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	Public safety quagmire One component of the FCC's national broadband plan includes a long-needed, nationwide wireless emergency-response network. But politics, spectrum arguments and technology are holding things up. Read More DOWNLOAD: Brocade 802.11n and Higher Education WLAN Opportunities Discover how Brocade Mobility solutions can help higher education institutions overcoming costly and difficult WLAN technical challenges. Read more! In this Issue Mobile tech IQ test Is Palm evaporating at HP? Products of the Week slideshow Tech's most notorious CEO scandals Flipboard for iPad AT&T, Verizon cashing in outside of phones Verizon LTE plans leaked HP could make mark in mobile technologies with next CEO Skype worries about iPhone, attracting business customers Android May Conquer the Smartphone World BlackBerry service to be monitored in Saudi Arabia iPhone in the Enterprise: 5 Shortcomings BlackBerry Torch 9800: 10 Things You Didn't Know About It WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Comparing 802.11n Technologies Wireless LAN users have access to speed in excess of 100Mbps. Learn how the different technologies compare in terms of maximum data rate and TCP throughput and find out how an 802.11n upgrade can have minimal impact on the existing network and not require a costly switch upgrade. Read more! Mobile tech IQ test How much do you really know about smartphone tech past and present? Read More Is Palm evaporating at HP? TechCrunch has confirmed that the man responsible for leading the Palm Pre design team has left HP. Peter Skillman was Vice President of Design at Palm, and had been with the company for 11 years. No word yet on what he'll be doing next. But he won't be working on webOS-based devices for HP, which finalized it's Palm buy-out in July. Read More Products of the Week slideshow Our round-up of intriguing new products from Cloudmark, Proofpoint, Research in Motion, among others. Read More Tech's most notorious CEO scandals Mark Hurd's surprise resignation as HP's CEO Friday following disclosure of a sexual harassment charge against him makes Hurd just the latest in a long line of tech CEOs forced to resign due to scandal. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sybase IT Guide to Managing Personal Devices in the Enterprise You can't avoid it any longer: Developing a strategy for managing employees' personal mobile devices. Get this paper and learn how to create a more secure and manageable mobile enterprise. It's yours, compliments of Sybase. Read More Flipboard for iPad Flipboard is a "personalized social magazine" app for the iPad that aggregates nine of your favorite online media sources, grabs content from links posted on those sites or by your friends on Twitter and Facebook (including photos and video), and then presents that content to you in a beautiful, easy-to-read, magazine-like format. After almost two weeks of using Flipboard's free app on a daily basis, I believe that Flipboard creates a Web media experience that is far greater than the sum of its parts. Read More AT&T, Verizon cashing in outside of phones The biggest U.S. mobile operators are setting up more new data connections to devices such as the iPad and machine-to-machine networks than to traditional phones, an industry consultant said Tuesday. Read More Verizon LTE plans leaked The Boy Genius Report has apparently obtained Verizon's roadmap for deployment of its 4G LTE services, which are slated to cover 75% of the United States by April 2012. Read More HP could make mark in mobile technologies with next CEO With Mark Hurd's sudden resignation, Hewlett-Packard Co. has a golden opportunity to hire a CEO with business savvy in mobile, wireless and smartphone areas, helping give the mature technology behemoth a needed and vital strategic direction. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Replace Controllers with Protocols Learn how a controller-less approach to WLAN keeps costs linear and predictive regardless of network size or deployment type. This architecture provides the capital cost advantages of autonomous APs and the technical advantages of controller-based approaches. Learn more! Skype worries about iPhone, attracting business customers ype worries about whether the iPhone and other Apple products will undermine its VoIP services and is also insecure about whether it can achieve service levels good enough to lure business customers, according to a filing with the SEC. Read More Android May Conquer the Smartphone World The global smartphone market is turning into a cheesy 1950s sci-fi flick: Androids are taking over. Read More BlackBerry service to be monitored in Saudi Arabia BlackBerry data services can continue in Saudi Arabia after Research in Motion agreed to monitoring of e-mail and instant messaging data services, an official of the country's regulator, Communications and Information Technology Commission, (CITC) said on Tuesday. Read More iPhone in the Enterprise: 5 Shortcomings What limitations are holding the iPhone and iPad back in the enterprise? Here's Forrester's take on five key limitations that must be overcome. Read More BlackBerry Torch 9800: 10 Things You Didn't Know About It The first BlackBerry smartphone with both a traditional, full-QWERTY BlackBerry keyboard and a touch-screen for navigation, the Torch 9800, is expected to be released in the United States by wireless carrier AT&T on Thursday, August 12 for $199.99 along with a new, two-year service agreement. Read More
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