DSL reaches speeds of 170 Mbps

	10 Android devices that were too weird to succeed | Despite its design, One M9 unlikely to be HTC's knight in shining armor
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	DSL reaches speeds of 170 Mbps While those of us interested in obtaining the fastest download speeds possible closely watch, and then seize on, fiber and upgraded cable rollouts, salivating over speeds of 100 Mbps and up, it's easy to forget the many people still can't get cable and rely on lowly, twisted-pair DSL. Read More WHITE PAPER: Adallom Adallom for AWS The Adallom cloud application security platform for AWS allows IT organizations to: enable secure access of the AWS administrative console for the right users, address security and compliance mandates that requires attestation and reporting of AWS activities, and govern and address risky behaviors. View now In this Issue 10 Android devices that were too weird to succeed Despite its design, One M9 unlikely to be HTC's knight in shining armor Imagination floats sub-$100 MIPS tablet running Firefox OS INSIDER Mobile security: iOS vs. Android vs. BlackBerry vs. Windows Phone Worst data breaches of 2014 The data breach quiz: What have we learned? WHITE PAPER: Fortinet Threat Brief: A Detailed Analysis of Targeted Email Attacks Curious about how email attacks can still bypass established defenses and, more importantly, what you can about it? View Now>> 10 Android devices that were too weird to succeed Taking risks on new ideas is great, but sometimes they go too farIn less than a decade Android has gone from an ecosystem consisting of only a couple of similar devices to one of unfathomable variety. Among the thousands of Android phones and tablets that have sprung into being over the years, there are some that stand out as particularly strange.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Despite its design, One M9 unlikely to be HTC's knight in shining armor The One M9 may be a knockout, but it’s not likely to save HTC. The device looks similar to its predecessor at a time when competitors have multiplied and stepped up their game, making it even harder for the struggling company to make a mark in the high-end segment.Design has, since the launch of the first One model, been HTC’s biggest strength. The One M9, however, doesn’t have the same wow factor as its predecessors since the design is no longer as groundbreaking.“To most consumers the One M9 will look almost identical to the One M8, which preceded it, and that’s a big challenge for HTC,” said Ben Wood, chief of research at CCS Insight.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Fortinet A New Class of Firewall – Internal Network Firewall (INFW) Learn about how the new INFW approach delivers continuous visibility and protection of the network from the inside out shortening the window of exposure and limiting potential damage. Get the details in this white paper. View Now>> Imagination floats sub-$100 MIPS tablet running Firefox OS With Android and iOS dominating the tablet market, Mozilla’s Firefox OS hasn’t had much of a look in. It’s now getting a bit of help from ARM rival Imagination Technologies, which has ported a version of Firefox to a prototype tablet based on its MIPS chip architecture.The tablet is a reference design built by China’s Ingenic and it’s designed to be priced under $100. It can run either Android 4.4, known as KitKat, or an experimental version of the Firefox OS, Imagination said in a blog post.It’s designed to help Imagination and Mozilla target the market for very low cost tablets sold in emerging markets like Brazil and India.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More INSIDER Mobile security: iOS vs. Android vs. BlackBerry vs. Windows Phone Apple's iPhone and iPad long ago pushed out the BlackBerry as the corporate standard for mobile devices, in all but the highest-security environments. Google -- whose Android platform reigns outside the corporate world -- is now trying to push out Apple, with a new effort called Android for Work. And Samsung is upping the game with a new version of its own Android security suite, Knox.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More WHITE PAPER: Scribe Software 10 Best Practices for Integrating Data Data integration is often underestimated and poorly implemented, taking significant time and resources. Yet, it continues to grow in strategic importance to the business, as customer data and touch points grow with the emergence of cloud, social and mobile technologies. Download your copy today. Learn More Worst data breaches of 2014 Trending up?Image by Benjamin Lawless The Identity Theft Resource Center found 85,611,528 records exposed last year in the 783 breaches. The list unfortunately just seems to grow with every update. 2015 is proving to be no different with the Anthem and Premera breaches occurring. But before we move on to this year's compromises, here are the greatest number of records breached from lowest to highest from 2014.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More The data breach quiz: What have we learned? Lessons to be learnedImage by David GoehringTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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