Review: Best tools for mobile device management

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	Review: Best tools for mobile device management Mobile device management tools make sense when you are trying to control who can access your enterprise network and applications from particular phones and tablets. But to effectively evaluate these products, you should first identify what you're trying to control: the apps on particular devices, the pairing of a user with his device, the device itself, or the files on each device. Read More WHITE PAPER: Limelight Networks 7 Principles to Improve Web Site Availability Users hate to wait so when your web site doesn't respond the way visitors expect, your business suffers. This guide offers strategies for scaling your web infrastructure to meet web availability and performance SLAs, enhancing both speed and performance (there is a difference), and delivering superior user experience on any device, in any location. Learn More In this Issue US tech companies ask governments to reform surveillance practices Review: LG's G2 is great for geeks iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Dec. 6 Microsoft fails to mention Skype in promises to protect users from NSA surveillance 20 best iPhone/iPad games of 2013 IBM blames ISPs for 'offensive' Internet ... back in 1994 Electric car owner arrested for 'stealing' 5 cents of power WHITE PAPER: New Relic Secure, Reliable & Proven APM for the Enterprise Your organization depends on your web applications to do business -- from customer facing eCommerce,banking or travel applications, to mission-critical applications for your employees or partners. When it comes to performance, visitors' expectations for service and reliability are high. Read Now US tech companies ask governments to reform surveillance practices Eight top tech companies in the U.S. have asked governments around the world to reform surveillance laws and practices, and asked the U.S. to take the lead. Read More Review: LG's G2 is great for geeks After a false start, I was able to evaluate the LG G2 Verizon version, and I liked it. The first attempt failed because I approached it the wrong way, like it was a stock Android phone, and there is too much that is different about the G2. Not bad, just different. Resetting the G2 to factory settings, starting over and letting its help tips lead me exposed a lot about this smartphone. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Application Performance in a World of Cloud and Mobility Cloud, mobility, and networking have shifted the dynamics of application performance. As a result, IT is under more pressure than ever to improve application performance. Learn how to ensure that employees and customers can access applications effectively without being forced to expend more resources on network upgrades. Read more >> iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Dec. 6 Temperatures plunged everywhere in the U.S. last week but not in the iOSphere, where heated speculation and anticipation of the iPhone 6 being able to detect and recognize your face kept spirits buoyant. Though why remains a mystery. Read More Microsoft fails to mention Skype in promises to protect users from NSA surveillance When you think about Microsoft and its major communications products, does Skype not spring to mind? Read More WHITE PAPER: Fortinet High Performance Data Center Firewall Survey With Data Centers consolidating and virtualizing, the core infrastructure is upgrading to 10G, 40G and even 100G. The Firewall must keep pace with these changes otherwise it becomes a bottleneck. Does your Firewall have the horsepower to keep up? View now >> 20 best iPhone/iPad games of 2013 Puzzles, adventure games, dungeon crawlers, and more fun for your favorite iOS device (during off-work hours, of course). Read More IBM blames ISPs for 'offensive' Internet ... back in 1994 1994: It was a simpler time, when IBM sold an operating system called OS/2 version 3.0 (a.k.a. OS/2 Warp) and corporate lawyers could plausibly imagine people venturing onto the Internet and being shocked - shocked! - to find "objectionable" content there. Read More Electric car owner arrested for 'stealing' 5 cents of power Not since Arlo Guthrie found himself behind bars in the "Alice's Restaurant Masacree" has an alleged miscreant been locked up over so little: Demonstrating a shocking lack of common sense, police in Georgia recently arrested a man for "stealing" electricity from a school where he plugged his car in for 20 minutes during his son's tennis match. Read More
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