How Long Beach cops are fighting gang violence with...PDFs?

A new tool from Microsoft helped this bar figure out that vodka was costing it a fortune | How to manage shared devices for workers who don't need them 24/7 Follow CITEworld BY IDG ENTERPRISE August 12, 2013 InCITE Your twice weekly digest of the most important developments in the consumerization of IT How Long Beach cops are fighting gang violence with...PDFs? Police officers in Long Beach, Calif., get real-time information about wanted gang members using in-car PDF files while on patrol. Arrests of gang members have gone up 10x since the program started. A new tool from Microsoft helped this bar figure out that vodka was costing it a fortune With Microsoft's new Power BI tool -- available as a preview later this month -- analytics moves to the cloud, saving companies the time and expense of running their own servers, while letting end-users see and manipulate data in Microsoft Office. How to manage shared devices for workers who don't need them 24/7 BYOD gets most of the headlines, but many workplaces have devices that users check out for a single shift or project. Managing those devices takes a very different approach. With voice, WhatsApp is now much better than your phone's texting app Sometimes you feel like firing off a text—and other times, saying what needs to be said just works best. That's why the latest update of WhatsApp, with a new voice messaging feature, is worth a look. Don't panic about the new location tracking feature in iOS 7 The inclusion of a new Frequent Locations feature in iOS 7 has raised the specter of Apple and its partner companies as big brother spying on individuals and gleaning secret data on businesses. But the truly scary possibility is how much information thieves will gain from stolen iPhones. Acer the latest to turn to Google after poor Windows sales After reporting a second quarter loss, Acer said it will try to sell more products based on Google software and fewer Windows products. CHART: PC and tablet sales by vendor Apple is still #1, but Lenovo is gaining fast.   Follow CITEworld Share this email You are currently subscribed to citeworld_weekly_update as security.world@gmail.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy Copyright (C) 2013 CITEworld, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham MA 01701 **Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@citeworld.com.**