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Mozilla's 'modest proposal:' Dump the smartphone OS
Mozilla has a "modest proposal" about smartphones and it's simply stated. "Dump the operating system. All of them." Read More


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Introducing BlackBerry Mobile Fusion
Now all personal and corporate-owned BlackBerry® smartphone and BlackBerry® PlayBook™ devices can seamlessly access business data and applications on a single, secure management platform. Soon, Apple® iOS and Google® Android™ devices will be able to do the same. Learn how this new approach will end mobile chaos at blackberry.com/mobilefusion

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First Industy-Wide BSM Maturity Benchmark Study
This first-of-its-kind benchmark study reporting the IT and Business maturity illustrating the business service management imperative today. The survey offers insight into the current and future state of the Business Service Management imperative across global organizations. Learn More

How to protect your online privacy
Google's new privacy policy can by confusing, so here are clear steps to take to protect yourself online Read More

iPad 3 concept video: How Apple could really blow us away
The window for design firms to spit out flashy iPad 3 concepts is closing now that Apple has announced plans for an iPad event on March 7, but here's one late entry that's fun to ponder. Read More

Windows 8 offers no management help for ARM devices
Organizations looking to deploy Windows 8 on ARM-based (WOA) devices will have to do so without being able to manage them, according to a Microsoft advisory outlining the business benefits of the new operating system. Read More


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CI for Dummies eBook
This book will help you understand why infrastructure convergence has been widely accepted as the optimal approach for simplifying and accelerating your IT to deliver services at the speed of business while also shifting significantly more IT resources from operations to innovation. Learn more

Microsoft's Azure cloud suffers serious outage
Microsoft's Azure cloud infrastructure and development service experienced a serious outage on Wednesday, with the system's service management component going down worldwide starting at 1:45 a.m. GMT. Read More

Alleged RSA crypto flaw hotly debated
Is the RSA cryptosystem flawed or is the recent sharp criticism of it the result of poor — or even malicious — implementation of key-generation techniques that appear to have rendered some RSA-based encryption keys crackable? Read More

Women Take Social Privacy More Seriously Than Men Do
Social media privacy awareness is increasing among Americans, according to a new study. However in the battle of the sexes, women trump men when it comes to locking down the privacy of profiles. Read More


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Protecting Your Data in Today's Threat Landscape
Today's threats to critical systems and valuable data come from more sources than ever—a ticked off employee who seeks revenge, or activists seeking to expose sensitive data. Learn More!

BYOD: There is no stopping employees' devices on your network
It used to be the IT department's answer was always no when an employee asked to use a personal device for work. IT often felt the risk was far too great to the company's network security to allow this. Read More

Riverbed teams with Akamai to boost SaaS performance
Anyone who has endured the painful wait of a slow-loading application is familiar with the frustration and lost productivity that follows. That's the problem that motivated Riverbed and Akamai to join forces for a new SaaS acceleration offering, with the objective of resolving SaaS application performance issues that were previously untouchable. Read More

Who do you blame when IT breaks?
There's always a reason why things break in IT, and the powers-that-be can usually find someone to blame -- be it an data center operations staff member, an OEM, a systems integrator or a third party service provider. Read More

Toolset lets mobile carriers meld core services with the Web
Unlocking the treasure trove of mobile carrier services and data for new mobile apps is getting a lot easier. And now, it's getting easier for the carriers themselves to "mash-up" those internal resources with external Web-accessible services from Facebook and others. Read More

Who needs Dancing with the Stars when we've got Dancing Android Robots?
These dancing Android Robots at Intel's Mobile World Congress booth in Barcelona really make me want to be there. Well, maybe I'm just as happy colleague John Cox took this trip for the team. (Video via AndroidCentral) Catch up on all the MWC news here. Read More



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