Mobile operators hedge bets on usage; Tablets, real and rumored

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	Mobile operators hedge bets on usage The mobile network operators are ambiguous in the language they use to specify what they do and don't allow on their networks. The grammarian in me has long assumed that they are just poor communicators. But my realist side has now concluded that ambiguity is a strategy carriers can hide behind to shut down data hogs simply by crying "violation!" Read More DOWNLOAD: BlackBerry Free Download from RIM BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express offers IT control and security features you can trust even for employees that choose to bring their own BlackBerry smartphones into your business. Download this free license to support up to 75 users on your existing Exchange Server. Download Now. In this Issue Tablets, real and rumored FTC asked to investigate Google Wi-Fi 'snooping' Study: no link between brain tumors and cell phones Sprint customer satisfaction surges As big as Google is, Nexus One online store's failure shows wireless carriers still rule What's next for Wi-Fi and WiMAX IPhone mobile payments trial to begin soon Kindle for Android app coming soon Mobile Web Conferencing: Next Big Smartphone Trend? Best practices for effective Wi-Fi RF management Can RIM make the transition from enterprise to consumer? Microsoft, Apple work to fix iPad Hotmail glitch Ice cream with (RFID) chips to go Skype to focus on iPad, iPhone, Android, not Windows Phone 7 WHITE PAPER: Oracle Why BI is Ripe - Now! For Businesses of Any Size. Oracle's range of offerings to mid-size and emerging companies reflects its vision that BI and EPM solutions can be embraced by companies of all sizes. Read Now! Tablets, real and rumored A quick look at tablets on the market today and that might be available soon Read More FTC asked to investigate Google Wi-Fi 'snooping' A consumer group has called on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google after the search company revealed that it had been collecting people's Internet communications from open wireless networks. Read More Study: no link between brain tumors and cell phones The 10-year Interphone study of the health effects of mobile-phone use has found no increased risk of two types of brain tumors. Although some of the data shows an increased risk for some mobile-phone users, the possibility of errors prevents researchers from drawing any hard conclusions, the study said. Read More Sprint customer satisfaction surges Sprint CEO Dan Hesse's efforts to improve his company's customer satisfaction could be bearing some fruit, although that's still cold comfort for a company that has lost 5 million wireless subscribers over the past three years. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here! As big as Google is, Nexus One online store's failure shows wireless carriers still rule Google Inc.s decision to stop selling its Nexus One Android smartphone through its online store might disappoint some customers hoping to limit the role of wireless carriers in the smartphone buying process. Read More What's next for Wi-Fi and WiMAX Network World and our sister publications at IDG are taking a broad look at wireless technologies and all of the advances that are in store. John Cox explains why Wi-Fi will have to change in the near future. Brad Reed looks at the promise of WiMAX 2. Read More IPhone mobile payments trial to begin soon Visa expects soon to begin trials of contactless payments system for Apple's iPhone, using a special case for the phone developed by DeviceFidelity. Read More Kindle for Android app coming soon Kindle software for some Android smartphones will soon be available for free, granting access to 500,000 Kindle e-books, according to Amazon.com. Read More WHITE PAPER: Fluke Networks Ethernet Performance Metrics Ethernet performance measurement can help. Various metrics can quantify and characterize performance. Test plans can be written to satisfy varying organizational objectives. This white paper will describe advancements in field measurement of end-to-end Ethernet performance. Read More! Mobile Web Conferencing: Next Big Smartphone Trend? Mobile web conferencing isn't for everyone - but IT leaders should remember that some of the most prominent business users are the ones who want it. Here's a look at why IT should support this niche feature. Read More Best practices for effective Wi-Fi RF management Wireless LANs have evolved significantly over the years, with controller-based architectures offering a system-level approach to wireless management. But with many businesses now relying on their WLANs for critical operations, it is crucial for IT managers to gain visibility into the radio frequency spectrum. Read More Can RIM make the transition from enterprise to consumer? The BlackBerry's long smartphone dominance is starting to crack. Read More Microsoft, Apple work to fix iPad Hotmail glitch MIcrosoft today said it is working with Apple to solve problems that iPad users have had with Windows Live Hotmail. Read More Ice cream with (RFID) chips to go Izzy's Ice Cream Cafe uses RFID technology to give customers real-time updates on all the flavors available in its St. Paul shop. Read More Skype to focus on iPad, iPhone, Android, not Windows Phone 7 Skype, one of the go-to apps for any mobile platform these days, is taking a wait-and-see approach to Microsoft's latest mobile platform while it focuses on iPhone, iPad, Android, and others. Read More
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