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	Employee-owned devices are double-edged swords Increasingly, employees are buying their own mobile devices and bringing them into the enterprise. But just because you didn't foot the bill for the gear doesn't mean that your company's off the hook for compliance responsibilities. Read More WHITE PAPER: Polycom Unified Communications Drive Protocol Convergence Download this whitepaper today and examine the key behind the evolution of unified communications: SIP. Learn more. In this Issue 8 must-have Android security apps Perks drive up pay for tech CEOs Wells Fargo says no to personal smartphones and tablets, period How Google and Android users can make secure mobile market Android roars past BlackBerry globally, in U.S. No e-wallet will ever replace a John Wayne SonicWall CEO: Application awareness crucial for IT security 4 ways to have fun with IP addresses iPad 2's Web speed boost coming to other iOS devices this week WEBCAST: CA Success Story: DonorsChoose.org Moves to the Cloud Oliver Hurst-Hiller, CTO of DonorsChoose.org talks about why they moved to the cloud. Learn More 8 must-have Android security apps While Android is a terrific operating system in many ways, it does pose some real risks for IT departments. Last week's revelation that Google had to remove around 50 malware-infected applications from its Android Market highlighted the downside of the company's "free love" approach to publishing applications where it will let anyone put their app on the market and will only take it down if alerted by a third-party user. The upside of this, of course, is that the market also offers a wide variety of quality security applications that can protect you from malicious apps. Here are eight Android applications that can help IT departments keep a better hold on employees' Android-based devices. Read More Perks drive up pay for tech CEOs Jets! Cars! Home security services! All of these perks add to tech CEOs' pay packages. Read More Wells Fargo says no to personal smartphones and tablets, period Wells Fargo imposes strict regulations on employee-owned mobile devices and social networking sites because of security risks. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning According to Gartner, there is no "one size fits all" user provisioning solution. This Gartner Magic Quadrant highlights key differentiators when selecting a user provisioning solution and provides a comprehensive overview and ranking of the top 18 vendors in this market. Read Now How Google and Android users can make secure mobile market Android has a lot going for it, but as the last week has shown its approach to selling and distributing applications is going to need some improvement. Ever since launching Android in 2007, Google has gone out of its way to making the mobile operating system the most accessible and app-friendly in the industry.  Read More Android roars past BlackBerry globally, in U.S. Google's Android mobile OS surpassed RIM's BlackBerry OS globally and in the United States for the first time last month, with the Google smartphone and tablet software nearly tripling its worldwide market share to 15.2% over the past 12 months, according to Web watcher StatCounter.  Read More No e-wallet will ever replace a John Wayne Yet another reason why electronic wallets are unlikely to supplant leather ones Seems I'm not alone in doubting that e-wallets will eliminate the leather variety any time soon, as many of you have written to add to my list of wallet contents that even the smartest of mobile phones might find difficult to replicate. Read More WHITE PAPER: AccelOps Managing the Shift to Enterprise Private/Hybrid This report explores the readiness, deployment and operational controls of an internal/private cloud and hybrid approaches. We review adoption considerations; virtualization and cloud delivery of IT services impact as well as the challenges associated with data centers monitoring cloud services. Read now! SonicWall CEO: Application awareness crucial for IT security SonicWall once focused on small and midsize businesses, but its introduction earlier this year of a next-generation firewall line dubbed SuperMassive leaves no doubt that the company is now taking aim at larger enterprises. In fact, the privately-held San Jose company's CEO, Matt Madeiros, says the enterprise market accounted for nearly half of SonicWall's sales over the past six months. Read More 4 ways to have fun with IP addresses Why so serious? Here are a few ways to have some fun with your IP address.Look, I know that the pool of IPv4 addresses running out is a serious topic that requires a serious solution, and we should all be moving to IPv6 as soon as possible. But before we shelve those old IP addresses, let's take a look back at a few ways folks have had some fun with them. IP Spotting Read More iPad 2's Web speed boost coming to other iOS devices this week A quick and dirty JavaScript speed test of the new iPad 2 gives an early indication of how the tablet's processor, operating system and HTML improvements pay off in terms of performance. Read More
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