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In honor of what would have been Steve Jobs' 57th birthday: Apple's greatest hits under Jobs

The BYOD struggle: From writing custom apps to defining security | Startup CrowdStrike promises 'game-changer' in fight vs. advanced persistent threats

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In honor of what would have been Steve Jobs' 57th birthday: Apple's greatest hits under Jobs
12 noteworthy innovations rolled out under Jobs' leadership at Apple Read More


RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Research In Motion

Introducing BlackBerry Mobile Fusion
Now all personal and corporate-owned BlackBerry® smartphone and BlackBerry® PlayBook™ devices can seamlessly access business data and applications on a single, secure management platform. Soon, Apple® iOS and Google® Android™ devices will be able to do the same. Learn how this new approach will end mobile chaos at blackberry.com/mobilefusion

WEBCAST: Compuware

Why Server Virtualization Demands and End-user's Perspective
Join Compuware and featured guest Forrester Research, Inc. in this webcast to understand Forrester's definition of the user experience network or UxN and why dynamic virtualized environments demand end user monitoring. Register now.

The BYOD struggle: From writing custom apps to defining security
Companies are grappling with the question of whether and how to let employees use their own smartphones and tablets at work even as a huge push is being made to set up internal "app stores" of approved and custom-built corporate mobile apps. Read More

Startup CrowdStrike promises 'game-changer' in fight vs. advanced persistent threats
Startup CrowdStrike made its debut this week, promising to have a security product out by the second quarter that will target the so-called advanced persistent threat (APT) problem in which stealthy intruders infiltrate networks to steal sensitive data for business or political reasons. Read More

Five bone-headed (and potentially deadly) ways stupid people will use Google Goggles
By now I'm sure you've heard about Google's new experimental glasses that will run on Android and will beam text and images directly to your eyeballs. The New York Times' Nick Bilton has a good description: Read More

Auction of teleportation device proves there's no place like home
Don't tell me this isn't about technology until you invent a better way to get a pigtailed farm girl and her Yorkshire Terrier from The Land of Oz all the way back to Kansas. Read More


WHITE PAPER: NetIQ

Streamlining IT Operations with Business Service Management
This IDC Technology Spotlight examines the benefits of a business service management practice and tools in response to IT environments becoming more dynamic and complex due to the increased use of virtualization, cloud, SOA, and n-tier application architectures. Learn More

Avast Free Antivirus 7 adds cloud updates, file reputation and remote assistance
Avast Free Antivirus 7 is set to be released on Thursday and will have new features including cloud-based updates, remote assistance and file reputation. Read More

Video now accounts for half of mobile data traffic
Video now accounts for half of all data transferred on mobile networks, up from 40% during the same time last year, according to ByteMobile's first quarter 2012 Mobile Analytics Report. Read More

Hacker steals one million user logins from YouPorn website
A million logins for the hugely popular YouPorn sex site appear to have been leaked after a hacker chanced upon a URL linking to a user list apparently left exposed for several years. Read More

US Government Announces Open Source App Contest
"By challenging developers to leverage government data in new and innovative ways, they'll help businesses fund new activities, learn about and evaluate opportunities in the US and abroad, support education and training, and more," the contest announcement says. Read More


WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel

Benefits of Private Cloud and Infrastructure as a Service
This solution brief will help you understand the benefits of the HP CloudSystem Matrix which provides a unified solotion for physical and virtual environments that's perfectly suited as an IT consolidation platform. Learn more

Google commits Chrome to support 'Do Not Track'
Google will add support for the "Do Not Track" effort to its Chrome browser by the end of this year. Read More

Gone Fishin' at RSA Conference
I apologize that I have not posted as many articles as I usually do this past month. For me this is like the accountants tax season, its RSA Conference time. The RSA Conference and its satellite conferences start this Monday. For anyone in the security industry, RSA is like making the pilgrimage to Mecca. Read More

White House privacy push: Some question the details
The U.S. White House's announcement Thursday that it will encourage online businesses to develop and adopt privacy codes of conduct and push Congress for privacy legislation received mostly positive reviews, although some privacy advocates questioned whether companies would be too involved in writing the rules. Read More

Senators Unveil Cybersecurity Bill to Empower Homeland Security
After years of deliberations and several false starts, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduce cybersecurity overhaul that would authorize the Department of Homeland Security to oversee security at critical infrastructure providers, improve system of sharing information about threats. Read More



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