Flying high, Apple readies Watch to ship in April

Get ready for the 24-hour laptop: Battery life hits new highs All signs point to the demise of Microsoft's Surface tablet

InfoWorld Technology: Hardware January 29, 2015 Flying high, Apple readies Watch to ship in April The Apple Watch will ship in April, CEO Tim Cook said on Tuesday, ending speculation about when Apple will release its first new category of product in more than four years. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Get ready for the 24-hour laptop: Battery life hits new highs 2. All signs point to the demise of Microsoft's Surface tablet 3. From bad to worse: Down the rabbit hole of bad network design 4. InfoWorld's 2015 Technology of the Year Award winners White Paper: BMC Software An Insightful Approach to Optimize Mainframe MLC Spend This paper, “An Insightful Approach to Optimizing Mainframe MLC Costs,” discusses how you can penetrate the complexity of IBM mainframe MLC products and the MLC price model to gain insight into the MLC cost drivers and leverage that insight to optimize MLC spend. LEARN MORE Get ready for the 24-hour laptop: Battery life hits new highs A handful of new systems are promising more than 15 hours' battery life on a single charge, or 20 hours with an optional second battery installed. The days of plugging in on the road are almost over, at least for short business trips. READ MORE All signs point to the demise of Microsoft's Surface tablet Microsoft seems to be within a whisker of calling it quits on its failed experiment with the Surface tablet. One tip-off that the Surface 2 line will be dead-ended is Microsoft not offering an upgrade to Windows 10 for either that tablet or its predecessor.READ MORE From bad to worse: Down the rabbit hole of bad network design A series of cascading design woes threatens to overwhelm what should be a simple setup for a small-business network. READ MORE InfoWorld's 2015 Technology of the Year Award winners In this year's crop of 32 favorites, you'll find plenty of developer tools, application and cloud platforms, databases and big data tools, mobile devices and apps, dazzling data center hardware, the best Windows laptop ever, and more. READ MORE White Paper: Attachmate Six Ways To Re-Think Your File Movement Strategies As organizations re-think their file movement strategies, they need better visibility over files and file movements, better management of file access, and better governance of file actions. LEARN MORE DAILY NEWS, DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX FIRST THING Start your workday with Today's Headlines: First Look, and find out what the tech world will be talking about all day. Subscribe now!