Apple and IBM forge global partnership to transform enterprise mobility

Apple and IBM announced an exclusive partnership that teams the market-leading strengths of each company to transform enterprise mobility through a new class of business apps—bringing IBM’s big data and analytics capabilities to iPhone and iPad. The groundbreaking partnership brings together Apples' expertise in mobile devices and IBM's strength in cloud systems as well as enterprise deployment. 

The landmark partnership aims to redefine the way work will get done, address key industry mobility challenges and spark true mobile-led business change—grounded in four core capabilities:

• a new class of more than 100 industry-specific enterprise solutions including native apps, developed exclusively from the ground up, for iPhone and iPad;

• unique IBM cloud services optimized for iOS, including device management, security, analytics and mobile integration;

• new AppleCare service and support offering tailored to the needs of the enterprise;  and  

• new packaged offerings from IBM for device activation, supply and management.

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Next gen Norton products to go beyond antivirus

Symantec released a sneak peek at upcoming offerings Norton Security and Norton Security with Backup. As cybercriminals become more devious and the attacks they launch become more sophisticated, Symantec is overhauling its consumer product portfolio to offer faster performance and stronger, defense-in-depth protection for people and their information as they use Android, Windows, Mac and iOS devices. The pre-release software is now available for free download from the Norton beta website.

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TELUS Health opens its doors to Innovation Centre in Toronto to reveal services and products

TELUS Health opened its doors to its Innovation Centre in Toronto for a look inside a few specific health services and products. The event kick-started with remarks from Paul Lepage in a speech to tell us why TELUS is in health and how we can demonstrate the power of health through technology. Taking a holistic view to the health industry, TELUS Health has made almost a billion dollar investment to date and is on a path to help improve patient care by removing current barriers and creating a seamless flow of information between all members of the healthcare continuum – from hospitals to family doctors, from pharmacists to patients. 

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Apple patents way to build all-glass iOS devices, displays and TVs

Aside from their huge investment in Sapphire manufacturing, Apple's reportedly patented a way to build-all-glass devices including iOS phones and tablets, displays and TVs. More precisely, Apple was  granted a U.S. patent covering a method of fusing glass structures together to encapsulate the internal circuitry of an iOS device, and that of larger electronics like monitors and televisions.

Why glass? Well, really, why not? The iPhone 4 and 4s were mostly glass and while that design was opening to cracking and shattering when dropped, it was nonetheless quite a breakthrough and glass is better for all those radios after all. 

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