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Jailed for jailbreaking: New law could land you in the slammer
I know why you're excited: You can't wait for your iDevice to update to iOS 6.1 which was just released. Now Siri will be able to misunderstand what movie you want to see and present you with a link to Fandango. Or she may, as usual, think you want to dial the number of the nearest Chinese restaurant. And thus does technology march onward. Read More

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The Risks of Social Media & What Can Be Done to Manage Them
Learn about the risks and rewards of social media when used in a corporate setting along with the need for detailed use polices, technology to enforce those policies, and monitoring and archiving. Read Now

First Look: BlackBerry 10 smartphones
Our initial glimpse at RIM's (er, make that BlackBerry's) attempt to claw its way back into the smartphone market Read More

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BaaS: It's a crowded (and young) market
Back-end as a service offers standard features to drop into your apps, so your developers can spend their time on the most strategic pieces. Read More

Tech Leaders Applaud Immigration Bill's Focus on H-1B Visas, STEM Workers
As momentum for immigration reform quickly builds in the new Congress, leading players in the tech sector rally behind first bill to drop for easing restrictions on access to highly skilled workers. Read More

Opinion: Re-invented BlackBerry reaches for "hyperconnected" users
In a keynote that was rife with technopop music and contrived videos -- and woefully short on details -- Research in Motion launched two new smartphones in its bid to restore its fortunes in the smartphone market. Read More

NASA: Feb. 15 asteroid fly-by will buzz Earth closer than many satellites
NASA says an asteroid about half the size of a football field will blow past Earth on Feb 15 closer than many man-made satellites. NASA added that while the asteroid, designated 2012 DA14 has no change of striking Earth, since regular sky surveys began in the 1990s, astronomers have never seen an object so big come so close to our planet. "This is a record-setting close approach," says Don Yeomans... Read More

Cisco, competitors see healthy data center switching market
Cisco and its data center switching rivals should see some healthy growth over the next four or fives years. The data center switch market will approach $16 billion by 2017, a compounded annual growth rate of almost 10% over the $10 billion it achieved in 2012, according to Crehan Research. Read More

Set up Windows 8 as a home server
If you have multiple PCs in your home or small office, you can save time and look professional by storing your documents and media on one PC and using network sharing to access them across all your computers and devices. This prevents you from having to store duplicate copies of files and reduces confusion when trying to find which PC a file is stored on. Additionally, you only reallyA need to worry about backing up one PC (though for safety's sake you shouldA alwaysA back up everything on a regular basis.) Read More

Kaspersky Lab adds mobile and system management to its business security offering
Kaspersky Lab on Wednesday made its bid to reduce the complexity associated with managing IT security processes in corporate environments, with a new product that combines the company's anti-malware technology with new mobile and system management tools. Read More

BlackBerry Z10 hands on
BlackBerry's Z10 is one of two handsets running the company's new mobile operating system BlackBerry 10. Follow reporter Nick Barber on Twitter @nickjb Read More

"iPhone Killer" BlackBerry 10 is here: iPhone is Dead!
While the many "stoked" BlackBerry executives and supporters on hand for their big BlackBerry 10 splash today happily patted each other on their backs, I had to look to social media to find anyone calling the new Q10 and Z10 smartphones Apple iPhone killers or raising the topic, anyway. Read More

ZTE to launch Firefox OS smartphone at MWC
Chinese phone maker ZTE is planning to launch a smartphone based on Mozilla's Firefox OS at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month. Read More

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