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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

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Forrester Now Says It's Too Late for a Windows Tablet
Just last month a survey from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) found that 42 percent of U.S. consumers and 44 percent of Chinese users said they wanted a Windows tablet, far beyond that of any other tablet out there, including iPad. I've seen criticism of the research in other places, ranging from challenging the methodology to just plain not believing the findings. Now it seems Forrester can add... Read More


WHITE PAPER: i365

Trusted Data Assurance in the Cloud
Cloud-based services are here to stay. Cloud services are even more attractive for companies who are being hit with the high cost of meeting compliance requirements - especially for small and mid-size companies that have shrinking or no information security budget. Read now!

WHITE PAPER: Trend Micro

Before Taking the Cloud Plunge
Security and privacy are critical concerns for those considering cloud adoption. The differences between SaaS, PaaS and IaaS are significant and require careful due diligence. This paper will help you do the homework necessary to compare security practices and determine which model is right for your organization. Read More

iPhone 5 rumor roll-up for the week ending Nov. 25
The iOSsphere is now very sure iPhone 5 will have a 4-inch display. They're just not sure who is building it. Read More

BlackBerry Mobile Fusion: What to Know About the Android Management Software
BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) today announced a brand new set of enterprise mobility tools, called BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, which are designed to help IT manage not just BlackBerry smartphones and tablets, but mobile devices running Apple's iOS and Google's Android OS, via a single, Web-based interface from RIM. Read More

iPhone self-combusts over Australian skies
Regional Express (Rex), an Australian airline, has reported extinguishing a passenger's Apple iPhone after it started glowing red and emitting dense smoke. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc.

A New Look at Payment Security
Akamai Edge Tokenization takes much of the cost and complexity out of eCommerce. By tokenizing critical payment data before it reaches your PCI-regulated infrastructure, Akamai relieves your organization from what experts consider the most important and challenging PCI requirement. Read more

Researchers address dirty little secret of mobile phones in Africa
While it's well known that many developing countries are bypassing the setup of major wired telecom infrastructure and going straight to mobile networks, it's less commonly known that a huge obstacle to using these wireless networks is a lack of access to the power grid by end users. Read More

Optimizing Wi-Fi Performance: Ruckus Wireless' ChannelFly
You might think that, what, with all of the capacity-enhancing innovations in wireless over the past few years, like 802.11n and MIMO, that have improved raw throughput from a megabit or two to 300, 450, and even 600 Mbps, there really wouldn't be much need for cleverness when it comes to boosting performance or capacity further. You'd be, of course, wrong to assume this, and for a number of reasons.... Read More

WatchGuard launches iOS-friendly security appliance
WatchGuard's latest security appliance, the XTM 330, allows business travelers from small enterprises to use their iPads or iPhones to communicate securely with the office, the vendor said on Tuesday. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Nimsoft

Fair to Partly Cloudy
This paper describes unique characteristics of cloud service delivery models and details distinct monitoring responsibilities and challenges of each model. Read now.

Crazy popular Google I/O conference stretched to 3 days, moved to June
Google has announced that its increasingly popular Google I/O conference, which this year sold out in 59 minutes, will be stretched from two days to three and moved from May to June in 2012. Read More

Rohm builds chip that will send data at 30Gbps, through clothing, paper
Japanese component maker Rohm said it has developed an experimental chip that can send and receive signals at terahertz-range frequencies, which can carry data at speeds of up to 30Gbps and penetrate clothing and paper. Read More

AT&T may sell off T-Mobile assets to gain approval for $39B merger
AT&T could be negotiating to sell off as much as 40% of T-Mobile USA assets in an effort to to garner Department of Justice approval of its imperiled $39 billion acquisition of the Deutsche Telekom unit. Read More

2011 Gift Guide: Indiana Shaw and the Office of Doom
2011 Gift Guide: Indiana Shaw and the Office of Doom As part of the Network World holiday gift guide (2011 Cool Yule Tools), we present the adventures of Keith "Indiana" Shaw as he searches for hidden Tech Treasures in the Office of Doom. From: networkworld Views: 1 0 ratings Time: 05:04 More in Science & Technology Read More

Digital Video and Photo Tech Treasures [2011 Cool Yule Tools]
Like smartphones and music players, the digital video and photography category has exploded with cameras over the past few years. Rather than focusing on every model and device with an X number of megapixels, we've focused our attention new ways and gadgets that incorporate photography or video in new or different ways. There are plenty of sites that cover each new camera (PC World comes to mind), rather, here are some cool gift ideas to enhance your existing camera or video device: Read More



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