iPhone and iPad resouces: 2012

Saturday, October 6, 2012

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Foxconn Workers Walk Off Job, Says China Labor Watch

According to worker watchdog group, China Labor Watch, thousands of Chinese workers at a Foxconn plant have gone on strike. The labor dispute arrives on the heels of recent riots and other reports of unrest within Apple's iPhone 5 manufacturing supplier.

China Labor Watch issued a press release today, stating that as many as four-thousand Foxconn employees created a work stoppage, protesting current working conditions. Allegedly, increased attention to quality standards has led to the unrest.

Only two weeks ago, thousands of laborers at the Taiyuan, China facility erupted into a brawl. Apparently, increased pressure on quality control inspectors has caused the current conflict, as QA agents are facing difficult working conditions from both management and fellow workers.

"Quality control inspectors fell

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The 10 Hottest Apple News Stories, The Week of October 5

Life? For shame, for shame, after all the crafting and hunting and reviewing of the news we do for you? Well, we love you so much, Dear Reader, that we've even gone and picked out some highlights for you in case you're in a hurry.

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TMCnet Network Management Week in Review

learn more now Network Management Case Studies & White Papers Whitepaper: The Evolution to Real-time IT
Real time IT can dramatically improve productivity and change entire business models by rapidly enabling and managing new applications to achieve bottom-line business value.Case Study: Motorola (NSN) Element Manager HRPDA (EMH)
Motorola EVDO Data Call Management system named EMH

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TMCnet Machine to Machine Solutions Week in Review

- Alert) Global Enterprise, Vodafone's specialist enterprise organization, signed an agreement with Netcomm Wireless, a developer of broadband products, which has the company supplying Vodafone with M2M cellular modems for its global M2M business. The official word from Netcomm is that the M2M IP modems being supplied have been custom designed to meet the "global deployment requirements of Vodafone and its partners."

Telit Wireless (News - Alert) Solutions, a global vendor of high-quality M2M modules and value-added services, introduced the DE910-DUAL Mini PCIe for commercial and industrial computer markets. To easily integrate wireless connectivity into devices, the mini PCIe form factor has become a popular standard adopted by connected device manufacturers. Supporting 3.1Mbps downlink rates and 1.8Mbps uplink rates; it has become North America's first full-featured EV-DO mini PCIe modem. Fully compatible with its HSPA

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TMCnet Business Process Outsourcing Week in Review

- Alert) recently released Toad for Oracle 11.6. This new version offers anywhere access to some functionality for Oracle database professionals, the company has stated. When it comes to the development and administration of Oracle databases, Toad for Oracle provides the best possible productivity. The new version brings together the functionality available with a vast array of automation and intuitive workflows.

Lending Club, a platform for investing in and obtaining personal loans, recently signed an agreement with Oracle for Oracle’s ERP Cloud Service. Officials from Lending Club said the company will integrate Oracle’s services with Lending Club's online lending platform to improve decision-making and workflow, implement robust reporting, and take advantage of the inherent scalability and cost savings provided by the cloud.

Securing the large amount of data that is created each and every day is a monumental task. The constant threat from hackers who are trying to access your information means the security measures you use have to work every time an attempt is made. An effective data loss or leak prevention solution protects your data at all times even while it is in use, in motion or at-rest. The risk of data loss or leak becomes that much greater when services are outsourced. NTT Com announced it is going to provide network profiling, file verification and data loss prevention (DLP) for total outsourcing security risk management solutions as part of its Managed Security Services.

The service is especially geared towards cyber attacks targeting enterprises. It will protect ICT environments by detecting threats and reducing the risk of data leakage resulting from targeted attacks by giving customers tools with strong security measures.

Stay tuned to the business process outsourcing community each week for the latest industry news, trends and resources.

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TMCnet Call Center Software Week in Review

- Alert) 3G/4G LTEnetworks, has entered into a multimillion-dollar, multi-year contract with Redknee. Redknee will provide its cloud-based converged billing and customer relations solution to Step Up Mobile as a completely managed Software-as-a-Service solution. Redknee’s cloud-based solution works on a Microsoft (News

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Managed Service Provider Week in Review

MSPAlliance MSPWorld™ The World’s Premier ManagedServices and Cloud Computing Event The MSPWorld 2012 conference will focus on: Managed Services Leadership Course for Executives Financial and Business Matters Facing Cloud and MSPs Managed Services Professionalism & Ethics Strategies for Evaluating Vendors Managed Security Cloud Infrastructure Development, Management, and Provisioning Managed Services NOC & Help Desk Practices

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TMCnet Email Hosting Week in Review

- Alert) Exchange mailboxes, allowing MSP partners to much less complexly manage and maintain Outlook .pst files for email storage and archiving.

With this offering in place, partners can see a much greater level of control and flexibility over e-mail messaging data.

"We are constantly striving to make our suite of services the industry's most efficient and effective platform for MSPs to squeeze the highest margins out of their services," said Matt Baldwin, CTO at VAR Dynamics.

Also this week, Zarafa inked a partnership with Yubico to integrate YubiKey security into its email hosting offering. This strategic alliance was made in hopes of driving server level security for customers while gaining a competitive edge against Microsoft Exchange. Powered by an open source software suite, this product can be seamlessly integrated with common open source components and can successfully run on various platforms including Linux, Red Hat, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Debian and Ubuntu (News - Alert).

“The YubiKey is a cheap hardware authentication token that looks like a small USB memory stick,” according to a statement by company officials. “By touching the integrated button, the YubiKey sends a time-variant, secure login code as if it was typed in from a keyboard. The unique passcode is verified by a YubiKey compliant Web service or software application.”

Lastly, Microsoft revealed that it just made it much easier for users to view information via Outlook. In fact, the revamped version of the offering coined Outlook 13 will come complete with a hybrid cached mode. Touted as the first real change to Outlook since 2003, this added capability will help IT managers see exactly what’s going on in every area of their infrastructure.

Moreover, it will make it much less complex to switch from the online to local access loading.

Be sure to check back next week to the email hosting community for a variety of breaking news!

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TMCnet Office 365 Week in Review

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TMCnet Network Packet Broker Week in Review

for Enterprise- A SANS Whitepaper View More Network Packet Broker Videos Network Monitoring 2.0 for 4G/LTE Network Intelligence Optimization View More Network Packet Broker Podcasts Ten Questions to Ask Your Traffic Capture Vendor Feature Focus: Time Stamping - NTP Edition Focus: Network Security Feature Focus: vStack

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TMCnet's Unified Communications Week in Review

now?” asked Dolan.

Read more about Dolan’s keynote address and his views on UC in the technology space via the full report.

That’s it for this week’s unified communications week in review. Be sure to visit TMCnet’s unified communications community for up to the minute news on all things unified communications.

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TMCnet's Hosted IVR Week in Review

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TMCnet Free Predictive Dialer Week in Review

Video of the Week Featured Case Study System wide adoption of a VoIP solution
Kunnect conducted a pilot deployment of a hosted, open standards, session initiation protocol (SIP)-based voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) solution at one of its medium-size corporate sites in California, USA ...

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TMCnet VoIP Routers Week in Review

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TMCnet Dark Fiber Week in Review

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TMCnet Embedded M2M Solutions Week in Review

u-blox Releases SARA GSM Modules for M2M, Mobile Applications COFC Logistics Selects SkyBitz for Efficient Asset Tracking Cinterion Launches Ultra Compact, High-Speed M2M Communication Module Is China Making Moves in the M2M Module Market? Nokia's NAVTEQ Maps Power Next Generation BMW Navigation System
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TMCnet Next Generation Communications Week in Review

Resource Center » View All Whitepapers Videos Case Studies Getting Smart about Smart Cities - Enterprise Market AnalysisCreating Your Smart Grid: A How-To GuideAlcatel-Lucent Video Analytics: An AppGlide Service5620 SAM Integrated IP Optical Core Management EN Solutionsheet5620 SAM IP Core Management EN Solutionsheet Alcatel-Lucent dynamic communications for Urban and Main Line Rail4 Principles to Building a Versatile Core RouterAlcatel-Lucent & Cassidian LTE co-creation program for PMR usersAlcatel-Lucent's Corporate Responsibility: A Business Imperative Energizing the Edge Hamilton Southeastern School District Case StudyAny Place, Any Time, Any Device: 100G Network Delivers Major Bandwidth IncreaseAltalink's Smart Grid Transformation Creates Flexibility And ValueOMV, Austria: Optimizing Oil Production At The WellheadOG&E'S Smart Grid Revolutionizes Network Control Blogs » View All NextGen Voice » View All
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10/2/2012 TIS Growth Speeds Up in 2012's Second Quarter
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TMCnet Call Recording Week in Review

SIP Print Uses Innovative Design Elements and Thought Leadership to Rank the "Call Recording" Comminuty at the Top of Search Engines: SIP Print has been sponsoring the "Call Recording" Online Community since March, 2009. Recently, the site went through a re-design to optimize the visual appearance of, and content on, the site. This Case Study highlights how SIP Print maintains their Online Community, and outlines how they are able to use the Online Community to position SIP Print as an industry leader and keep ranking at the top of major search engines week a

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How to Automatically Open iTunes with the iPhone and iPad

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I have set both my iPhone 4 and my iPad 2 to automatically open iTunes when connected to my MacBook Pro, in order to be synced. Neither of them opens iTunes, but they do open iPhoto. How do I get them to open iTunes as they should?

Open iTunes (version 10 or later), and connect your device. In the Summary tab of the device pane, disable the option to

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Court Will Take a Second Look at Galaxy Tab Sales Ban

Leading in to the drama that unfolded between Apple and Samsung in a California courtroom this summer, an injunction was granted on sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Now, as the landmark case makes its way through what will likely turn into a lengthy appeals battle, Samsung may have a chance to finally lift the ban.

Today, The Federal U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington allowed for reconsideration of the preliminary injunction granted to Apple, which blocked the sale of Samsung's Galaxy Tab in the United States. Judge Lucy Koh, who presided over the case, had previously stated her inability to act on the injunction, according to Reuters.

While Apple was unable to convince the court Samsung smartphones, like the Infuse 4G, required injunctions, Koh granted the sales stoppage on the Galaxy Tab. Apparently, the judge found it feasible that Apple had shown a "likelihood of success" in proving the Galaxy Tab as infringing on the company's patents.

But when the dust settled, and Apple walked away the clear victor with $1.05 billion in damages, the Galaxy Tab wasn't a focal point. While the jury found plenty of examples in regards to patent infringement, the alleged infringement to which Apple based the Galaxy Tab injunction -- an '899 patent -- was dismissed.

Samsung has since argued the injunction must be removed, as the jury didn't find a violation in regards to the Galaxy Tab. With today's move from the Court of Appeals, Koh should have the ability to reevaluate the sales ban.

When Apple's attorneys asked for the preliminary injection to be upheld, the court required Apple to submit a $2.6 million bond, in the event Samsung succeeded. Obviously, it's a fair bet Samsung's attorneys will ask for the court to withhold the bond, now that the Galaxy Tab patent infringement was found to be without merit by the jury.

Moreover, Samsung will more than likely ask for damages sustained as a result of the sales ban. Apple and Samsung are continuing to fight over patents in courtrooms across the globe, with each party taking its share of wins or losses. Most recently, Samsung has indicated it believes there was jury misconduct involved in the original trial.

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The 10 Hottest Apple News Stories, The Week of September 28

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A bit of a mixed bag this week as the news cycle recovers from the iPhone 5 launch. Hey, didn't Amazon do something that no one is talking about anymore? I guess now we batten down the hatches and see whatever became of all those iPad mini rumors. We're just shy of October when the drop is supposed to happen. Here's to waiting.

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Australian Government Seeks Public Feedback on New ITC Strategy

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SIP Trunking and the New Normal

NEWBroadvox VAR Testimonial VAR 1: Part 1 of the VAR (Value Added Reseller) Partner Program Testimonials for Broadvox. ... Interview with Ingate: Ingate's Steve Johnson talks to Juliana Kenny at ITEXPO West 2011 in Austin, Texas about the evolution of unified communications and SIP trunking ... E-SBCs AS The Demarcation Point: Ingate's Steve Johnson talks to Erik Linask about the role session border controller plays as the demarcation point at ... Steve Johnson of IngateErik Linask, Group Editorial Director of TMC speaks with President, IngateDemystifying DPIHow can deep packet inspection protect your SIP traffic as well as your entire network?

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

How to Ensure Your Mac is Working Properly

The Mac is a wonderful tool for both work and entertainment, but how do you know that your Mac is performing at its optimum? Do you know if your hard drive is about to fail? Fortunately, you can take a few simple measures to find out how your Mac is performing, and ensure that the hardware is working properly. Continue reading to learn more.

Checking the Hard Drive

Hard drives, and even SSDs, are susceptible to failure. You never know when a drive will fail, but when it does, you’ll definitely feel the effects of it. You should always have a good backup of your Mac’s drive by using either Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the drive. Having a good backup will ensure that when your drive does fail, you’ll be back up and running in no time.

The majority of drives include a feature called S.M.A.R.T. (or Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology). By checking on the S.M.A.R.T. status of the drive, you will be alerted to potential upcoming drive failures.

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Sales Management in a Slow-growing Economy

All-in-One Cloud-based Contact Center Allows Contact Centers to Expand without PainMany contact centers continue to operate on legacy equipment because they feel they have no need to change. Expanded functionality, while nice to have, may not be enough of a driver to seek not only a new solution, but a new delivery model.

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Sunday, September 23, 2012

How to Get Started with TextExpander

that expand into larger chunks of text or an image--anything you find yourself typing again and again, you can shorten. TextExpander 4 is $34.95 at www.smilesoftware.com, and users of TextExpander 3 can upgrade for just $15.

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How to Downgrade Back to iOS 5

Did you upgrade to iOS 6 with the thoughts that you’d have a better mobile experience on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, but didn’t? It's Maps, isn't it? Luckily, you can downgrade your device with ease back to iOS 5.1.1, and update again when Apple's released a fix for some of the features that are bugging you. Continue reading, and we’ll show you how to get your iOS 6 device back to working on iOS 5.

1. Download Your IPSW

To restore, you’ll need to download the IPSW file of iOS 5.1.1 from Apple’s servers to restore your device. Click on one of the links below to download your specific version of iOS 5.1.1:

- iPad 1
- iPad 2 Wi-Fi
- iPad 2 (GSM - AT&T)
- iPad 2 (CDMA - Verizon)
- iPad 2,4 (New iPad 2)
- iPad 3 Wi-Fi
- iPad 3 (GSM - AT&T)
- iPad 3 (CDMA)
- iPhone 3GS
- iPhone 4 (GSM)
- iPhone 4 (CDMA)
- iPhone 4S
- iPod touch 3rd generation
- iPod touch 4th generation

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Black iPhone 5 May Scuff Easily, Still Beats Galaxy S3 in Drop Test

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The iPhone 5, like every Cupertino-designed device, is a real eye-catcher. While adding a reliable case is an obvious choice for protecting such a high-dollar product, plenty of users will forgo physical security in the name of sleek design and a thin profile. But if you're picking up a new iPhone in black, be forewarned the aluminum back may show wear rapidly.

When Apple decided to drop the glass backing of the iPhone 4S in favor of anodized aluminum, there were immediate benefits. Chiefly, the overall weight of the iPhone 5 dropped significantly -- around 20-percent. And that's not even to mention those unsightly, spider-webbed panels thanks to one clumsy fumble.

But as with most design decisions, there are pros and cons. According to some early reports, the black iPhone 5 is extra susceptible to scratches.

A forum user at Overclockers UK (via MacRumors) decided to test out the black aluminum case, by taking a key and SIM card pin to the finish. Looking at the image -- well, it's not pretty.

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How to Keep iTunes from Automatically Downloading Purchased Items

It asks for my iTunes account credentials. I’ve tried to get rid of this message, but it keeps popping up every few minutes. I’ve taken the computer to the Genius Bar, but they were unable to remove the message. What can I do to stop this annoying popup?

If you don’t already have a Mac set up to automatically download your purchases from iTunes, then iTunes will request that you set up this feature. Unfortunately, it does this in a rather annoying way. But the feature is pretty handy: it automatically downloads any purchase made on any device linked to your account. So if you buy an app, movie, music, or book on your iOS device, it’s also downloaded to your computer, no syncing necessary.

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New Job: Standing in Line for the iPhone 5

Charlie Hufnagel was first in line for the iPhone 5--for someone else.

It's iPhone 5 day, and Apple Stores around the country opened its doors an hour early to greet hoards of diehard Apple devotees with a new handset. It's a fairly exciting sight to see: people line up early in the morning -- some even camp out for days -- for the chance to be one of the first to get their hands on the device. Those who were queued downtown at the San Francisco Apple Store -- where I participated in the iPhone launch -- had lined up on a whim early in the morning without a pre-order to guarantee them a unit. The person at the very front of the line, however, wasn't there for his own iPhone, but to wait in line for someone else. And he was paid to do it.

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The 10 Hottest Apple News Stories, The Week of September 21

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This was a big week for Apple fans. Not only was new handset released for those looking to upgrade, but the newest OS came out with a bunch of shiny new love for all the good boys and girls. It was almost like Christmas. So what are some of these fun new features and news? Let's have a look.

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Deals: Get Your iTunes in Order with TuneUp

A well organized iTunes is a thing of absolute beauty. Album information fully filled out, artist names completely in order, no duplicates listed--it's enough to bring a single tear to your eye. Unfortunately, none of our iTunes libraries look anything like this. They're disorganized, searchable only by us because we understand the cryptology that is behind our methods. Cut down on your attempts to decipher of your code with TuneUp. It's the ultimate iTunes add-on, and it's on sale now.

TuneUp is extremely powerful iTunes management tool that will clean up, organize, and complete missing fields in your library. Through some sort of technological magic, TuneUp will correct mislabeled or incomplete song data, scour the web for proper cover art, removes duplicate songs, and pulls in extra artist information that you'd otherwise have to enter by hand. It turns your iTunes into the media library you always planned to make it--with no effort on your part.

TuneUp's usual ticket price is $50. While it's well-worth it at full cost, why pay it if you don't have to? We've slashed the price by 40%, making it a more than reasonable $30. An excellent price for an awesome app. Get it today.

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Deals: Free Lifetime Subscription to Pandora One

You've used Pandora before, right? Of course you have. You're not some sort of savage that has spent all your time trapped in a music-less purgatory of a life. You're a civilized, well-adjusted member of society with sophisticated tastes. Pandora understands that and makes mixes for you based on your love of the finer sounds. We're excluding that Pitbull station that you have--we've all got our guilty pleasures. Get more of that music and skip over the ads that have become an inevitable part of the experience with Pandora One. The pro service it totally ad free, and if you win our giveaway it'll be totally free to you.

That's right, we're giving away a subscription to Pandora One. Not just one year of it, but an entire lifetime's subscription. 100 years of ad-free music can be yours. You can probably even pass a few years on to your children. We're not rooting for that or anyway--we hope you live forever. Just get this giveaway while you can. Head over to our Deals tab and get entered.

You know what you can do with all the money you've saved once you win the Pandora One giveaway? You can put a little down to snag some awesome apps in our Name Your Price bundle. $1 or $100, you'll get the same awesome pack of programs. Get that already, why don't you?

TMCnet IVR Week in Review

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TMCnet GreenTech Week in Review

- Alert) low-voltage products, including motor controls, pilot devices and communication devices. Siemens’ Low and Medium Voltages help clients increase energy efficiency and improve productivity. With these products, clients can avoid expensive power interruptions, equipment breakdowns and start-up costs.

The solutions are widely used in an airports, hospitals, data centers, food processing facilities and shopping centers,

Applied Nanotech Holdings has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant, worth $999,990, from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop ultra-lightweight hydrogen fuel tanks using carbon nanotube (CNT) reinforcement. The two-year grant aims to significantly improve the mechanical properties of the carbon fiber/epoxy material used to construct hydrogen fuel tanks with CNT reinforcement. The goal is to reduce the weight of the tanks by 20 percent or more, in order to cut the cost of hydrogen fuel tanks and increase the vehicles’ fuel efficiency.

Organic light-emitting diodes (OLED), which can be used to create digital displays in television screens, computer monitors and mobile phones, earned revenue of more than $1.69 billion in 2011, according to a report just released by Frost & Sullivan (News - Alert). In OLEDS, a film made of an organic compound emits light in response to an electric current. OLED displays can use either passive-matrix (PMOLED) or active-matrix (AMOLED) addressing schemes. AMOLEDs require a thin-film transistor backplane to switch each individual pixel on or off, but allow for higher resolution and larger display sizes.

The report contends that OLEDs have an advantage over liquid crystal displays (LCD) because their OLED displays are thinner, lightweight and printable.That’s all for this week, but green energy never stops. Check back next week for more!

Want to learn more about the latest in communications and technology? Then be sure to attend ITEXPO West 2012, taking place Oct. 2-5, in Austin, TX. Stay in touch with everything happening at ITEXPO (News - Alert). Follow us on Twitter.

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TMCnet Contact Center on Demand Week in Review

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Israel Brokerage & Investments (IBI), Ltd. A leading company listed in The Israeli Stock Exchange Market offers a broad range of investment management and trading. One of the biggest fears a company can experience is complete operation shut down during disaster. Last year, IBI Investments, experienced this exact situation when a floor of their building (below them) caught on fire. Fortunately all the workers were able to exit safely. Even more fortunately, the Tikal Networks IP-PBX and Crystal Call Center was hosted in a remote location. Tikal Networks developed a unique feature called "remote agent". This feature gives every user the ability to call from a remote location and use all the features available at their desk. This gives any user the ability to keep on working without any change in features or operations. To assure complete uninterrupted operation, IBI's IT management also took the precaution to host the telephony system off the premises. This way, no single event can prevent the operation from regular operation.

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Managed Service Provider Week in Review

TMCnet Call Center Software Week in Review

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HealthTech Zone Week in Review

Six Things Hospitals Need to Know About Supporting the Adoption of Smartphones Pagers have been an essential part of healthcare communications for a long time due to their ability to provide reliable communications at a low cost. When pagers emerged on the healthcare scene, they fundamentally changed the way doctors, nurses, and administrators could be notified that... DOWNLOAD NOW

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TMCnet Business Process Outsourcing Week in Review

7 Steps to Creating a Powerful Teleprospecting Engine
When was the last time you performed an audit on your telesprospecting process? Putting actionable strategies in place will convert teleprospecting from a tactical afterthought to a strategic asset.

Come learn as SiriusDecisions discusses insights from their 2012 Teleprospecting Study.

Hosted by Jeff Farr, Vice President B2B Solutions, with our Special Guest Speaker, Jason Hekl, Research Director, SiriusDecisions.

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Mobility TechZone Week in Review

MobilityTechzone Headlines Skyhook Wireless Launches Wi-Fi Willful Patent Infringement Suit Against 'Evil' Google The iPhone 5 - iFixit Takes it Apart Bit by Bit, is it a Wonder to Behold? FCC Claims No Knowledge of LightSquared GPS Interference German Court Dismisses Apple's Lawsuit against Samsung, Motorola Mobility RIM Suffers Outages in Europe, Africa and Middle East View all » --

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TMCnet Cloud Data Center Week in Review

Impact of Air Containment Systems
This white paper discusses the importance of deploying proper cooling energy efficiency in the data center and explains how Panduit's innovative passive thermal management technologies (including Net-Access™ Cabinets, Vertical Exhaust Duct, and the Cool Boot™ Air Sealing Grommet) house IT assets and applications in a reliable, secure environment and provide a scalable solution for network stakeholders to manage extreme heat loads and optimize power and cooling efficiencies.

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Enterprise Call Recording Week in Review

Enterprise Call Recording Whitepapers Using Business Intelligence to Transform Yourself into a Contact Center Hero
Contact centers are the front line of customer interactions. Learn how speech and desktop analytics can uncover hidden business intelligence.Capturing Voice of the Customer
Explore how voice of the customer (VoC) provides insight into how customers judge agents and whether their expectations were met.Call Recording and PCI v2.0 Compliance
Learn how PCI DSS impacts call recording, and what you can do to ensure you operate in compliance with the PCI DSS v2.0.10 Secrets to Boosting First Call Resolution
Look at why contact centers should implement FCR as an essential KPI and examine the challenges associated with doing so."This Call May Be Recorded

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TMCnet Enterprise Solutions Week in Review

boxes, surveillance cameras, and interactive lobbykiosks) as well as required network infrastructure (cabling, switches, connectors, and related protocols).

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TMCnet Email Hosting Week in Review

to be a broad and deep release. So for those folks that are in the small to medium business realm, we’ve made some huge investments to really ease the operations of the server itself,” said Jeff Woolsey, principal program manager with Microsoft’s corporate team, ZDnet’s Stilgherrian reported.

Does e-mail hosting provider Microsoft dominate “cloud scale” with Server 2012, Cloud OS? Click here to read more.

When using a cloud computing solution such as e-mail hosting, it is vital that organizations implement a proven and trusted offering that will enable them to collaborate with all members on their team without any associated complexity.

SherWeb’s hosted Exchange 2010 toolset lets users share documents, calendars, contacts and tasks whether it is in the office, on a smartphone such as BlackBerry (News

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TechZone360 Week in Review

EDITOR'S CHOICE TriQuint Releases Next-Generation Power Amplifier Microsoft Wins Third Legal Victory against Google Man Takes Hostage in Pittsburgh, Posts Facebook Updates Nexus 7 vs. Kindle Fire HD 7 inch Wi-Fi: You'll Like One Better

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TMCnet Live Chat Week in Review

- Alert). Vox.io is about making communications better. This product feature enables a better experience for our users and that is what we care about most.”

Lastly, LogMeIn’s latest product feature BoldChat Web chat and multichannel, online customer engagement offering, now features Twitter (News - Alert) integration and social media management. Twitter Management is a part of the standard BoldChat Enterprise edition, available as a free update to BoldChat Enterprise customers.

With this solution in place, customer service agents can manage their Twitter interactions with ease and improve efficiency. When combined with BoldChat’s other capabilities, including Web chat, e-mail, and click-to-call, it becomes a unified tool for customer conversations. Customer service teams can automatically turn related tweets into a conversation for improved context and responses, while assigning incoming tweets to agents based on availability, skill, and department.

"Twitter is quickly becoming a go-to channel for customer engagement, but to date, managing these customer conversations has meant trying to turn a social media marketing tool into a customer service tool,” Steve Castro-Miller (News - Alert), VP of Chat Products at LogMeIn, Inc. concluded. “In contrast, BoldChat Twitter management is designed from the ground up for engaging and managing customer conversations. We believe that the right approach is not just adding one more social tool to the mix, but rather giving sales, marketing and customer service teams a single, unified tool for managing all customer interactions, regardless of channel."

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contacts," told her that the technology giant will kick off an Office 2013 upgrade program on October 19 and that users who buy Office 2010 between that date and April 30, 2013 will see more pretty significant benefits.

Be sure to check back each and every week to the Office 365 community for all of the latest news in the space!

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Air China Extends Call Center Business Hours to Meet Increasing Demands
Recently, Air China elongated the business hours on weekends of its call center based in Los Angeles, Calif. in order to improve customer service and to be better able to respond to increasing demands. The new schedule will enable the center to remain open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST), Monday through Friday. During weekends and on public holidays, the service hours will remain the same -7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. PST.

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- Alert), a company that specializes in offering mobile computing and machine-to-machine (M2M) communications products and solutions, has recently unveiled AirPrime SL9090, a multimode product joining to its award-winning AirPrime SL Series. The new multimode module product, AirPrime SL9090 is scheduled for commercial release in the fourth quarter of this year, offering device manufacturers the ability to operate on networks that use either HSPA

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Going to Extremes with Aperture

That’s just a split second basically to make the shot. And there would be no second chance to shoot it, no take two, because I couldn’t really ask him to go up and do it again.

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Monday, September 17, 2012

Deals: Train Simple Teaches You Web Design

Deep down, we all want to be web designers. It's an increasingly useful skill set that serves those that have it very well. Whether you want to make a little money on the side doing occasional design work, you're hoping to start your own business, or you just think your cat is deserving of his own online domain, you can do it all with the right knowledge. Train Simple brings you that understanding with a year of training, on sale in our Deals tab for under $50.

Train Simple does its best to be true to its name when it comes to teaching Adobe authorized training. By offering extensive information in easily digestible bits, Train Simple promises to give you a complete grasp over all things Adobe web design. With 49 courses and over 2,500 videos that teach everything from Photoshop and InDesign to HTML5 and Javascript. There's no line of code you won't read like a second language once you're done with the courses Train Simple offers.

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iPhone 5 Pre-orders Hit 2 Million in 24 Hours, Sets New Record

It's no surprise: this is the phone we've been waiting for. Apple confirmed this morning that pre-orders of the upcoming iPhone 5 reached 2 million in just 24 hours. That number pushes the iPhone 4S pre-orders out of the top slot by nearly double. Apple also mentioned that some customers will be left behind as demand for the device is exceeding the supply.

Phil Schiller also had a bit to say about the iPhone 5 pre-orders in Apple's latest press release:

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Wild Blood Review

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Warping classic Arthurian legend into a more twisted tale of demons and deception proves a silly but sufficient foundation for high-gloss hack-and-slash adventure in Wild Blood. Gameloft's latest Unreal Engine 3 powered beauty pits you as a burly Sir Lancelot, who must carve his way through unholy hordes to stop a crazed King Arthur that has unleashed hell upon his kingdom in a fit of jealous rage. While this slick slaughter fest is heavy on the eye candy, it doesn't measure up quite as well in the slice-and-dice department.

This formulaic spin through a gorgeous looking realm is brimming with pit-stops full of nasty summoned beasties to cut through before you can proceed to the next area. Three distinct weapon types -- a huge sword, twin axes, and a bow -- bolstered by magic attacks and unique combos offer some sound choices for demon-stomping. Wild Blood's straightforward combat often devolves into frantic button mashing, but battles are satisfying when you're violently thrashing through a throng of face-gnawing baddies, leaving a trail of bodies in your wake. A great range of unique foe types and levels capped by grandiose boss encounters help keep the epic scope of the adventure intact. Some distractions along the way -- like clunky turret sequences -- are tedious trip-ups, while puzzle chests deliver more enjoyable breaks in the action.

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Wi-LAN Signs License Agreement with SENSIO Technologies

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Ericsson Partners with SingTel for 4G/LTE Network Deployment

T-Mobile USA Chooses Tekelec's Diameter Signaling Router for Buildout of its LTE Network

Wick Hill to Distribute Xirrus High Performance Wireless Networks in UK
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Soffront's Customer Relationship Management Solution Improves Customer Acquisition

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Innovation in Business

- Alert) is now solely focused on services – its iconic ThinkPad is now made by Lenovo. When we think of the Internet, we think of Google, which has achieved its position by developing an unbeatable core proposition and not being afraid to experiment with related services.

This is where the trick to successful innovation lies. It is about understanding what makes your company successful in the first place, and maintaining that as a core focus. However, that must be accompanied by a company-wide understanding that just because a service or product is a core focus, it is not set in stone. If circumstances change, then the business should change with them. If there are alternatives or improvements they can be discussed, modelled and tested. A core product offering also means there are ways to add new complementary services. As a provider of e-commerce services, I am always looking for new ways to facilitate B2C and C2C payments, for example, or ways to help online retail customers expand their service into new territories.

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- Alert) suggested that the Surface was clearly targeting the iPad line--not surprising, as most tablet releases have been measured against the iPad with many wondering "is this the iPad-killer?"--but whether it was planning to compete on price, features, or both, Ballmer's responses weren't quite saying.

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Mentum Launches Free Ellipse Express Edition for Global Microwave Engineers' Community
In an effort to pave the way for network planning innovations, Mentum, is offering the Mentum Ellipse Express, a free edition of the company's popular enterprise-grade wireless backhaul planning and optimization software solution, Mentum Ellipse to the microwave engineers across the globe.

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Network Attached Storage Comes to Europe

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Windows Tablets to Overtake Android, Thanks to Microsoft Office 365

- Alert) and Android devices’ market shares,” Chiou said in a recent article.

Chiou issued his forecasts for Microsoft tablets with Office 365, Android and iPad tablets in a Witsview report titled, “2010-2015 Market Shares of Tablet PC Operating Systems.” WitsView is a subsidiary of the Taiwan-based Trendforce. The predictions come from tracking shipments of PCs and LCD panels.

While Office 365 might give Windows 8-based tablets a competitive edge over Android tablets, it’s not expected to dent Apple’s position as the leader in the tablet segment. The iPad currently accounts for 62 percent of the tablet market share. And by 2015, Chiou expects that number to drop to 59 percent, while it will still remain the most popular tablet by far.

The Android tablet market share, however, will drop from 32 percent to 21 percent, while Windows-based tablets rise to 19 percent.

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Comcast Introduces VoiceEdge in California

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Sunday, September 16, 2012

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Apps are becoming one of the most popular ways to deliver a service or content. Apple's iPhone 5 announcement carried plenty of important information, but perhaps the most interesting was that there are 700,000 iOS apps in the App Store. As such, having an impressive presence is top priority for any app creator. Iconnice has some great templates that will give potential users the information that they need in a visually pleasing medium. All of the templates and vectors in the Iconnice bundle contain Photoshop, HTML, CSS, and JS files. That means they're yours for the manipulating.

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- Alert) Technologies Ltd. has unveiled the latest version of its mobile workforce management solutions, currently offered with updated features and tools. The new version is built with support from latest mobile, scheduling and GPS technology to enable companies to proactively manage their service organization.

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TMCnet Enterprise Call Recording Week in Review

- Alert) IPedge IP business telephone solution. The integrations are run by Toshiba’s Computer Telephony Integration enhancements, enabling information exchange between third-party applications and IP edge systems that use SIP trunking.

OAISYS (News - Alert) software can now identify details including agent ID, dialed number, extension, incoming caller ID, call direction and duration. Users can tag and identify calls, trigger recording, control access rights and narrow search criteria. OAISYS is the only call recording vendor offering IPedge integration.

Also this week, Splunk unveiled its Splunk (News - Alert) App for PCI Compliance 2.0. Businesses using the app can create audit trails for log review and report accesses as well as scorecards for multiple PCI requirements. Additionally, the app includes workflow capabilities and reviews for incidents, security and operations.

Finally, a judge ruled this week that capturing data from a public, unencrypted Wi-Fi hotspot is legal. The ruling comes as part of a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Innovatio.

The company has gone after businesses using its patented packet sniffing technology, which has a number of legitimate uses including network analysis, security breach detection and usage monitoring. However, the collateral damage from the ruling means that gathering information over an unencrypted Wi-Fi hotspot, even if used for nefarious purposes, is still legal.

With this news, we wrap up the week in Enterprise Call Recording. Stay tuned to TMCnet for all of the latest news from the Enterprise Call Recording community.

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- Alert) International. Sales Simplicity Software, a company helping homebuilders automate with dynamic content management, and reporting, announced addition of more than 1,200 new housing starts in its sales automation system so far in 2012. T-Mobile is adding 100 new employees to its contact center in Maine by the end of the year. Russian mobile operator Megafon has opened a new multilingual call center for the managing directorate of the Universiade 2013, which will take place in Kazan, Russia, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, 800 kilometers east of Moscow. Panama has implemented SaaS CRM solution from FreeCRM.com to automate call center operations and streamline governmental services in the country's Office of Social Services, La Caja de Seguro Social. The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has renewed its contract with Telax as its hosted call center solutions provider.

The product side of things was also abuzz with news this week which included:

Interactive Intelligence’s upgrade to its popular Interaction Process Automation solution. Business discovery company QlikTech announced that TalkTalk - a broadband, home phone and mobile provider - is piloting its QlikView Business Discovery platform. Aspect (News - Alert) released Version 7.1 of its Unified IP Contact Center Solution. Lexifone stated that it is about to triple the annual sales of its automated voice translation service. Drishti has enhanced its AMEYO contact center reporting solution, Reportika, which enables contact center administrators to better track multiple campaigns and agent activities.

Last and certainly not least you should read Art Rosenberg’s (News - Alert) feature, “Consumer Mobility, 'Customer BYOD,' and the UC Contact Center,” where he stated that, “Unified communications” (UC) may well make the contact center the biggest source of ROI for UC-enablement.” The full article is a very valuable resource for thinking about where multi-channel touch is going in contact centers.

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TMCnet Next Generation Communications Week in Review

- Alert) fiber optic data network. Second, Ankabut, which serves as UAE's National Research and Education Network educational hub, announced that it was using ALU to help expand its distance learning capabilities. And, the importance of SMEs adopting mobile strategies that properly accommodate the BYOD phenomena will be the subject of a roundtable discussion in the UAE this coming week hosted by ALU and FVC.

In other industry news:

TMCnet contributor Mini Swamy detailed how Altair Semiconductor’s achieving Verizon Wireless 4G LTE (News - Alert) Chipset certification was good news for Ecrio, a provider of real-time communications client software solutions for the mobile industry. It paves the way for the successful integration of Ecrio's (News - Alert) Mobile Communications Client Suite (MCCS) client software into Altair's global FourGee chipset portfolio. Mobile payments also shined with the announcement that EMVCo and the NFC Forum have entered into a collaboration to optimize the development and testing processes of Near Field Communication (NFC)-enabled mobile devices.

Industry trends were also in the news with the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) publication of its latest statistics on worldwide LTE deployments, and TMCnet Contributing Writer Frank Griffin’s roundup of some the latest on wireless service providers’ search for new revenue streams.

Features

Features this week included:

Service Providers

The move to extend distance learning was also the subject of an interesting feature by TMCnet Contributing Editor Susan Campbell about enabling the Classroom in the Cloud.

Enterprise

The move from rich communications to social communications will have profound impacts and as a recent piece by Alcatel-Lucent highlights.

Industries

Campbell as took a look at how Emergency Notification Service is enabling first responders to be more efficient and effective.

Weekend reading

Additional weekend reading to consider includes:

Alcatel-Lucent’s e-zine Enriching Communications, BYOD Accelerates Appetite for Personal Cloud The Alcatel-Lucent TechZine article, A Primer on Location Technologies in LTE Networks.

Plus, check out the Resource Center for access to whitepapers, videos and case studies. In particular the featured eBook, Innovating Innovation, and the whitepaper Getting Smart about Smart Cities - Enterprise Market Analysis are worth a read.

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Saturday, September 15, 2012

TechZone 360 Week in Review

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NextGuide Review

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"What's on TV tonight?" isn't quite as easy of a question as it used to be. With so many ways to watch our favorite shows and movies, just about anything can be on whenever (and wherever) we want -- it's just a matter of narrowing down the options.

Filtering through it all just got a whole lot easier with NextGuide, a dramatic reimagining of the classic TV guide. Instead of an unwieldy list of unwatchable channels, you get vivid programming squares that span many common sources of entertainment, like cable TV, iTunes, Netflix, and even Hulu Plus.

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New Kindle Fire, 7-Inch Fire HD Now Shipping from Amazon

The iPhone 5 isn't the only gadget ready to face anxious consumers this morning, as Amazon's new seven-inch Kindle Fire HD is in stock and ready to ship along with the refreshed Kindle Fire and the basic $69 model.

The Verge is reporting that Amazon is now shipping the 16GB model of its new seven-inch Kindle Fire HD for $199. The tablet currently shows as in stock and ready to ship, while the 32GB model for $249 is delayed until October 25.

Along with the latest HD model, the refreshed original Kindle Fire with twice the RAM, longer battery life and a faster processor is also shipping today at the newly-discounted price of only $159.

Last but not least, the basic Kindle is ready to ship for a mere $69, but if you don't fancy having to view ads, you can pony up another $20 to get the ad-free version, which is still a nice discount from its original $109 price.

If you missed out on getting an iPhone 5 preorder in before the shipping dates slipped to two weeks, maybe you can console yourself with a new Kindle -- and Amazon Prime members can have it as early as Saturday if they want to pay the extra $3.99 for one-day delivery.

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Lightning to USB Cable Sells Out, Apple Confirms No Freebies with iPhone 5

What sells out even faster than the new iPhone 5? Apparently, the new Lightning dock connector adapters, which are now showing a two-to-three week shipping delay as Apple confirms that new handset owners won't be getting a freebie.

AppleInsider is reporting that Apple's new Lightning to USB Cable, which sells for $19, has sold out within a half an hour of the iPhone 5 preorders lighting up on the company's online store.

While the $29 Lightning to 30-pin Adapter and the $39 Lightning to 30-pin Adapter (0.2 m) won't ship until next month, the cheaper Lightning to USB Cable has been mostly available since Wednesday's big announcement, but no more.

Meanwhile, The Next Web published a report earlier this morning claiming that Apple was including a free Lightning to 30-pin Adapter with each iPhone 5. Apple's online store even offered the option to buy an "additional" Lightning to 30-pin Adapter, but this appears to be in error.

"Following the publishing on this article, TNW reader Ryan Moores reached out to share clarification he received from one of Apple’s online sales representatives," the updated report reads. "According to the representative, it is 'an error' and it is 'being investigated at the moment.'"

Bummer, but at least we'll still get those swanky new EarPods as part of the package, right? Right?

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Hands on with the iPod touch and iPod nano

The iPhone 5 was certainly the big star of Apple's September 12 event (sorry, Dave Grohl...), but the recently neglected iPod touch got a major makeover as well, and the iPod nano got its video-playing mojo back.

The 4th-gen iPod touch was introduced in September 2010, more than 2 years ago, with the iPhone 4's A4 processor and Retina display. But when the iPhone 4S came along, the iPod touch languished without an upgrade. Now the new fifth-gen iPod touch brings the feature set back in line with the iPhone. Both have the 4-inch, 1136x640 screen. Both got dual-band 802.11n Wi-Fi (2.4GHz and 5GHz). Both got the super-cool panorama feature for the rear camera, plus a better front camera with 1.2-megapixel stills and 720p video, and both have the new Lightning connector.

The iPod touch still lags in a few specs (its rear camera is 5 megapixels, while iPhone 5's is 8, and the iPod touch gets the A5 chip while the iPhone 5 boasts an A6). But in a few ways we like it better than iPhone 5. It's incredibly thin and light, down to just 3.10 ounces and 0.24 inch thick

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Deals: MistoBox Brings Coffee to Your Doorstep

If you're used to having your nose to the grindstone, you probably also do a fair share of coffee bean grinding to get you through the day. There's no feeling worse than drinking the last drop of your cup of joe and realizing that there's no more waiting for you in the pot. MistoBox aims to alleviate this issue by delivering micro-roasted coffee samples to you every month. This product was built from the ground up on Kickstarter, and will give you the best coffee for grounding for four months for only $30 in our Deals tab.

There are tons of great tastes that are available from coffee makers around the USA. Unfortunately, you might not have the opportunity to sample some of the finest flavors available because you've never been exposed to it. MistoBox aims to solve that by bringing you a wide array of micro-roasts every month. Let your palette be overcome with the creations of the nation's best roasters. Best of all, it'll keep you awake so you can keep trying more.

The standard cost for four months of MistoBox's service is $60. Right now, you can get it for 50% off. Every month, you'll get enough beans for four full pots of coffee, along with information about the roaster, brewing methods, and tasting notes. All that will arrive on your doorstep for only $30. It's a deal worth staying up for.

720p FaceTime Will Require a Hefty Data Plan

Of all the subtle yet significant enhancements in iPhone 5, perhaps the sneakiness is FaceTime. Not only do we get a 720p camera for the first time on an iPhone, we also get the ability to make FaceTime calls wherever we are, thanks to iOS 6's untethering from Wi-Fi.

But with unlimited data plans quickly going the way of the Cube, this one-two punch of an upgrade is a bit of a double-edged sword. AT&T has already put limitations on it; the once-exclusive carrier is only letting users under its Mobile Share umbrella to use FaceTime over Cellular--thereby shutting out grandfathered unlimited users. Verizon doesn't seem to have a problem, but then again, it dropped its unlimited plans months ago; Sprint's cool with it even for unlimited customers, but there isn't much it won't do to get your business.

So why all the limitations? Because streaming live 720p video over 4G is going to eat up quite a bit of data. According to Verizon's handy data calculator, streaming 5 hours of 4G video per month (not taking quality into consideration) will consume more than 1.7 GB of your plan, at a rate of about 350 MB per hour (using the 3G iPhone 4S, that number drops to about 250 MB). But since FaceTime is sending and receiving video--and we're talking HD--those estimates might actually be a bit conservative.

What's unclear is whether Apple has taken steps to save us from ourselves. While FaceTime over Wi-Fi will use every bit of the camera's resolution, we're not sure if Apple will limit the picture quality when using a cellular network. But we haven't heard any grumblings about that, and based on the carriers' response, it appears as though it won't. Obviously signal strength is a mitigating factor, but iPhone 5 users shouldn't experience much lag over 4G; over 3G, iPhone 4S users might struggle some, even with its VGA camera.

We might not like it, but there's a reason AT&T and Verizon are scrambling to make sure you're paying for FaceTime over Cellular. But it's not the strength of their networks they're worried about--it's their bottom line.

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Free App Friday: UpTo

I've always been an iCal power user, though I have rued the amount of effort it takes to try to add links to properly curated calendars for things like sports events of television shows. I'd love to be able to just subscribe to a feed that tells me when the Giants are playing a home game, or when New Girl premieres on Fox, without having to add every event manually.

Well, UpTo helps with this. It's a free iPhone app that displays a social stream of events, whether it's your friends' or your favorite baseball team. It collects event data from Facebook, or your friends who have opted in to the UpTo service, as well as your Google and Outlook calendars. You can also choose from a wide variety of "event streams", which are calendars for things like sports, television, movies, and technology. It also lets you manually add events, in case you decide to make the app your primary event calendar. If you've usually got a pretty packed schedule, or like to be in the know about the latest happenings around you, you'll probably want to check out this app for your own sake.

Download UpTo for iPhone.

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The 10 Hottest Apple News Stories, The Week of August 14

Life dot com -- the iPhone 5 is our story of the week, just like the whole internet. So in case you weren't glued to the keynote and you haven't followed our regular stream of updates, here's how it went down and here's what you need to know.

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Riverbed Technology Improves IT Infrastructure Performance

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New York Stock Exchange Settles with SEC on Allegation of Improper Distribution of Market Data

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Traffic Jams Cause Varying Stress Levels in India: IBM Study

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CallPlus Group Deploys Acme Packer SBC in VoIP Network

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California About to Protect VoIP from Being Regulated

Walking through the iPhone 5 HD Voice Headaches

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Savvis To Provide Enterprise Cloud Managed Dual Hosting For Singapore Exchange

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Cal-Berkeley, Eolas Launch Patent Lawsuit Against Facebook and Wal-Mart

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