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Steve Jobs: The FBI File
Jobs had Department of Defense Top Secret clearance, though it's not clear why.
Webcam Bug Enables Virtual Home Invasions
Trendnet releases firmware updates to prevent home security cameras from being accessed without a password.
iPad 3 Unveil Set For Early March
Apple has scheduled an event in San Francisco to reveal the next-generation iPad. Will LTE be on board?
Free Storage In Cloud's Secret: Leftovers
Startup Symform offers up to 200 GBs free using a network of participants' excess capacity.
Tablets In Business: Hard Lessons From Early Adopters 
From garbage trucks to cruise ships, companies are putting iPads and Android tablets to work. Here's what they're learning.
Tablet Shootout: Which Fits Your Enterprise?
Take a close look at six tablet options, from Apple to Android, with a focus on pros and cons for enterprise users.
VMware Rapidly Expands Cloud Partner Network
VMware users who want to run virtualized workloads in the cloud now have 94 cloud service providers to choose from in a wide variety of worldwide...
Cisco Cius Hopes To Ride BYOD Wave
Cisco has high hopes that begrudging acceptance of BYOD will boost its own work-minded tablet. But one analyst says the networking giant is...
How Samsung Screwed Up Its Super Bowl Ad
Call it the stylus snafu: Samsung's over-the-top Super Bowl commercial failed to resonate with viewers and earned widespread mocking on Twitter....
Steve Appleton, Survivor
The man who led the improbable little startup called Micron Technology leaves a big legacy.
Nicira OpenFlow: Networking's Next Big Thing?
$40-million startup emerges with OpenFlow platform for virtualizating the network as effectively as servers.
SoftLayer: A New Kind Of Cloud Service
SoftLayer's customers can move data with the click of a button from virtual servers to physical and back, whenever they choose, in SoftLayer data...
Vblocks' Secret Sauce: Simplicity
Take a peek at why CSC, just the latest fan of VBlocks, used the virtualization technology to build eight cloud data centers.
How IT Views RIM's Future: Exclusive Research
IT professionals have strong feelings about RIM, its products, and its plight. But the real issue is end user device preference.
Motorola Tablet Goof: 4 Security Lessons For Users
Motorola accidentally shipped 100 refurbished tablets with old customer data still intact. Here's what you can do to ensure your information isn't...
iPhone App Contains Secret Tethering Capability
By entering the codes "1984" and "31337" in iRandomizer Numbers, you can create a sharable Internet connection using your iPhone.
Kinect For Windows Adds Gesture Recognition To PCs, Laptops
Microsoft cosponsors algorithm contest with $200,000 pot to spur development of gesture-based games and other apps.
3 Hot Gadgets: Basis Watch, HP Ultrabook, Lytro Camera
Check out three compelling devices, from a fitness gadget to a ground-breaking camera, recently featured on our Valley View web TV show.
2 Ways To Ease Hadoop Growing Pains
EMC Isilon and RainStor address enterprise gaps in the open source Apache Hadoop framework.
Do iPads Belong At Sporting Events?
You can bring your iPad to the Super Bowl. Should you be allowed to?
RIM BlackBerry 10 Image Leaks
RIM 'London' BlackBerry 10 picture shows no keyboard; BlackBerry 7 platform wins security certification for U.S. and Canadian government employees.
Amazon Grows Revenue, Keeps Cloud Numbers Hidden
As Amazon reported a 35% jump in revenue, it dodged key questions about Kindle Fire and AWS cloud services--namely, whether AWS is helping...
iPhone 5 Could Be Game-Changer For Mobile Payments
Some developers are betting the next Apple iPhone will have NFC capability and pave the way for mobile payment technology to finally take off.
Oracle Loses One To HP In Itanium Saga
HP wins on one ruling, but a judge denies both companies' requests to seal documents tied to the ongoing HP-Oracle Itanium case.
Apple Now Top PC Maker, Report Says
iPad sales pushed Apple well ahead of Wintel giants like Hewlett-Packard and Dell in Q4, according to research.
Vblocks: Data Center Hope, Or Hype?
Cisco, EMC, and VMware have supplied a string of high-profile data centers with these special packages--rackmount servers packed with memory and...
10 Tablet Tricks To Try
Do you know your tablet can also act as a teleprompter, whiteboard, heart rate monitor, or even an emergency Windows 7 machine?
Smartphones: The New Fixture In Bathrooms
Three-quarters of cell phone owners now conduct business while conducting business in the lavatory.
Nimbus SSD Competes On Price With Hard Drives
E-Series solid state drive array brings enterprise features such as scalability, fault tolerance, and high availability at $10 per gigabyte.
Will Microsoft Port Kinect To Asus Notebooks?
Windows 8 prototype may be among the first to incorporate hands-free control technology originally developed for Xbox 360.
Samsung Galaxy Note: The Next Big Thing?
AT&T hopes hybrid device with 5.3-inch screen will entice customers who think buying both a smartphone and a tablet are overkill.
Are There Too Many Storage Solutions?
It's a challenge to sort through the maze of storage products to find a solution to your problem--but it's better than not having choices.
Smartphone Adoption Higher In Europe
More U.S. consumers hold on to feature phones and dumb phones. Are U.S. carriers to blame?
Kindle Fire Sales Hit 6 Million In Q4
Amazon's Android-based tablet expected to boost year-end revenues, which the company is slated to report Tuesday.
Commodity Hardware Meets Mission-Critical Apps: Success Story
Here's how First American Title Insurance saved $800,000 by exchanging its HP Superdome hardware for commodity x86 servers, and resisted pressure...
Cisco Rules The Data Center, But Disruptive Forces Loom
IT pros rate Cisco as the best-performing data center provider in our vendor evaluation, but its hold isn't secure.
Smartphone, Tablet Races: 4 Telling Numbers
Hardware makers and network operators provided insight on adoption of the hottest mobile platforms--Android and iOS--via financial reports this...
Stolen iPhone Saved By iCloud
New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police follow Find My iPhone directions to nab a suspect and recover an iPhone in the space of...
Nokia Numbers Show Microsoft’s Mobile Madness
Every Windows Phone 7 device Nokia shipped in Q4 cost Microsoft $250, minus a royalty. But Microsoft is burning this cash with good reason.
VMware Vs. The Old School: Data Center Management Battle
With vCenter Operations Suite 5, VMware takes steps to manage the burgeoning virtual machine environment in a more advanced manner than...
RIM CEO: We're Not Baking Cookies
Research In Motion's new CEO says his earlier comments regarding change at the BlackBerry maker were a bit misunderstood. Instead of taking the...
Apple iPad: Happy 2nd Birthday
Apple changed the way we think about computing and digital devices--again--when it introduced the iPad tablet in early 2010. Take a look back and...
Microsoft Xbox 720 Details Trickle Out?
Microsoft's upcoming entertainment and cloud services platform console could run seven times faster and dish up Blu-Ray. But gamers may not like...
Apple iPad Sales Show Rivals No Threat
Apple sold more than 15 million iPads during the holiday quarter, and CEO Tim Cook predicts tablets will outsell PCs in the future.
Apple's Record Revenue: By The Numbers
As Apple reports its highest quarterly revenue and earnings ever, a few numbers pop. One example: Apple has $97.6 billion in cash on hand, enough...
Banned Android App Store: Enterprises Beware
A well-known Android developer plans to create a store for applications that Google has banned from the Android Market. Proceed with caution.
Ultrabooks: The Next Big Thing In Notebooks
Aren't notebooks and PCs in general on the way out as we adopt tablet and touch interfaces and everything else moves to the cloud? Not so fast.
Hackers Jailbreak iPad 2, iPhone 4S
It took 10 months for hackers to crack iOS 5.0.1. Workplaces that allow bring your own device need to act immediately to avoid potential security...
Apple's iBooks Author Software: Just Say No
Buried in the iBooks Author software license agreement is a contractual requirement that gives Apple considerable power over content that you...
Microsoft, Intel Face Their Kodak Moment
Unless they embrace radical change, the once dominant Wintel partners will follow the photography giant's unenviable path into decline.
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This Week's Issue
Technology Whitepapers
- Creating the Enterprise-Class Tablet Environment - by Yankee Group
- How To Regain IT Control In An Increasingly Mobile World - by BlackBerry
- The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet's Good Bones - by BlackBerry
- Red Alert: Why Tablet Security Matters - by BlackBerry
- New Visual and Wizard-Driven Paradigms for Exploring Data and Developing Analytic Workflows
