---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20170328205223.GA28282@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:52:23 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: CenturyLink Has Its Head in the Clouds The telecommunications leader could win the hearts of more enterprise customers with its new cloud-based orchestration platform. By Steve Symington If there's one thing that's certain in the world of technology, it's change. And so it goes for telecommunications giant CenturyLink, which continues to foster its strategic revenue streams to offset declines in its legacy businesses. Of course, CenturyLink also has its hands full ensuring its impending acquisition of Level 3 Communications closes as planned later this year. But in the meantime, one intriguing strategic growth opportunity for CenturyLink lies with its budding status as an IT services and enterprise cloud solutions provider. https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/03/14/centurylink-has-its-head-in-the-clouds.aspx -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <DB94B12B-0405-4AFD-95EE-3DC6AC01AEF8@roscom.com> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 21:15:44 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: A tour of iOS 10.3: Checking out APFS, the Settings app, and other tweaks A tour of iOS 10.3: Checking out APFS, the Settings app, and other tweaks Apple has just released iOS 10.3 to the general public, an update which is likely to be the last major release of iOS 10; at this point in the year, work usually begins in earnest on the next major release of iOS, which will be revealed at WWDC in June. The update is available for everything that runs iOS 10: the iPhone 5 and newer, the fourth-generation iPad and newer, the iPad Mini 2 and newer, both iPad Pros, and the sixth-generation iPod Touch. https://arstechnica.com/apple/2017/03/a-tour-of-ios-10-3-checking-out-apfs-the-settings-app-and-other-tweaks/ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <93CE8745-E27E-4093-B3D6-3E331EAC7309@roscom.com> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 21:12:35 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Lengthy iOS 10.3 install time likely due to conversion to new Apple File System Lengthy iOS 10.3 install time likely due to conversion to new Apple File System By Mike Wuerthele Early adopters of the full iOS 10.3 release are seeing lengthy install processes, with multiple device reboots - probably as a result of the shift to Apple's new APFS. After quick downloads of 600 megabytes and above, early installs witnessed by AppleInsider are seeing install times greater than 20 minutes on several iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus units, with a 12.9-inch iPad Pro taking 27 minutes, and an iPad Air 2 taking about 48 minutes. http://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/17/03/27/lengthy-ios-103-install-time-likely-due-to-conversion-to-new-apple-file-system ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20170328205747.GA28479@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:57:47 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Why AT&T Probably Will Get to Buy Time Warner After All By Aaron Pressman President Donald Trump repeatedly singled out AT&T's deal to buy Time Warner during the campaign as the kind of combination he wouldn't allow as president. But after the Trump administration this week picked a longtime antitrust lawyer, Makan Delrahim, to head the Justice Department office that reviews mergers, the threats to block AT&T appear ever more likely to be another campaign trail promise that won't be fulfilled. http://fortune.com/2017/03/28/att-time-warner-trump-2/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Wed, 29 Mar 2017