Apple to delay AirPods shipments

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If you’ve been waiting for Apple’s AirPod wireless headphones to go on sale, you’re going to have to wait a little longer. Apple says that it is not ready and will need “a little more time.”

Apple Watch Nike+ arrives this Friday, October 28

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Apple and Nike today announced Apple Watch Nike+ will be available on Friday, October 28. 

Apple Watch Nike+ combines all of the unique features of Apple Watch Series 2 with the new Nike+ Run Club app for unrivaled motivation to go for a run, guidance from the world’s best coaches and athletes and coaching plans that adapt to your unique schedule and progress.

GoDaddy Announces Email Encryption And Email Archiving Features For Office 365 Users

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GoDaddy, the world's largest technology provider dedicated to small businesses, today announced the availability of two new features, Email Archiving and Email Encryption, for Office 365 users. 

The new features, available as add-on services for all GoDaddy Office 365 customers, will make it easier for small business owners to transmit, store and protect valuable data about their business and customers, and simpler for those operating in regulated industries to remain compliant.

GoDaddy Acquires ManageWP

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GoDaddy, the world's largest cloud platform dedicated to small, independent ventures, announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire ManageWP, the leading WordPress site management tool.

ManageWP enables web designers and developers to manage multiple WordPress sites from a single dashboard, no matter where they are hosted.

Huawei Release CloudFAN Access Network Solution

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Huawei has announced the CloudFAN access network solution at the Broadband World Forum 2016 held in London. Huawei also showcased its existing large-capacity distributed Optical Line Terminal (OLT) which supports open protocol and works with the network controller to achieve the smooth evolution of CloudFAN. 

To implement the all cloud strategy, the operator’s network needs to migrate to a DC-Centric architecture, where network functions and services will all run on the cloud.

Huawei Certified as GSMA Mobile Connect Vendor

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Huawei has been certified as a ‘Mobile Connect Vendor’ for its Dynamic Subscriber Profile (DSP) product by GSMA. Huawei's cutting-edge DSP has successfully passed rigorous testing and is now listed on GSMA's official website as a Mobile Connect-compliant product. 

With a Mobile Connect-compliant DSP from Huawei, mobile network operators can now extend their portfolios to include user authentication.

AWS US East (Ohio) Region now Open

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As part of Amazon ongoing plan to expand the AWS footprint, amazon has announced their new US East (Ohio) Region which is now available. 

 In conjunction with the existing US East (Northern Virginia) Region, AWS customers in the Eastern part of the United States have fast, low-latency access to the suite of AWS infrastructure services.

The Details

The new AWS Ohio Region supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and related services including Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, NAT Gateway, Spot Instances, and Dedicated Hosts.

Huawei Launches the First 25G DOCSIS Prototype

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 Huawei launched the industry's first DOCSIS prototype at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2016 in Philadelphia, USA. This prototype supports a 3 GHz spectrum and a 25 Gbps downstream rate. It also represents a new milestone for coaxial cable technologies and was the center of attention at the Expo. 

With the arrival of the Gigabit era, ultra-bandwidth technologies based on multi-media are constantly being innovated, supporting higher and higher access rates. At present, the widely deployed DOCSIS 3.0 technology supports a maximum of 32 channels and a 1.6 Gbps sharable downstream bandwidth. 

Samsung Produces First Application Processor for Wearable Devices Built on 14-Nanometer FinFET Technology

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Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology has announced that it has begun mass production of the Exynos 7 Dual 7270. It is the first mobile application processor (AP) in the industry designed specifically for wearable devices with 14-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology. It is also the first in its class to feature full connectivity and LTE modem integration.

Over a decade ago, Samsung has been leading the industry in expanding the adoption of 14nm technology for a wide variety of products from premium smartphones to entry-level mobile devices.

With the Exynos 7270, the company also introduces the benefits of this cutting-edge technology to wearables.

Facebook rolls out Workplace App

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Facebook has been testing a version of Facebook for the workplace within its organisation and a with a few other organizations over a year ago.

Facebook said that over 1,000 organizations around the world use Workplace (formerly known as Facebook at Work). People have created nearly 100,000 groups and the top five countries using Workplace are India, the US, Norway, UK and France.

Larry Ellison Announces Oracle Database 12c Release 2 on Cloud

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Larry Ellison announced Oracle Database 12c Release 2, the heart of Oracle’s Platform as a Service (PaaS).

Oracle’s new database is being made available in the Cloud first, providing businesses of all sizes with access to the world’s fastest, most scalable and reliable database technology in a cost-effective and flexible cloud environment.