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	Undercover journalist lands job building iPhones at Foxconn, confirms fears about working conditions A journalist working for Chinese news agency the Shanghai Evening Post might bring the Apple-crazed public back to reality on the day of the company's iPhone 5 announcement, releasing a report based on one of its reporters' 10-day stint working at the infamous Foxconn factory where the iPhone 5 was assembled. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! In this Issue What online news looked like on 9/11 Why I never have problems with extended warranties Apache fires at Microsoft over IE10's DNT privacy settings Looking for Enterprise/Residence Convergence – A Visit to CEDIA Expo The End of Optical Storage? It's Here WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks Strategic Road Map for Network Access Control Long derided as an overhyped concept, network access control (NAC) has emerged as an important solution for mitigating the risks of consumerization. Network and security managers will need NAC to retain control of the network in a "bring your own device" (BYOD) environment. Read now. What online news looked like on 9/11 I'm pointing to this slideshow this morning for the obvious reason - today's Sept. 11 - and the fact that there are new readers showing up here all the time who may not have seen it last year. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Delivering Exceptional Applciation Experience Enterprises can achieve customer advantage by monitoring the quality and timeliness of mission-critical applications. Read this whitepaper to learn how with CA Technologies Application Performance Management solutions. Learn More Why I never have problems with extended warranties Standup comedian Dave Anthony has every right to find laughable the explanation offered to him by an extended-warranty company for not ponying up as promised when a used phone he bought for $120 stopped working for no apparent reason. Here's the relevant excerpt from an email sent to Anthony by Consumer Priority Service: Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Achieving Business Agility with Decision Management How 12 customers are using business rules and events to improve operational decision-making for better business outcomes. Learn More. Apache fires at Microsoft over IE10's DNT privacy settings Do Not Track (DNT) is supposed to protect a user's privacy; in theory if you have it on, then it tells advertisers not to stalk you around the web, not to track, build and sell your web behavior profile to yet other third parties. When Microsoft chose to buck the W3C's DNT proposal of "explicit consent required" by the user, and instead turned on DNT by default in Internet Explorer 10, the decision... Read More Looking for Enterprise/Residence Convergence – A Visit to CEDIA Expo I stopped by the CEDIA Expo show in Indianapolis last week (and my first visit to that fine city in a long time; I was impressed) with three objectives in mind. The first, and most important, was to look for overlap/convergence/you-get-the-idea between residential systems, which have traditionally been all about entertainment, security, automation, lighting, and networking, and enterprise systems,... Read More The End of Optical Storage? It's Here I wasn't surprised to read this article in Computerworld, discussing Sony's shutting down of its optical drive (CD, DVD, and Blu-Ray) unit next year. Read More
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