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BYOD: Making Sense of the Work-Personal Device Blur

The bring-your-own-device trend intersects the lines of personal and work lives, stirring up a mess of problems for enterprise IT leaders, from dealing with lost devices to keeping corporate data out of consumer cloud services.

Application Streaming Gets a New Face With Cloudpaging

Application streaming–delivering software on-demand from centralized servers or the cloud–holds great promise, but has proved elusive in practical application. Legacy applications can prove difficult to virtualize and performance has been problemat

McCain, GOP Leaders Intro Cybersecurity Bill Alternative

The Republican-proposed SECURE IT Act presents a much narrower vision than bipartisan comprehensive cybersecurity measure, adding no regulations and limiting focus to voluntary sharing of information about threats.

A How-to Guide for the New Facebook Business Pages

Timeline has finally come to Facebook Pages. Here's a look at how the features differ from your personal Timeline and how you can best optimize them to market your business and communicate with your customers.

Free Android Apps for BlackBerry PlayBook: 10 Best Downloads

RIM recently released a major software update for its BlackBerry PlayBook that enables it to run Android applications. Android-on-the-PlayBook pickings are somewhat slim right now, but there are some quality apps out there if you know where to look,

Why You Should Not Buy Your Child an iPad

With the iPad 3 debut coming, you can bet a lot of children and young adults are begging their parents to buy them an Apple tablet. But you'd be wise to resist the urge, according to CIO.com's Tom Kaneshige.

Women Take Social Privacy More Seriously Than Men Do

As social media activity climbs and the realities of sharing too much with too many people becomes clear, a new report shows that Americans realize the importance of knowing and using their privacy settings. But it's a message women are getting

Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Enhances Productivity, Reduces Distractions

The beta of Microsoft's integrated development environment, code-named Visual Studio 11, will focus on helping developers build modern consumer and business applications, providing a simplified and distraction-free environment and enabling colla

Chomp Deal Fixes Major Apple Blind Spot

Apple's acquisition of Chomp should fix a big problem on the App Store and its purchase of Siri brought an amazing feature to the iPhone 4S. But what kind of acquisitions will Apple make down the road?

BlackBerry 10 OS to Support Microsoft ActiveSync, No BES: What It Means for IT

IT administrators will be able to connect new BlackBerry smartphones running RIM's upcoming BlackBerry 10 OS directly to Microsoft Exchange corporate servers using Microsoft's ActiveSync technology, eliminating the need for a BlackBerry Ent

Top 25 iPhone & iPad Apps for Business

Apple's iPhone and iPad may have been built for consumers, but the folks in Cupertino correctly guessed that what's good for consumers is good for businesses. The only stumbling block may be the growing volume of apps available: more 140,00

Inadequate SSL Certificate Data Threatens IT Security

SSL certificates are a fundamental component of secure online transactions, but a new survey finds that a majority of organizations don't know where or how many certificates they actually have, and nearly as many lack an accurate idea of which c

Android On Call: Hospital Builds Custom Mobile App for Patient Data

Palomar Pomerado Health in San Diego built its own Android app for accessing real-time patient information, with Cisco Cius tablets providing the added bonus of voice and video. And an iOS version is coming up, stat.

Obama Backs ‘Consumer Bill of Rights’ for Online Privacy

The White House embraces browser-based do-not-track tools. FTC will gain enforcement authority as Commerce Department convenes stakeholders (including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo) to develop a voluntary codes of conduct. Center for Digital

Who Wants Microsoft Office on the iPad?

OnLive jumps into the Office-for-iPad fray with a subscription-based hosted desktop Office suite for the iPad that should be more reliable than its criticized free version. Bonus: Will Microsoft deliver iPad Office?

BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0: Four Things IT Needs to Know

RIM this week rolled out a major software update for its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet PC, with new native e-mail and PIM apps, a number of cool new productivity features and corporate server support that's sure to have significant IT implications.

F5 Networks Focuses on Alliances with Mobile-Device Management Vendors

F5 Networks says it has entered into technology-alliance agreements with several mobile-device management (MDM) vendors in order to optimize use of F5 Technologies remote-access software with MDM software used to manage smartphones and tablets.

(Fill in the Blank)-As-a-Service

IaaS, SaaS and PaaS are the obvious as-a-service offerings, but there are plenty of others. In fact, just about every letter of the alphabet has an "as a service."

Researchers Defeat Video CAPTCHA Antispam Tests

Security researchers have found a way to beat NuCaptcha video-based security tests that websites use to stop spam bots

Twitter Teams with Russian Search Engine

Russian search firm Yandex will display a feed from Twitter in its search engine results, the two companies announced today.

Aruba Simplifies IT Management of Employee-Owned Mobile Devices

New software from Aruba Networks lets IT groups secure and manage the influx of employee-owned devices to the corporate network.

Ubuntu Android Add-on Designed to Replace PCs

Canonical has released a version of Ubuntu that can drive PC monitors from Android phones

Antenna Software Launches Cloud-Based Mobile App Service

Antenna Software today unveiled cloud-based software called AMPchroma for designing, testing and managing mobile apps and mobile websites.

Apple Settles IPhone 4 Class Action: $15 Or Free Case for All Buyers

Over the weekend, Apple settled an almost two-year-old class action suit over the iPhone 4 and its alleged antenna issue.

Apache Web Server Gets High Performance Upgrade

Witrh Nginx close behind, the Apache HTTP server has been enhanced for high traffic environments

Apple’s Gatekeeper: a Low Cost for Partial Security

Out of the blue, Apple just announced Mountain Lion, the next generation of its OS X operating system. By the time Mountain Lion ships sometime next summer, Apple says it will have lots of new features, some transported from its iOS environment of th

Apple Moves Toward Digital Unity with Mountain Lion

It was clear with the release of Lion in 2011 that Apple's OS X and iOS feature sets were joining forces; that trend will continue this year with the release of OS X Mountain Lion.

Antenna Service Supports Full Lifecycle of Mobile App

Businesses can use the new AMPchroma hosted service to design, publish, manage and analyze mobile apps

Start-Up Click Security Debuts with Threat-Detection Product

Start-up Click Security launches today with a threat-detection product that analyzes and correlates intelligence gathered by sensors on network traffic and activity to provide real-time alerts or even automate defense response to network intrusions o

Europe Plans Exascale Funding Above U.S. Levels

The European Commission plans to double its investment in the push for exascale computing, even as European governments impose austerity measures elsewhere.

Unique Malware Samples Broke the 75 Million Mark in 2011

The number of unique malware samples broke the 75 million mark in 2011, McAfee notes in its fourth-quarter threats report for 2011, which also looks back at annual global trends in malicious code activity.

FAQ: What’s What in OS X Mountain Lion?

Last week, Apple took most Mac users by surprise when it released a developers preview of Mountain Lion, the company's newest desktop operating system, and announced it would ship the upgrade this summer.

Microsoft Doubles Support Lifespan for Consumer Windows 7, Vista

Microsoft has quietly extended support for the consumer versions of Windows 7 and Windows Vista by five years, syncing them with the lifespan of enterprise editions.

Microsoft Says Google Circumvents IE Privacy Policies Too

A researcher said Facebook and many others also use a loophole to get around browser privacy policies

Mozilla Gives CAs a Chance to Come Clean About Certificate Policy Violations

Mozilla asks CAs to revoke all sub-CA certificates that are used for SSL traffic interception, or face penalties if found out later

LightSquared Defaults on $56M Payment to Spectrum Owner Inmarsat

LightSquared says it won't pay until Inmarsat answers unresolved contractual questions

10 Questions for Snap Interactive CFO Jon Pedersen Sr.

Intel Ponders Solar-Powered CPU Tech in Graphics, Memory

Intel is looking to drive down processors' power consumption

Intel Moves Ahead with Wireless Integration Into Mobile Chips

Intel is working on building Wi-Fi and other capabilities into the processors, which could lead to lower mobile device prices

ITC Rules in Apple’s Favor in HTC Dispute

HTC said it may appeal the decision

Security in the Cloud Is All About Visibility and Control

When it comes to security in the cloud, organizations are confident in their cloud providers, but also and reluctant to expose certain types of data and applications, according to IT industry association CompTIA. Security vendors maintain the problem

Google: Third Oracle Damages Report has ‘fatal’ Flaws

The judge has said he won't set a trial date until Oracle submits an acceptable damages report.

The Lowdown on Google’s Safari Tracking Cookies

A grad student has caught Google with its hand in the cookies jar.

Apple Counts Down to 25 Billion Apps, Offers $10k App Store Prize

Apple, which launched its App Store in mid-2008, is on the verge of celebrating its 25 billionth app download and is dangling a $10,000 prize to one lucky customer.

Uncle Sam Wants IPads, and Maybe Androids

The U.S. Air Force is planning to buy as many as 18,000 tablet computers to serve as "electronic flight bags" that will replace the paper manuals and documents that air crews use today.

Crypto Researcher Arjen Lenstra Shares Thoughts on Paper Blasting RSA Cryptosystem

What a week for the RSA cryptosystem! A group of prominent researchers published a paper blasting it as woefully insecure, RSA said there's nothing wrong with the RSA algorithm, it's an implementation issue mainly with random-number key gen

IRS Warns of Dirty Dozen 2012 Tax Scams

The Internal Revenue Service this week issued its annual "Dirty Dozen" ranking of tax scams the agency says tend to surface around tax season each year.

Oracle Drops One of Its Patent Claims Against Google

The US Patent and Trademark Office had already rejected the claim

Top Brands Dominate Google+ Growth Numbers

The number of Google+ fans for the site's top 100 brands grew at a 1,400% pace last month, but almost all of the new followers were concentrated in the top 10 brands on the social media site, according to a new report.

Slow Smartphone? it’s Not the Network, it’s NAND Flash

Bad performance can be blamed on flash memory rather than CPU or network bandwidth, a team of researchers have found.