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How Long Beach cops are fighting gang violence with...PDFs?

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BY IDG ENTERPRISE

August 12, 2013

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How Long Beach cops are fighting gang violence with...PDFs?

Police officers in Long Beach, Calif., get real-time information about wanted gang members using in-car PDF files while on patrol. Arrests of gang members have gone up 10x since the program started.

A new tool from Microsoft helped this bar figure out that vodka was costing it a fortune

With Microsoft's new Power BI tool -- available as a preview later this month -- analytics moves to the cloud, saving companies the time and expense of running their own servers, while letting end-users see and manipulate data in Microsoft Office.

How to manage shared devices for workers who don't need them 24/7

BYOD gets most of the headlines, but many workplaces have devices that users check out for a single shift or project. Managing those devices takes a very different approach.

With voice, WhatsApp is now much better than your phone's texting app

Sometimes you feel like firing off a text—and other times, saying what needs to be said just works best. That's why the latest update of WhatsApp, with a new voice messaging feature, is worth a look.

Don't panic about the new location tracking feature in iOS 7

The inclusion of a new Frequent Locations feature in iOS 7 has raised the specter of Apple and its partner companies as big brother spying on individuals and gleaning secret data on businesses. But the truly scary possibility is how much information thieves will gain from stolen iPhones.