, and they get upset when the interface changes with new features.

Twitter benefits from its immediacy and its simplicity. At 34.7 million unique visitors in September, according to Compete, it still has a fraction of Facebook’s visitors, but has seen 60% growth since spring 2010, vs. Facebook’s 15%.

Twitter doesn’t suffer from Facebook’s personal-information problem. Apart from the occasional congressman, most people regard Twitter as a more public place, a place to share news, chime in on public events and see what others are saying about them, and this formula has remained constant. If you want the world (as opposed to just your friends) to know about something, you go to Twitter, not Facebook.

Apple selling unlocked, contract-free iPhone 4S

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Posted in Apple, Jobs, Tech

iPhone 4S buyers looking for an unlocked version of the new phone can now grab one directly from Apple.

The company has just started selling an unlocked and contract-free version of its new phone. In a nutshell, that means you can use the iPhone 4S without shelling out money for the usual two-year carrier contract. You can then jump from one network to another by picking up and inserting a micro-SIM card, which is available from each supported carrier.

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An unlocked phone is especially handy for people who travel around the world and want to be able to use it across a range of countries and carriers.

Of course, there are one or two catches.

The unlocked edition of the iPhone 4S supports only GSM carriers, so using the phone with CDMA-based Verizon Wireless or Sprint is not an option. And since there’s no two-year contract, you’ll pay the full, non-subsidized price for the phone. The 16GB iPhone 4S runs $649, the 32GB version costs $749, and the 64GB model is priced at $849.

Apple’s Web site currently shows a wait time of one to two weeks for the unlocked iPhone, the same number of weeks you’d wait for the regular subsidized version. As usual, you can buy the phone in either black or white.

Apple had initially teased users in early October that it would unveil an unlocked iPhone 4S sometime this month.

The company also sells an unlocked iPhone 4 for $549 and an unlocked 3GS for $375.

International travelers: Here is how to SIM unlock your Verizon Apple iPhone 4S

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Posted in Apple, Tech

One of the promoted specifications on the new Apple iPhone 4S is the “world phone” capability, but it isn’t quite the world phone that many international travelers who use GSM phones are used too. Macworld has a good article explaining how “worldly” your new iPhone 4S really is and as you can see it turns out the Verizon iPhone 4S may actually be the best option for international travelers. Given that I am traveling to Nokia World in London in just over a week, I just went through the entire SIM unlock process with Verizon on my new 32GB White iPhone 4S and wanted to explain the process in detail for you.
Options for international usage

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There are two ways you can use your new iPhone 4S internationally, (1) roaming directly through your US carrier partner agreements or (2) by using an international/local microSIM card with coverage in the country you are visiting. The easiest, and most expensive, option is to simply call up your carrier and enable the global option on your phone. Sprint and Verizon include global microSIM cards in your phones already so you are set after enabling the service.

I personally have and enjoy using a Truphone Local Anywhere SIM that gives me a local Seattle phone number with excellent international rates. This SIM allows me to travel all over the world with the same number and enjoy competitive rates without having to search around for local SIM cards. I get voice, data, and text with this SIM and can test it before I leave on my trips.

At this time Truphone only has standard SIM cards so I purchased this microSIM cutter from Amazon. Don’t worry, it comes with two microSIM to SIM card adapters so you can always use it with other phones with standard SIM card slots. I cut down my Truphone SIM and was ready to go.
Step-by-step to SIM unlock

Here are the steps I took to unlock my Verizon iPhone 4S and test it with my Truphone SIM.

1. Call up Verizon customer service
2. Tell them that you wish to perform an “international unlock” so that you can use a “SIM card from an international carrier” and you do NOT want the Verizon global option that uses their own SIM with roaming agreements. They will tell you that you can only perform one SIM unlock once every 10 months and if you haven’t done it in the last 10 months you should be good to go.
3. Verizon will email you an unlock agreement that you must read and then verbally agree too.
4. The Verizon rep will then have you turn off your iPhone. They will then do some things on their end that takes about 5 minutes.
5. The rep will then tell you that you need to put your international SIM in your phone and then connect via a computer and iTunes or via WiFi to perform the activation. After that you are good to go.
6. I put in my Truphone SIM and after a couple seconds it roamed to T-Mobile USA and confirmed my SIM card slot was unlocked.

I will be able to fully test and confirm this works outside the US too in just over a week. As Gloria also points out in this ZDNet article, there is some confusion around the Sprint SIM card unlocking capability.

Apple, Microsoft, Sony Sites Down. Good, Bad and Ugly Reasons Why

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Posted in Apple, Microsoft, Tech

For various reasons some very high-profile sites and services have been up and down over the last 24 hours. Find out what’s going on.
Remain Calm, All Is Well(ish)

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The Twitterverse has been thrown into various spasms of panic in recent hours with various sites and services vanishing from the Web at different times. The basic details are:

Apple: The company store went down for an update, to much rumors of an iPhone 5 announcement (most likely pre-orders). When it came back up, there had been a redesign to make it more friendly to pick and buy the right iPad. With steps to choose the color, RAM and connectivity options, all made simpler. With nothing more dramatic than that, back to business.

Apple’s new store features making picking options easier

Microsoft: Microsoft has had trouble with some DNS resolution problems beyond its control, making MS services including the likes of Office 365, Azure, Hotmail and other cloud services vanish to users. Services seem to have been largely restored by around 4AM EST.

Microsoft’s services have been restored

Sony: Sony suffered due to the power problems affecting California down to Mexico with some game servers being knocked offline. Sony Online Entertainment is reporting that “The San Diego power outage could persist throughout the night affecting log-in servers, forums, and websites. We appreciate everyone’s patience as the City attempts to restore power.”
Using People Power

With millions lacking power in San Diego and other areas, many other services also seem to have been affected. Companies can use the break in service as a live test of their back-up, alternate service providers and disaster recovery procedures.

All this comes after Google Docs vanished the other day, and continues this year’s bad run of downtime. Let us know in the comments, if anything else is currently unavailable and we’ll add them to list of try and find out what the problem is.