BlackBerry blacklists 'Pooh' gang | McAfee heart attack?

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	Why did BlackBerry blacklist the 'Pooh' gang? A report surfaced earlier this week contending that BlackBerry OS 10 will include a list of 106 prohibited passwords designed to prevent the clueless from choosing the likes of 123456, blackberry, or the ever-popular "password" as their password. However, a RIM spokesman told me today that the list actually applies to BlackBerry ID universally, not only the upcoming operating system, and "has been... Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T Top 10 Considerations for cloud computing As business users push for faster and easier ways to roll out applications, cloud usage is on the rise. As a result, many cloud projects are initiated outside the realm of IT – without the clear requirements or measurable objectives. "Top 10 Considerations for Cloud Computing" provides a checklist for taking a more strategic approach to cloud. 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WhatsUp Gold provides ONE dashboard to visualize, isolate & resolve wireless problems before they impact your organization. Stop being the last to know about your wireless issues- Try WhatsUp Gold free for 30 days! The year in madly cool robots From giants to itsy-bitsy shape shifters, robots are hot Read More McAfee reportedly may have had a heart attack Multiple media outlets are reporting that John McAfee has suffered a heart attack ... and perhaps two. ABC News has him being taken to a hospital: Software millionaire John McAfee has been taken to a Guatemala City hospital via ambulance after suffering a possible heart attack at the detention center where he is being held. Read More IT industry could be blindsided by fiscal cliff As Congress continues to debate how it should prevent the federal government and national economy from plummeting off the so-called fiscal cliff at the end of the year, many technology companies - particularly smaller businesses and startups - may be unprepared for the ensuing changes. Read More 12 essential Windows 8 keyboard shortcuts Get over it. Windows 8 is different from Windows 7, which means learning new stuff including keyboard shortcuts that can save valuable time vs accomplishing the same thing using touchscreen commands. Read More What if Linux went closed source? Would you still use it? When was the last time you downloaded source code? Seriously. Take a look at the applications you currently have running – your web browsers, office suites, terminals, graphics editors and the like. Have you ever downloaded the source code for any of them, made a change and recompiled? (Okay, all of you Linux-From-Scratch and Gentoo-ers can put your hands down.) Read More ERP: Oracle vs. SAP vs. The Upstarts As 2012 comes to a close, the ERP software market's biggest players, Oracle and SAP, are seeing their long rivalry become a stalemate, while they face a common set of enemies in the form of upstart ERP vendors based in the cloud, such as NetSuite and Workday. Read More Pandora shares plummet despite increased revenue and growing audience Shares of Pandora have plummeted in the last two days after the mobile Internet radio company issued a dissapointing forecast for next quarter's earnings. On Wednesday, shares dropped by nearly 18% down to $7.80 a share and as of Thursday afternoon are trading at $7.95 a share. At the root of the drop were worrying comments made by Pandora executive Joe Kennedy who explained that given the current... Read More Apple vs. The World: Apple's definitive legal battles Here you'll find a list of some of the most important, influential, notable, and even downright silly legal battles that Apple has been involved in since first forming in 1976. Read More How to buy the best laptop in the age of Windows 8 Laptops used to be simple. Almost all of them had a clamshell design, with a display that folded onto the keyboard. You picked the laptop you needed based on factors like price, weight, and performance. But it's different today: New form factors, different operating systems, and disparate user needs conspire to make choosing a laptop a complex chore. Read More Motorola streamlines Wi-Fi access with social networking accounts Motorola Solutions has unveiled a pair of quasi-cloud services that make it simpler for IT groups to set up secure connections for guest Wi-Fi users, including those with personally-owned devices, on corporate or retail wireless LANs. Read More 'Creative' is king of LinkedIn buzzwords in 2012 So much for being "creative": It remains the most overused LinkedIn profile term for the second year in a row among U.S.-based professionals as well as those worldwide. Read More
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