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Do we need a Carterfone-for-wireless ruling?
Recently I wrote about a company in Texas that was bawled out by its mobile carrier when the company's internal phone-signal repeaters began interfering with the carrier's new 3G network. Though the company was skeptical that the FCC would really fine it $20,000 a day, as the carrier threatened, it didn't call the carrier's bluff. Instead, it found a different solution. Read More


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Perfecting Application Performance
The enterprise application scene has become increasingly complicated over the years. Things have changed with the rise of Web services, SOA, Virtualization and cloud computing. In this Executive Guide explore how to get the best performance out of today's application environments. Read Now.

What's in a smartphone processor? Increasingly a lot
Over the past few years, many processor chips have moved far beyond the traditional functions of plain old central processing units (CPUs) and are now responsible for a wide array of functions including power saving, system memory and video processing. Read More

Dear AT&T: Soon We'll All Be Data Hogs
By now you've read all about the pros and cons of AT&T's new tiered data plans. The demise of the wireless carrier's all-you-can-eat unlimited offering is bad news for the small percentage of bandwidth hogs who, with their piggish downloading and streaming, are slowing Ma Bell's robust network to a crawl. Read More

AT&T iPad 3G breach teaches smartphone security lessons
AT&T's failure to protect some iPad 3G user e-mail addresses highlights a range of security issues that enterprise IT groups should note as they roll out smartphone applications on mobile platforms such as iPhone and Android. Read More

Akamai buys up mobile content firm
Akamai has bought mobile content provider Velocitude Read More


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Strategies for Unleashing Cloud Performance
Whether a business builds out its own cloud or buys cloud services from someone else, they need to be sure the end results are optimized for the speed users require. This paper identifies where the limitations of cloud computing exist and provides actionable strategies to unleash cloud performance. Click here!

'Brute force' script snatched iPad e-mail addresses
Security experts blamed a 'brute force' attack that exposed the e-mail addresses of more than 100,000 iPad owners on poorly-designed AT&T software. Read More

T-Mobile will be next U.S. iPhone carrier, analyst says
A Kaufman Brothers investment analysts Thursday predicted that T-Mobile will be the next U.S. iPhone carrier, refuting the widespread belief that Verizon Wireless is next in line. Read More

Apps must disconnect to survive
If your mobile application can't work inside a lift, or crashes though train tunnels then you need to back to the drawing board, says one Windows Phone 7 developer. Read More

iPhone 4, iOS 4 offer deeper enterprise support
Apple CEO Steve Jobs promised deeper enterprise support with with its iPhone 4 and its iOS 4 software, noting better data protection, wireless application distribution and support for multiple Exchange e-mail accounts as well as SSL VPN security. Read More


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RIM Updates BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) v5.0 SP1
BlackBerry maker RIM has issued maintenance updates for organizations' Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) v5.0 service pack 1 (SP1) deployments. Read More

How to Avoid Mobile Phone Bill Shock: 5 Fixes
San Francisco resident Bridget S. (she asked that her last name not be used) nearly fell out of her chair when she opened her T-Mobile wireless bill a few months ago and learned that she owed the company nearly $800--about 16 times her usual charge. "I couldn't believe it. I was just shocked," she told me. Read More

Sprint flubs sales numbers on Evo smartphones
Sprint Nextel has a lot riding on the HTC Evo 4G smartphone, so the carrier's admission that initial sales were less than Sprint reported on Monday disappointed some. Read More

New security/management software targets enterprise smartphones
A new client-server product uses a smartphone-based agent and server-based application to create and enforce security and management policies for four leading mobile operating systems. Read More

LTE continues to gain momentum, says GSA
More mobile network operators are placing their bets on the same next-generation mobile networking technology to offer users faster connections, according to a report from the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA). Read More

Public safety groups press for more spectrum
A coalition of emergency responder groups has launched a campaign to persuade Congress and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to give them a 10MHz block of spectrum that the FCC wants to auction for commercial mobile broadband purposes. Read More



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