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Cisco shows Brazil the money McAfee brings antivirus support to VMware's vShield The Byte - Motorola antitrust, Samsung Tab delayed, Google deception, flying car Sprint offers hosted UC Windows 8: The Metro Start Screen Stops Me RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC Transform End User Computing Turn to EMC to bring new simplicity, power, and efficiency to end user computing-any user, any device, anywhere. Click to continue Looks like Apple paid off victim of ham-handed iPhone search It would seem that the missing iPhone prototype wasn't "priceless," after all. Apple has apparently reached an out-of-court settlement to keep a San Francisco man from suing the company over what his attorney -- and virtually everyone else -- called an "outrageous" warrantless search of the man's home, car and computer last summer by two Apple employees accompanied by four city police officers. Read More FBI: Cyberattacks grow as national security menace WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Cyberattacks are starting to eclipse terrorism as a threat to the country, say top officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, speaking before an audience of security professionals here at the GovSec Conference today. Read More OpenStack supporters downplay Citrix defection Top coordinators of the OpenStack project shot back at Citrix for dropping its support for the open-source cloud development platform in favor of starting a separate open source project based on an Apache license. Read More Instagram, BlackBerry Mobile Fusion highlight a busy day for Android news Today was one of Those Days where a whole bunch of little news items popped up that related to Android and I didn't have time to write stories on all of them. So instead, for your benefit, I've decided to round them all up in one pithy blog post. Enjoy! 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But the real battle, for now, is over the L-1 visa and this fight just got bigger Read More What is on a US Secret Service mainframe anyway? Periodically the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees the US Secret Service issues what it calls Privacy Impact Statements on systems that collect personally identifiable information. Read More Cisco shows Brazil the money Cisco this week said it would invest close to $550 million in Brazil to expand its presence in the country and spur economic growth. Read More WHITE PAPER: Antenna Mobile strategy—what are 1,000 businesses planning for 2012 The Mobile Business Forecast 2012 surveyed 1,000 global businesses on their current/future plans for mobile. The report offers insight into how companies are using mobile to address the needs of consumers and their own employees. In addition, find tips on how to avoid chaos in the rush to mobilize. Learn More McAfee brings antivirus support to VMware's vShield McAfee today announced a version of its antivirus software for VMware's vShield security technology. Read More The Byte - Motorola antitrust, Samsung Tab delayed, Google deception, flying car Europe's competition regulator has launched two antitrust investigations into Motorola Mobility.Samsung has delayed its Galaxy Tab 2 family until the end of April. Google is responsible for misleading and deceptive ads an Australian court ruled.Th Read More Sprint offers hosted UC Sprint has launched "Sprint Complete Collaboration," a hosted and fully managed unified communications (UC) bundle designed to meet the needs of midsize and large businesses. The new UC service is powered by Cisco's Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS) platform and is delivered over all-IP network. Read More Windows 8: The Metro Start Screen Stops Me Microsoft has been praising Windows 8 as a reimagining of Windows, but CIO.com's Shane O'Neill can't see past the shoddy design of the Metro start screen. Read More
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