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CEO Tim Cook and other top Apple executives today unveiled a larger tablet dubbed the iPad Pro, a revamped Apple TV and near the tail of a two-hour-long event, new iPhones.

Apple has let customers buy unlocked, unsubsidized iPhones for several years, but the company announced today that it has a new premium option. The new iPhone Upgrade plan includes annual upgrades and AppleCare+, the company’s extended warranty program.

New iPad, iPhones, Apple TV, and more

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As expected, today's Apple event was chock-full of new products and interesting surprises. From brand new iPhones to a potentially game-changing Apple TV, there's no question that Apple is still operating at full throttle. Here is a rundown of Apple's most important announcements from the company's special event.

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In a surprise move, Microsoft sent a pair of representatives to Apple's big press event in San Francisco Wednesday morning to demonstrate new features in Office for iOS that are tailored for the new iPad Pro. 

The New England Patriots Spygate scandal isn’t the only foible that’s resurfacing after years in dormancy. Two blogs this week posted amusing stories about a Cisco design flaw from 2013 that, if one isn’t careful, could take down the network.

Enterprise architects (sometimes referred to as IT architects or business architects) are responsible for creating, maintaining and evolving the enterprise architecture framework so its aligned with and supports an organization's business strategy.

After launching a larger iPhone 5 Plus last year that mimicked phablets like the Lumia 1520, Apple has taken another page from Microsoft’s playbook with the Apple iPad Pro—which now includes a Surface-like keyboard and stylus.

A key theme at this year's VMworld conference was the virtualization of the data center, and specifically the network.

Apple’s new iPhones don’t look a whole lot different from last year’s models, but the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus have a next-generation multi-touch display that Cupertino expects will change the way you use a touchscreen.

Microsoft yesterday announced a partnership with Dell that will let the latter sell the Surface Pro tablet-slash-notebook, a recognition that the device needs more support and service than Microsoft can provide to break into the enterprise market, analysts argued.

A cyberespionage group of Russian origin that targets governmental, diplomatic, military, educational and research organizations is hijacking satellite-based Internet connections in order to hide their servers from security researchers and law enforcement agencies.

Apple is re-entering the living room with the 2015 Apple TV, a new set-top box that streams video, plays games, and uses Siri to answer your every entertainment whim.

Apple Watch is looking better than ever, and now it will work better too, thanks to the release of its version 2 operating system next week.

We know it's hard to keep track of all the great technology conferences you might want to attend in any given month, quarter or year.

The iPad Pro, revealed during Wednesday’s Apple event, is the most powerful iOS device ever made, and “the biggest iPad news since the iPad,” Tim Cook said from the stage. The iPad Pro also has two new accessories: the Smart Keyboard and Apple Pencil.

The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is, for all practical purposes, out of numbers. Until IPv6 displaces IPv4 as the dominant protocol over the coming decade, IP network operators will have to depend on the IPv4 market to obtain their IP addresses.

At the end of this month this Network World blog will retire, so we’d like to dedicate part of the remaining editions to look back over the past 15 years- and look forward to the evolution of real time communications.

It's showtime, folks. Today is undoubtedly Apple's biggest event of the year. Not only is Apple planning to introduce two new iPhone models, but we'll also be seeing new iPad models and an arguably game-changing Apple TV.

A smartwatch won't be noticed unless it passes the watch test – it must first look, feel, and act like a real watch while reinforcing the wearer's style and identity. Only after meeting this watch test can smartwatch makers hope that consumers will start loading apps on their wrist. Motorola has done a convincing job designing a smartwatch that passes the watch test while also allowing customers to customize the watch to their preferences.  

Over two months after Italian surveillance software maker Hacking Team had its internal data leaked by hackers, vendors are apparently still fixing zero-day exploits from the company's arsenal.

Sometimes I despair a little at how much time and effort enterprises take to perform tasks that really should be considered simple housekeeping. One would have thought that, in this day and age with disruption and turmoil facing many organizations, that we would have reached a place where the most basic tasks of IT management were no longer necessary.

This picture and the amusing headline above have circulated before but come to us this morning courtesy of the Twitter account ClassicPics (@History_Pics).

17 Real Big Sci/Tech projects

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Some science/technology is big news like the discovery of a new gene – but sometimes its just big, like the Saturn V rocket of the Apollo era. Here we take a look at pictures of some recent BIG science and technology topics like a cool new wind turbine, a black hole discovery and more. Have fun:

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Blocking web-based ads continues to be a battleground, as YouTube has found a way to get around Adblock Plus, while at the same time the company behind the popular advertising blocker has launched a mobile version.

The recent New York Times piece about Amazon's 'punishing' and 'bruising' workplace has generated heated conversation about culture and values in Silicon Valley and the IT industry as a whole. But all the outrage over the exposé is missing some crucial data points in the discussion about culture.