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iPhone 4 Wi-Fi proves a challenge for university
The iPhone 4 is the first to use 802.11n for Wi-Fi connectivity. But it runs only in the crowded 2.4GHz band. And that poses some complex challenges if you have 500 students trying to connect their iPhone 4 in a lecture hall. Read More


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'Free Java': InfoWorld's guide to the protest goodies
Show your support for an 'independent' Java and stick it to Larry Ellison by buying one of these T-shirts, buttons, or mugs. Read More

Oracle hires Hurd: Who's sorry now?
In just one month, Mark Hurd has gone from CEO of HP, which he helped turn into the world's largest technology company, to a president of Oracle Corp., which wants to become as big as HP or IBM. Read More

Secret copyright treaty draft leaked after Washington talks
Another round of negotiations, another leak: Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) published what it says is the latest draft of the secret Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement (ACTA) over the weekend. Read More


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Can global customers that are not part of the world's largest global companies get the "business-class" service they deserve? Find out in this white paper. Read More

What to expect from Apple's iOS updates
Small point updates to its mobile operating system often give Apple the chance to smooth the edges of its major releases, while adding a few smaller features here and there. iOS 4.1—announced last week to kick off Apple's refresh of its iPod line—is different. This time around, Apple is putting a much greater emphasis on new features, including support for high dynamic range (HDR) photos, the new Game Center social network, iTunes TV rentals, and more. And if that's not enough, the company also pulled back the curtain on the forthcoming iOS 4.2, which aims to finally unify the software on the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, and has no shortage of new features either. Read More

Facial recognition: Identifying faces in a crowd in real-time
Facial recognition systems have been evolving since the 1960s, trying to automatically identify a person from a mug shot, database, video, or digital image. Most were flawed and could be rendered ineffective if a full frontal view of the face was off by 20 degrees, by poor lighting, long hair, sunglasses, and even by a big toothy smile. But now facial recognition as a security system has leapfrogged... Read More

WAN Transformation is a Go!
We ran into an interesting problem over the last year. We are out of bandwidth. Despite the network design being solid, the users were just stepping on each other for bandwidth, even with QoS. Read More


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Police terror trainers lose USB stick in street
The curse of the unencrypted memory stick has stuck Manchester Police, which has suffered embarrassment as a drive containing apparently sensitive information was found lying in the street. Read More

Did E-mail and the Internet Kill the 9-5 Workday?
Have you checked your work e-mail today? If you're like most employees in the United States and United Kingdom, the answer is yes despite the fact that it is not only the weekend, but an extended holiday weekend for most workers in the US. A day off is becoming an increasingly foreign concept as workers stay connected virtually 24/7. Read More

Vehicle camera watches the road for stray pedestrians
Mobileye Products has added a pedestrian alert feature to its collision prevention device, warning drivers up to 2.7 seconds prior to a possible accident. Read More

About that "new research" that says CEOs got rich by firing workers...
It was a made-for-viral-Internet-meme: a report issued just before Labor Day, with the title "CEO Pay and the Great Recession", from the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), complete with an illustration of a tophat-and-tails CEO brandishing a $12 million check "for laying off >3,000 workers." After that, you didn't really have to read it. And judging from the firestorm of media and blogger coverage, not to mention the reader comments, few did. Even fewer asked who wrote the report, and why, and whether the study and its conclusions were actually valid. Read More

What Apple has in common with successful open source projects
Matt Asay hit on a fundamental - and often overlooked - point in his GigaOm post the other day: Apple is able to conquer markets by ignoring the concept of the faceless, generic "market" and instead concentrating on winning the hearts and minds of individual users. Read More



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