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Android, iOS Crush BlackBerry Market Share
IDC's worldwide ranking of smartphone platforms sees RIM dip below 10% as Android and iOS continue to make big gains.

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MySocialCloud Stores All Your Social Feeds, URLs, Passwords
Tired of forgetting your password? Startup MySocialCloud will remember it for you and aggregate your social feeds in one convenient dashboard.

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Axis: Enough To Make Yahoo A Contender Again?
Yahoo hopes new Axis mobile browser will help the company regain some of its search ad business glory.

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By The Numbers

What benefits do private clouds offer over public cloud services for federal government agencies?

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Data: InformationWeek Analytics and InformationWeek Government Federal Government Cloud Computing Survey of 216 federal government technology professionals, March 2010.

Blogs

Android, iOS Crush BlackBerry Market Share
IDC's worldwide ranking of smartphone platforms sees RIM dip below 10% as Android and iOS continue to make big gains.

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Axis: Enough To Make Yahoo A Contender Again?
Yahoo hopes new Axis mobile browser will help the company regain some of its search ad business glory.

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Facebook IPO: Strangest Of All Time?
Technology glitches, insane valuations, secret disclosures, and high-frequency trading have all played a part in the Facebook IPO soap opera.

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Android Malware Surges, Botnet Business Booms
McAfee reports thousands of new malware apps targeting Android appeared early this year, along with a steady stream of botnet updates.

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Windows 8 Says Goodbye To F8 Reboots
Windows 8 will display new menu of troubleshooting choices to give users of fast-booting PCs and tablets plenty of time to enter alternate startup...

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Webcasts

InformationWeek Government Cloud Computing Webcast Series
Government agencies must develop cloud computing strategies. To help federal IT pros develop effective implementation plans, we are offering a series of editorial Webcasts to guide you through the process of creating private clouds, from drafting a business plan, to building a cloud platform, to offering cloud services.

Cloud Implementer's Checklist
available NOW on-demand

The Business Case for Government Clouds
available NOW on-demand

Cloud Platform Strategy
available NOW on-demand

These three webcasts will help government IT pros pursue a well-planned approach to the cloud. Register today for the series!

InformationWeek Reports

Cloud Implementer's Checklist
Once your agency has completed the business case for a private cloud, how do you actually move ahead with your data center transformation? Our report provides a practical set of steps to get you there, including a "to do" list that will be helpful to anyone on your IT team who's involved in the project. By the time you're done, your data center should be home to a more flexible, on-demand IT services.

Cloud Compliance in Government
Compute clouds created for government data centers must adhere to a range of specifications designed to support data and system security, privacy, and governance. FISMA, HIPAA, SOX, and SAS 70 are just some of the requirements that have to be taken into account as federal IT pros deploy a shared-services cloud model. In this report, we identify the key specs that need to be factored into any federal cloud architecture.

Government Cloud Platform Strategy
This report analyzes the key IT infrastructure considerations that must be taken into account for implementing cloud services in federal data centers: software/hardware environment, multi-tenancy, security, virtualization, and management tools. We also explain the key important role that APIs play in supporting hybrid scenarios that tap into public cloud services.

The Business Case for Government Clouds
This report assesses usage scenarios, barriers, and other variables that factor into the decision of whether and how to implement cloud computing in federal environments.