Why Apple's IOS8 Operating System Should Excite Users and Developers

Apple's new iOS8 operating system was recently revealed at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco.

While iOS8 may not be a game changer it certainly offers many new features for business use and should excite developers wishing to share and create applications within the new framework.

On the business front, Apple has focused on stronger security. Data protection will be expanded to more applications to enable finer control over such items as mail encryption.

The expanded data protection will include basically all pertinent apps as well as user credentials. These credentials will be protected by a pass code until after a device is unlocked following a reboot.

Apple says it is unleashing a variety of enhanced productivity tools with iOS8. Inbox mail management should be easier as a quick left or right swipe enables a user to mark messages as read or unread or flag them for follow-up.

The new calendar view enables you to see your colleague's availability to schedule a meeting, easing the effort of finding a time convenient for all parties.

Work execution will be easier with iCould Drive. Apple touts you will be able to work on any file anywhere. This will include presentations, PDFs, images and more. This will work right from the iCloud on any device you use, whether it's a MAC or PC.

Need access to corporate documents? Third party document apps can be used to access corporate file servers so you can get to the document you need right from the app you want to edit it in. Apple promises you will be able to transfer files to and from a MAC device even without an Internet connection.

Enhanced connectivity should be a great benefit. Apple says users will be able to start an email on one device and seamlessly continue it on another. iPhone users will be able to answer phone calls on their MAC or iPAD and send SMS messages from any of them.

Those who use photos will enjoy the ability to edit and organize every photo one takes on all your devices though the iCould photo library.

Messaging too will have new features. You can add your own voice into a text message and send a video of what you see as you are seeing it.

Should you wish to workout with colleagues, the health and fitness apps will utilize an easy to read dashboard to share communication with friends, your trainer and even your doctor.

"Spotlight" will serve as a type of answer search engine. It will provide information from Wikipedia and offer trending news and more.

IT departments will have better data and device management tools. iOS8 has more ways to manage information securely without burdening employees with complex rules and work personas. IT staff can now push iBooks, ePub and PDF documents automatically to user devices using mobile device management, MDM, tools. Users should have access to what they need when they need it.

These new tools will give developers deeper access and even more to work with. This will include new keyboard options and still more ways to share content.

Developers will find the ability to create and utilize apps that communicate with other an exciting enticement as Apple pushes the boundaries with this new innovation.

By Marc Arbesman

How Firms Can Participate In Ensuring a Free and Fair Market

As the world becomes a business hub, firms are making transactions globally. There is a tremendous increase in trade transactions all over the world. The financial exchange market has transformed over the years with the use of technology to ease the way of doing business. Beneath this increased profitability, it is becoming imperative for trade surveillance system to be enhanced to deal with any eventualities. The organization needs to empower and give the capacity to oversight department to monitor the trades through regulations and the abusive use of technology. Some of the ways the organization can increase the effective trade market surveillance in order to curb unfair trade practices using market abuse technology are listed below.

- With tough laws and regulations, the organizations need to ensure that employees conduct pre -trade market surveillance to ensure that transactions are conducted within the law to prevent any breach of policies that may occur in the process. This will boost investor trust leading to business profitability.

- With the post - surveillance, it monitors the transactions already conducted in companies to ensure they were done correctly following the laid down rules and regulation. This creates a market that is controlled and guiding principles are followed to the latter.

- Business is created with the core mandate of making profit, with an effective market security system installed in the organization structure; the company can know the strength and weakness which need to be addressed for effective market observation in the business trading.

- A good detection will enable a host company to notice any rogue under-dealings and manipulations of activities happening during trading activities.

- The business, through the use of advanced technology, can install a system with a standardized threshold which will be triggered whenever a rogue activity is undertaken in the organization.
- Management should frequently and timely analyse trade activities, reports and monitor the trading patterns to be able to know what is being undertaken by the employees of the organization. The behaviour of the workers should be monitored.

- Investigate, analyse and resolve promptly the cancelled trades in good time to keep the reputation of the organization intact.

- Before traders are able to invest their money, the organization should ensure that the investor has the needed amount which reaches the threshold, and it does not surpass the trading limit. This will make sure that the client does not pay less or more during the trade process.

In conclusion, it is important that the organization managers enlighten the workers about the benefits of using market abuse technology to increase trade surveillance and at the same time the firm should motivate employees to be able to reduce cases of abuse of technology during trade activities.

By Pankaj Pk Sharma

Microsoft Word: Changing Your Document View

I love looking at an online map and having the choice of a traditional view or a satellite one. It is easier for me to find my route on a traditional view, but I also have the ability to see what the building I am looking for and the area around it actually looks like.

Have you used different views in Microsoft Word? Just like online maps, Word has more than one option when it comes to viewing a document.

Microsoft Word provides us with five different ways to view our documents. The default one is called 'Print Layout.' This shows how the text will look on each printed page and is invaluable when you are getting ready to print. This is, however, one of the last steps of word processing. The first step is to get all your ideas onto the document. Type all your text before you worry about how it looks on the page.

I recommend using 'Draft' or 'Outline' for the early stages of document creation. You will be able to see more text on your screen and you won't get side tracked by page elements like images, headers, or footers.

To change to one of these views, go to the View ribbon and choose a command in the Document Views group, or go to the right side of the status bar. Your status bar runs along the bottom of your screen. The right side of it may contain information like the page you are on, or how many words your document contains. The right side of it has the View buttons and the Zoom bar. If you hover your mouse above the buttons, a screen tip will appear to tell you the name of each view. You can also add the view buttons to your Quick Access Tool bar or use keyboard shortcuts, such as:

Alt + Ctrl + p - Pint Layout view.

Alt + Ctrl + o - Outline view.

Alt + Ctrl + n - Draft view. The Draft view used to be called the Normal view, hence the use of the letter 'n.'

Open a document and change to the Draft view.

To the left of your document you will see the style area. This does exactly what it suggests; it shows you the paragraph style that has been attached to each paragraph. If you want to change the style, double-click on the name of the current style to open the Style dialog box. From here you can select a different style or modify the existing one.

Applying a style to a paragraph is not really formatting. Once you have typed all your text and are ready to look at how it will present itself on each page, you may want to modify how the styles look. This would be formatting.

TIP: The width of the style area can be changed in the Word options.

1. File tab, Options

2. Advanced, Display group

3. Style area width in Draft and Outline views

4. Adjust the size

5. OK

If you are working with multiple heading levels, you may prefer to work in the Outline view. This also has the style area on the left, but has the added bonus of allowing you to collapse and expand the heading levels, so the text under each heading is hidden.

The Outline view allows you to easily rearrange your document by simply dragging paragraphs and headings to a new location in the document.

Choose the correct view to match your document creation needs.

Use the Print Layout view when you want to see what your document will look like when it is printed. You will see all the page elements like headers, footers and graphics.

Use the Draft View when you are concentrating on the text of a document. It will show you a single page with simple text format only. This not only helps you avoid being sidetracked by graphics and other page elements, it also lets you view more text on one screen.

As with anything new, using a different view may take a little while to get used to. Don't let this deter you. Saving the Print Layout view until you have created your text will help you work smart not hard.

Reen Rose is an empowerment expert who believes in aiding businesses of all sizes, by helping individuals and teams acquire the skills they need to be happy and successful in their work. She is an experienced Microsoft Certified Trainer, Microsoft Office Specialist Master and a Myers Briggs certified practitioner.

By Reen Rose