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Microsoft's mobile shakeup: Will it unleash Windows Phone? | AT&T adds Wi-Fi hot zone to relieve Times Square congestion

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Cisco powers up router, switches for smart grids
Cisco this week is unveiling a switch and a router designed to help utilities construct IP-based infrastructures for power delivery, monitoring and control. Read More


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Troubleshooting Application Problems
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Microsoft's mobile shakeup: Will it unleash Windows Phone?
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Tuesday announced some major changes in the company's entertainment and mobile device businesses. Veteran Robbie Balch, who oversaw a combined group, is retiring and won't be replaced. Read More

AT&T adds Wi-Fi hot zone to relieve Times Square congestion
Months after admitting to excessive wireless congestion in Manhattan for its iPhone and other wireless customers, AT&T announced the launch of a pilot Wi-Fi hot zone in Times Square. Read More

Google sued over Wi-Fi sniffing
Galaxy Internet Services, an ISP for homes and businesses in Massachusetts, has filed a class-action lawsuit against Google over the search company's admitted blunder that it sniffed and stored data from Wi-Fi networks. Read More

10 Must-Have Android Apps for Business
Whether you're running the next great business pitch from your phone or you just need to jot down ideas and edit documents on the go, we have you covered. Read More


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Addressing Interference on Wireless Networks
Learn about the challenge of interference in a shared spectrum, the limitations of standard Wi-Fi chip design, and about Cisco® CleanAir technology. This ASIC-based solution empowers users to proactively managing Wi-Fi networks to support mission-critical and latency-sensitive applications . Read More

Businesses lag in moving away from IE6 and its vulnerabilities, study says
Microsoft's Internet Explorer continues to dominate corporate browser use more so than it does private use, with its nearest rival, Mozilla's Firefox, lagging far behind with one in seven businesses opting for it, according to data collected by Internet-based security service Zscaler. Read More

McAfee to acquire Trust Digital to further mobile security
McAfee Tuesday said it's signed an agreement to acquire privately held Trust Digital as part of its strategy to expand into the mobile security arena, the enterprise sector in particular. The acquisition price for Trust Digital was not disclosed. Read More

Network management vendor tracks infrastructure performance
Network Instruments works to provide customers with the much-sought-after 'single pane of glass' by combining network performance data with infrastructure health and availability metrics. Read More

The 10 Best Hacks of 2010 (So Far)
In honor of Geek Pride Day, Towel Day, and the Glorious 25th of May, here are ten of our most favorite hacks featured in Geek Tech in the last five months, running the gambit from phone, car, and CPU mods. Read on for some great moments in geek! Read More


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Researchers warn of "Typhoid Adware" at Internet cafes
It's no secret that you take some security chances when surfacing the Web at WiFi hotspots at Internet cafes, but University of Calgary researchers have shed light on a new potential threat you might not have considered: Adware that shows up on your computer even though it is actually running on the computer of someone sharing the unencrypted network. Read More

Google: $54 billion impact of search and search ads in US
Google's search service and search advertising products generated an estimated US$54 billion for U.S. businesses, Web site publishers and nonprofit groups in 2009, according to a study the company has released. Read More

Microsoft uses Apache License for open source Outlook tools
Microsoft has released two open source tools on CodePlex that let developers more easily create apps for Outlook PST files. Those tools are not only open source, they've been released under the Apache License (instead of one of Microsoft's own two open source licenses). The tools follow Microsoft's February release of full documentation for its Outlook 2010 .PST files. Read More

World's fastest muni net wins award
NEW YORK -- The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) has named Suwon, South Korea, as the 2010 Intelligent Community of the Year. Suwon has built the world's fastest, large municipal network, improving connection speeds from an already impressive 32M to 1Gbps. Read More

Wolfram|Alpha revisited and no longer boring
Almost one year ago I wrote about Wolfram|Alpha, a Web service offered by Wolfram Research, which the company describes as a "computational knowledge engine". Read More



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