25 weirdest things in the ‘Internet of Things’

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In this Issue BYOD Lawsuits Loom as Work Gets Personal INSIDER Microsoft faces a loss of relevance What the man behind HP's new internal IT plan has in mind New photos purport to show rear shell of rumored low-cost iPhone Intel's mobile transition struggles are Microsoft's advantage If Android is 'cooler' to younger users, Apple could be in trouble Facebook Home's slow first week is being blown out of proportion Hospital opts for Wi-Fi over GPS in smartphone navigation app INSIDER IT Spending on (Slight) Rise, Mobile Tops the List The best Windows 8 machines you can buy today WHITE PAPER: Trusteer Dealing with Advanced and Targeted Attacks This whitepaper explains how advanced malware challenges traditional defenses to take advantage of the increased exposure of employee endpoints. It reviews the evolution of advanced targeted attacks and the various approaches used to address them. Learn More. BYOD Lawsuits Loom as Work Gets Personal Will BYOD lead to a rash of lawsuits from employees who feel violated? Or maybe a headline-grabbing, class-action lawsuit? Your company better make sure it has an explicit terms-of-use BYOD agreement. Here are ways companies can protect themselves. Read More INSIDER Microsoft faces a loss of relevance Microsoft took another hard knock this month when top tech researchers laid much of the blame for dwindling first-quarter PC sales at the feet of the beleaguered Windows 8 operating system. Insider (registration required) Read More What the man behind HP's new internal IT plan has in mind As someone who spent billions with HP over 20 years while in IT leadership roles at Boeing and Verizon Wireless, John Hinshaw knew the big hardware, software and services company from the outside as well as anyone. In the year and a half since becoming executive vice president of technology and operations at HP, he's been putting that knowledge to use on the inside. Read More WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc. Holistic Service Management is Critical to the Growth of IT This paper looks at new approaches to service delivery management to allow IT organizations to deliver better service quality, performance and user experience, and to be more predictive with application performance management and network performance management. Learn More. New photos purport to show rear shell of rumored low-cost iPhone The photo below purports to be of Apple's rumored low cost iPhone. The leak comes courtesy of case manufacturer Tactus, who earlier in the week also released photos which allegedly showed the front and rear casing parts for the 5th generation iPad. The photo depicts an iPhone with what appears to be a plastic shell, which of course is in line with what previous rumors have suggested. Read More Intel's mobile transition struggles are Microsoft's advantage Read More If Android is 'cooler' to younger users, Apple could be in trouble From what I've seen, Android may be winning the war against Apple's iPhone in the key battleground demographic of teenage males. I witnessed this firsthand yesterday when I went with my teenage son to buy him a new phone. Given a candy store full of choices, the iPhone seemed old, slow and not cool compared to some of the hot new Android based models available. Read More WHITE PAPER: PhoneFactor Phones Become the Leading Multi-Factor Authentication Device According to a leading analyst firm, phone-based authentication will comprise 61% of the multi-factor authentication market by the year 2014. This paper will address the key drivers for this market shift away from security tokens and includes real-world case studies from organizations that have made the move to phone-based authentication. Learn More Facebook Home's slow first week is being blown out of proportion There has been some discussion about the meaning of Facebook Home's relatively slow first-week download performance. The results: 500,000 downloads in five days. However, the largely negative sense around the first-week response doesn't appear to be shared at Facebook. Last week, in response to questions about download targets for Home, Facebook's Engineering VP Cory Ondrejka indicated that the... Read More Hospital opts for Wi-Fi over GPS in smartphone navigation app Miami Children's Hospital recently launched a free iPhone app that uses Wi-Fi triangulation to help patients and their families find their way around the medical center. Read More INSIDER IT Spending on (Slight) Rise, Mobile Tops the List Forty-eight percent of the CIOs surveyed expect to increase spending this year, up slightly from this time last year. Mobile, business intelligence, and cloud infrastructure and services are the most cited categories. Read More The best Windows 8 machines you can buy today We've had about six months to play with Windows 8 (like it or not) and with the first generation of hardware designed for the new OS. So now, with PCs based onA Intel's Haswell CPUA poised on the horizon, it's time to take stock of the best Windows 8 hardware available today.A You may be able to snap one up for a bargain-basement price as the industry clears out inventory in anticipation of second-genA machines. Read More
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