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What's shaking in location technology?
Location-tracking services from mobile operators are no longer limited to the reach of their own cellular network coverage. Cross-carrier location services are available from companies such as AT&T and Vodafone, plugging visibility gaps and opening doors to new enterprise applications. Read More


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Akamai Cloud Optimization for Amazon EC2™
The emergence of public cloud platforms and services has IT organizations thinking about which applications they want to keep in-house and which they can build within the cloud. Read more

iPhone 5 rumor roll-up for the week ending July 29
Evidence, or "evidence," surfaces this week showing the Next iPhone will be either a lot like the existing iPhone or radically different. Apple moves into weapons manufacturing. Read More

10 wicked off-the-cuff uses for retired NASA space shuttles
Who wouldn't eat at the Space Shuttle Café or sleep at the Shuttle Inn Read More

Sprint, LightSquared strike 15-year deal for LTE wholesale network
Sprint and LTE technology provider LightSquared announced a 15-year deal Thursday that gives Sprint $9 billion in cash, primarily for spectrum hosting and LTE network services it would provide LightSquared. Read More


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Ensuring Reliable Service Delivery
Learn how integrating infrastructure management tools with existing application performance management solutions will allow IT to promote holistic management that spans silos. Read Now

Android tops U.S. smartphone OS market with 39% share; Apple No. 1 overall vendor
Android's multiple vendors are keeping it on top in the U.S. smartphone operating system wars, although Apple is still dominant as an individual manufacturer. Read More

Tablets used widely for business, says Social Nuggets survey
If your employees promise that they'll use tablets for business purposes if your company buys them, they're probably not lying. Read More

iPads to kick Android tablet butt until 2015, report says
Apple iPads will continue to dominate the tablet market for the next couple of years, but market watcher Informa Telecoms & Media expects Android tablets to significantly cut the gap by 2015. Read More


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Debate rages over how to manage personal mobile devices used for work
Increasingly, businesses accept the idea that employees should be able to use their personal mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, for work. But debate is raging as to whether these employee-owned devices should be managed and secured exactly as corporate-owned devices might be. Read More

IEEE sets standard for 'white spaces'
A just-published standard for using the "white spaces" between TV channels could offer as much as 22M bps (bits per second) over distances as great as 100 kilometers (62 miles). Read More

BlackBerry maker RIM axing 2,000 jobs, 11% of workforce
Research in Motion, which has been losing ground to Apple, Google and even Microsoft in the mobile market, announced Monday it is cutting 2,000 jobs, or about 11% of its workforce. Read More



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