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Monday, August 2, 2010

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

LATEST MOBILE AND WIRELESS NEWS
- Smartphone Death Match: iPhone 4 Versus Droid X
- Social Media Tops E-Mail Popularity
- Twitter Launches 'Who To Follow' Feature
- Slideshow: RFID In Healthcare
- Barnes & Noble Pushes Nook, Expands Store Presence
- Samsung's Record Profits Driven By Chips, LCD
- Ballmer Guarded On Windows Phone 7 Prospects
- Nokia, Samsung, LG Lead Mobile Phone Growth
- 4G To Drive Wireless Infrastructure Spending Rebound

ANALYTIC REPORTS
- Leveraging Virtualization For Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery
- Mobile Management Policies

WHITEPAPERS
- Securely Meet Pent Up Demand for Mobile Security
- Understanding the State of Mobile Security

TODAY'S MOST POPULAR STORIES @ TECHWEB.COM
- Researcher Intercepts GSM Cell Phones During Defcon Demo
- Most SSL Sites Poorly Configured
- Internet Infrastructure Reaches Long-Awaited Security Milestone
- Jury Exacts $32M Penalty From ISPs For Supporting Criminal Websites
- AT&T Announces New Managed Security Features

WEBCASTS
- Road Map To Efficiently Sharing Document-Based Information

RESOURCES AND EVENTS
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TODAY'S TOP STORY

- Smartphone Death Match: iPhone 4 Versus Droid X
Our mobile expert pits the Apple iPhone 4 against the Motorola Droid X to name the better enterprise smartphone.
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- Social Media Tops E-Mail Popularity
Nielsen study finds U.S. users dedicate nearly one-quarter of Internet time to social networks, with Facebook far ahead of the pack.
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- Slideshow: RFID In Healthcare
Wi-Fi RFID is being used in many healthcare facilities to track patients, staff and expensive medical gear. Clinicians use it to locate important mobile medical testing equipment quickly, monitor confused patients wandering through hallways, and assist in asset management and patient flow.
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- Twitter Launches 'Who To Follow' Feature
"Suggestions for You" is based on algorithms built by the site's user relevance team to help users find others with similar interests.
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- Barnes & Noble Pushes Nook, Expands Store Presence
Nook-dedicated "boutiques" with staffed demonstration tables featuring demo models, video displays and accessories will occupy a prominent space in B&N stores starting this fall.
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- Samsung's Record Profits Driven By Chips, LCD
Mobile phone sales were up 22% in the second quarter, but average unit price declined as did operating profit from Samsung's telecommunications unit.
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- Ballmer Guarded On Windows Phone 7 Prospects
Microsoft CEO says the company is not going to restore its reputation in the phone market overnight.
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- Nokia, Samsung, LG Lead Mobile Phone Growth
Mobile phone sales increased almost 15% in the second quarter, according to IDC, with Latin America and Asia Pacific projected to drive smartphone growth.
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- 4G To Drive Wireless Infrastructure Spending Rebound
Carriers deploying LTE 4G networks is expected to spur global capital spending on wireless infrastructure in 2011 after two years of declines, according to iSuppli.
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ANALYTIC REPORTS
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- Leveraging Virtualization For Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery
Business continuity and disaster recovery have long been sore points for IT. Now that server virtualization is widespread and with VDI about to go mainstream, can we leverage these technologies to make true continuity a reality -- or at least make recovering from disaster faster and less expensive?
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- Mobile Management Policies
Given the increasing mobilization of enterprise applications, it's time to put policies in place to ensure proper governance and keep costs under control. Follow our guidelines.
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- Securely Meet Pent Up Demand for Mobile Security
Lax security for mobile IT is no longer acceptable. Discover how to manage mobile security beyond the universe of BlackBerry users.
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- Understanding the State of Mobile Security
Consumers continue to express concern over using their mobile devices to conduct transactions, but these fears are born more of perception than reality. The security controls engaged today to mitigate risk at this level are substantial and effective. Get the facts on the true state of mobile messaging security.
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TODAY'S MOST POPULAR STORIES @ TECHWEB.COM
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- Researcher Intercepts GSM Cell Phones During Defcon Demo
In the wake of pressure from the FCC, security expert demonstrates major GSM hack
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- Most SSL Sites Poorly Configured
Half of all SSL servers run older, insecure version of SSL; attacks against HTTPS browser sessions detailed at Black Hat
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- Internet Infrastructure Reaches Long-Awaited Security Milestone
The DNS root is now officially signed with security protocol DNSSEC -- next comes development, penetration-testing of the technology
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- Jury Exacts $32M Penalty From ISPs For Supporting Criminal Websites
'Landmark case' indicates that ISPs may be held liable if they know about criminal activity on their customers' Websites and fail to act
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- AT&T Announces New Managed Security Features
AT&T Security Center portal enables customers to perform a multitude of network management and administrative tasks
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- Road Map To Efficiently Sharing Document-Based Information
Hear how Global Aerospace has crafted a strategy to stay ahead of the curve by taking a global approach to managing content and content-centric processes. Learn how the appropriate ECM solution can provide insurance companies with an efficient, cost-effective way to manage and share critical content and processes, as well as help organizations successfully address regulatory requirements, security concerns and underwriting challenges.

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Upshot of the WPA2 brouhaha
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Wi-Fi WPA2 vulnerability FAQ
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Aerohive set to upgrade OS
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IBM will develop technology to monitor and analyze the state of buildings, roads, water lines and other urban infrastructure in a new laboratory it is opening with Carnegie Mellon University. Read More

Bad guys could read RFID passports at 217 feet, maybe a lot more
LAS VEGAS -- Radio frequency ID tags embedded in U.S. passports can be read hundreds of feet away, potentially making it inexpensive and easy to pick American tourists out of crowds for illicit purposes, "spychips", a demonstration at Black Hat 2010 showed. Read More

Android App Data Theft: Advantage Apple?
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Faster Recovery for Windows Applications and Data
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Juniper Networks this week announced it is acquiring privately held SMobile Systems, a developer of security software for smartphones and tablets, for $70 million in cash. Read More

Troubleshoot Sluggish or Non-Working Wi-Fi
I'm a big fan of working at offsite locations--meaning my local Wi-Fi-equipped coffee shop. In fact, I'll often spend the afternoon hunkered down at Panera Bread, iced tea in one hand and a French Toast bagel in the other. (It's bad form to set up shop without buying something.) Read More

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RIM mobile phone shipments grew by 40% in the second quarter, tops in an overall market that grew by more than 14% during the period, according to IDC. Read More

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Companies spend 30% more on software licenses than needed.
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Arguing (or not) over WPA2 and Wi-Fi security

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Turner showed his audience of analysts for various investment firms an ad in Business Week magazine of Google's "Gone Google" campaign boasting how the luxury car and SUV makers Jaguar and Land Rover had converted to Google Mail, presumably from Microsoft Exchange. Then Turner showed quotes from a Business Week article of employees of those firms, including this: "It's funny. At Jaguar and Land Rover, we sell ourselves as best-of-breed, but we install the IT equivalent of vinyl seats." Zing! Read More

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Dealing with vendors can be maddening to say the least. One of the reasons is because whenever you find a problem with their DB code they're very reluctant to change it. And to a degree I understand that because they've got regression testing to do to make sure it doesn't break anything else, but very seldom do vendors bother updating their DB code at all. Read More

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Why OpenStack matters to the rest of us
RackSpace's well-coordinated public announcement of OpenStack last week was a refreshing, if not surprising, bit of news. Since the open source movement gained momentum, there has regularly been a viable free alternative in most important software sectors. The industry was just begging for an honest-to-goodness open source presence in the IaaS space, and OpenStack seems prepared to deliver. Read More

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Facebook, nannying, and objectives
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What's in a License?
Most people never take the time to read an End User Licensing Agreement (EULA) when installing or updating their software. For example, here is a link to the Microsoft Vista EULA that you probably skipped right over and a great article on how the EULA prevents people from using their purchased Windows operating system the way they wish. Read More

Shimel's 10 Commandments For Open Core
There has been a lot of discussion recently over so called "open core" business models. Many people don't like the term, but the underlying principles whether called commercial open source, open core or something else are still valid. Here are my 10 Commandments for a successful open core / commercial open source business. Read More

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