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Public safety considerations: Let's step back
In my discussions with various entities about a potential nationwide public safety network, there's an implication that these are "early days" for public safety interoperability. Read More


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Top Tips for Securing iPhones and iPads in the Enterprise
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Back-to-school IT projects reshape campus life
Technology shifts are shaking up IT priorities in colleges and universities. Here are six areas where schools are redefining needs and finding new opportunities. Read More

Android book to be produced in wiki format
Google's foray into the smartphone market has become the subject of numerous books written to explain its Android technology. Read More

Dell Streak teardown: Go ahead and drop the tablet
The Dell Streak tablet, which goes on sale Friday in the United States, is a sturdy device just daring you to drop it. But if you do need to take it apart and fix it, that's not a problem, according to iFixit, which this week tore the device open for peek inside. Read More

Developers unhappy over Oracle Android suit
But the lawsuit against Google is not likely to affect most Java users Read More

The world's geekiest tournaments
In this slideshow, we'll examine the seven geekiest competitions out there today, from battling robots to competitive hand gesturing. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Sybase

IT Guide to Managing Personal Devices in the Enterprise
You can't avoid it any longer: Developing a strategy for managing employees' personal mobile devices. Get this paper and learn how to create a more secure and manageable mobile enterprise. It's yours, compliments of Sybase. Read More

Nokia kills social networking application
Nokia's Messaging for Social Networks will never make it out of the beta stage. On Friday, Nokia said it is discontinuing the application and instead will use what it has learned in the upcoming N8 smartphone. Read More

Wozniak recalls role of memory in Apple's early days
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak shared memories about memory on Thursday at the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, California. Read More

Faster HSPA smartphones, modems coming soon
Smartphones and modems are about to get faster mobile broadband connections -- 14.4M bps (bits per second) and 42M bps, repectively -- using HSPA+ (High Speed Packet Access). Read More

Intel-McAfee Deal: Secure Mobility By Design
The news of Intel acquiring McAfee for nearly $8 billion caught the tech world off guard and perplexed analysts at face value. The fact is that it doesn't make much sense based on the Intel and McAfee of today, but as the dust settles the deal makes more sense when viewed as a visionary shift with an eye on where technology is headed--everywhere. Read More

SketchBook Pro for iPad
With its large touch screen, the iPad is a great device for sketching, doodling and painting without having to lug around paper, canvas, paint or other art supplies. With the right app, your iPad becomes a mobile art studio so you're ready to create that next masterpiece whenever inspiration hits. Sketchbook Pro from Autodesk is just such an app. With its many advanced features, it proves to be one of the best painting apps in the App Store. Read More


WHITE PAPER: ArcSight

Building a Successful Security Operations Center
This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center

MIT brings super-computing power to the Android phone
MIT has teamed up with TACC to develop a super-computing app for the Android Read More

SAP, Sybase lay out tech road maps
SAP and Sybase officials are gathering in Boston on Thursday to reveal how they plan to "co-innovate" their respective technologies in the areas of mobility, analytics and EIM (enterprise information management). Read More

Qrank for iPhone
Qrank is a challenging and well-designed trivia game that enables you to compete against friends in daily rounds of 20 questions. It also allows you to easily post your results to Facebook or Twitter. The app from Ricochet Labs is designed for the iPhone but looks just fine when boosted to fit the iPad's larger screen. Read More

Tumbleroo brings Tumblr blogging to iPad
Among the major Internet services that tragically have lacked a native iPad app is Tumblr, a blogging service that William Porter liked in our Macworld review. Sure, there's a native Tumblr iPhone app, and Tumblr's Website is acceptable in Mobile Safari. But now there's Tumbleroo from Hanso Group, the first native iPad client that can satiate your Tumblr reading and blogging addiction. Read More

Trade groups oppose proposal to require FM in mobile devices
Trade groups representing consumer electronics makers and mobile carriers have voiced opposition to a recent proposal by the radio and recording industries to require all mobile devices in the U.S. to include FM receivers. Read More

Chrome OS tablet from HTC reported to ship in November
An HTC tablet running Google's Chrome operating system will be sold by Verizon Wireless in late November, according to a source cited by the blog Downloadsquad. Read More

 
 
 

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Mobile deathmatch: RIM BlackBerry Torch 9800 vs. Apple iPhone 4
Apple's iPhone has reinvented the mobile phone, while the longtime smartphone king, the venerable BlackBerry, has been slow to change. Now, Research in Motion has updated the BlackBerry to incorporate modern touch capabilities while remaining very much a BlackBerry. Here's how the two devices compare in everyday usage.

Hands-On Tour: Google Goggles Visual Search
Google Goggles -- not to be confused with Google Mail Goggles, the company's inebriated e-mailing preventer -- lets you search from your cell phone simply by snapping a photo. Want more info on a product? Take its picture. Need info about a business? Photograph the storefront. Put simply, this thing packs some serious power, and its capabilities stretch far.

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