Financial services firm readies mobile cost-sharing model: Wi-Fi attacker warning

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	Financial services firm readies mobile cost-sharing model At the Mobile Explosion conference this week in San Diego, telecom managers struggled with the issue of how to strike the appropriate balance between responsibly securing and managing their mobility environments while still keeping their user bases happy. This is of particular concern as Generation Y enters the workplace accustomed to using whatever devices and communications methods suit their fancy, said experts speaking about the current enterprise mobile landscape. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Rapid Replication for Virtual Servers What's the connection between virtualization and acceleration? It's deeper than you might think. See how these two hot technologies complement each other to consolidate servers, enhance DR and simplify the IT infrastructure. Learn more. In this Issue How Wi-Fi attackers are poisoning Web browsers Symbian OS now fully open source Alcatel-Lucent offers way to increase mobile capacity White House, mobile carriers launch health texting campaign Smartphone shipments hit new record in fourth quarter Cisco adding iPhone app for voice-over-Wi-Fi Google rolls out admin tools for mobile Apps users Will iPad Invade Enterprise as Quickly as iPhone Did? 50 smartphone blogs: A whirlwind tour of iPhone, Android and BlackBerry sites Sprint's first WiMax smartphone called Supersonic, runs Android, say reports Huawei plans to launch multiple Android devices Verizon tops wireless customer care again in survey T-Mobile USA parent company seeks spinoff or IPO, report says Wireless VoIP benefits being frustrated in healthcare: study WHITE PAPER: HP WAN Design – Don't Buy More than You Need This Gartner research note examines the methodology organizations should employ when designing a WAN. It offers advice on how to ensure that important applications are networked with sufficient performance and that there is not an "overspend" on less important applications and provides guidance on meeting unique network needs. Read Now. How Wi-Fi attackers are poisoning Web browsers Public Wi-Fi networks such as those in coffee shops and airports present a bigger security threat than ever to computer users because attackers can intercede over wireless to "poison" users' browser caches in order to present fake Web pages or even steal data at a later time. That's according to security researcher Mike Kershaw, developer of the Kismet wireless network detector and intrusion-detection system, who spoke at the Black Hat conference. Read More Symbian OS now fully open source Access offered to mobile platform four months ahead of targeted release date Read More Alcatel-Lucent offers way to increase mobile capacity A new product from Alcatel-Lucent aims to let mobile operators serve more customers using their existing radio spectrum, by offering faster mobile broadband services such as HSPA and LTE on frequencies currently reserved for GSM. Using software-defined radio technology, it will simultaneously support multiple mobile network technologies on one frequency, enabling operators to continue to serve customers with older phones. Read More White House, mobile carriers launch health texting campaign The White House and major mobile carriers have launched a text-messaging campaign aimed at improving the health of babies in the U.S. Read More WEBCAST: HP Metzler: Virtualization and the Network Manager The networks manager's role has changed significantly over the years. This Webcast highlights survey results of 460 IT pros and their experiences with network management. Learn how network automation is helping to address the unique challenges of both physical and virtual environments. Learn more Smartphone shipments hit new record in fourth quarter Smartphone devices continued to ship at record levels in last year's fourth quarter, reaching 54.5 million, or 39% more than last year. Read More Cisco adding iPhone app for voice-over-Wi-Fi Cisco Systems Inc. plans to add voice-over-Wi-Fi capabilities to its existing iPhone app by April, part of a continuing effort to expand its unified communications technology into the mobile space. Read More Google rolls out admin tools for mobile Apps users Google has rolled out a new set of management tools for its Enterprise Google Apps customers that give administrators significant control over mobile devices linked to their accounts. Read More Will iPad Invade Enterprise as Quickly as iPhone Did? An enterprise technology sales veteran predicts business users will walk right into work with the iPad before long -- and that CIOs better prepare. Read More WHITE PAPER: Microsoft Maximizing Efficiencies with Unified Communications How exactly can you maximize efficiencies and cut costs out of IT? We are right in the middle of the New Efficiency Launch featuring Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7 and Exchange Server 2010. Click here to find out how! Learn More Now 50 smartphone blogs: A whirlwind tour of iPhone, Android and BlackBerry sites There's quite a collection of good and colorful blogs that track iPhones, Android devices, BlackBerries and other smartphones and no shortage of overlapping coverage among them. Here's a spin through 50 of these blogs. Read More Sprint's first WiMax smartphone called Supersonic, runs Android, say reports Reports and a photo of Sprint Nextel Inc.'s first WiMax smartphone, code-named Supersonic, have surfaced, but the company has not yet confirmed the device. Read More Huawei plans to launch multiple Android devices Huawei is planning to launch a number of Android-based devices, including smartphones and "home-use Internet devices" at Mobile World Congress, it said on Friday. Read More Verizon tops wireless customer care again in survey For wireless customer care, Verizon Wireless came out on top for the second consecutive time in a J.D. Power and Associates semi-annual survey of 9,500 customers who contacted their carrier in the last six months of 2009. Read More T-Mobile USA parent company seeks spinoff or IPO, report says The German parent of T-Mobile USA is exploring a spinoff of the U.S. unit, or an initial public offering (IPO), according to unnamed sources in a report. Read More Wireless VoIP benefits being frustrated in healthcare: study Expected benefits from wireless VoIP and unified communications in healthcare can be subverted with a comprehensive view of the needed infrastructure and, more importantly, of what nurses and doctors actually need to do their jobs at the patient's bedside. Read More
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