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Huawei: Separating fact from fiction
Chinese telecom provider Huawei was hardly a household word a few months ago, but it's had lots of negative publicity of late, from an Economist cover story to a 60 Minutes piece. Read More


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Which countries have the iPhone 5 … and which don't
Apple's homepage is actually 126 or so different homepages worldwide. And Apple makes these country-or-region-specific sites easily accessible to all via this page. Read More

Looking to cloud shop? Marketplaces are the new place to do it
A few weeks ago Amazon Web Services announced a marketplace for its cloud services in which users could order a variety of applications to run on the company's cloud servers. Not surprisingly, other cloud providers are now rolling out almost the exact same feature, with Savvis being the latest. Read More


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A better reason not to use Huawei routers: Code from the '90s
Security researcher Felix "FX" Lindner has a more compelling reason to steer clear of routers from Huawei Technologies than fears about its ownership. Read More

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Huawei, ZTE ban is questionable, given its impact
A congressional committee recently published the results of an 11-month investigation of the two highly controversial Chinese vendors ZTE and Huawei. The results of the probe have been widely disseminated in the media, including a front-page story in the Wall St Journal and a 15-minute piece on 60 minutes. Read More


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LinkedIn, looking to lure more of its 175 million users to visit its website regularly, has begun inviting members to follow a cast of 150 "influential thought leaders." Read More

U.S. banks warned of another attack threat
Just as one type of attack against U.S. banks has subsided, the banks are being warned to get ready for another, called "Project Blitzkrieg," aimed at online theft. Read More

IT workers staying put, CIOs staying longer
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Research in Motion CIO Robin Bienfait's last name means "well done" in French. She's hoping those two words apply to BlackBerry 10 smartphones once they ship in the first quarter of 2013. Read More

Patches for critical Word flaw, RSA key length, clerical timestamp code-signing error
There was a somewhat strange security update rolled out on Patch Tuesday, being that it does not address a security flaw, but rather a clerical timestamp error on binaries; this code-signing error will cause the digital signature on files produced and signed by Microsoft to expire and become invalid prematurely. Because "of the two k Read More

 
 
 

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