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HomeSnap iPhone App Helps House Buyers, Sellers and Nosy Neighbors

|   Whether you’re a nosy neighbor, a real-estate agent, a potential homebuyer or seller, or all of the above, you’re going to want HomeSnap on your iPhone. Just don’t expect it to always be a snap.

How to Get Ice Cream Sandwich on Your Android Phone

|   You don't have to wait for a wireless carrier or handheld maker to release Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for your mobile device. Just follow these three simple steps.

Uppidy Backs Up Texts to the Cloud...and That's About It

|   “C U in a sec.” “Sounds great.” “Running late.” Most SMS missives like these are barely worth reading and definitely not worth saving. But you might want to save some texts, especially those with accompanying photos, in case your smartphone gets lost, stolen,...

Audiophiles Will Love Sennheiser's RS 180 Wireless Headphones

|   Sennheiser's $330 RS 180 wireless headphones don't come cheap, but you'll know exactly what you're paying for when you hear the high-quality audio and feel the comfortable earpads, according to CIO.com blogger Paul Mah.

Android Fragmentation: A Visual Representation

|   Two new graphics help demonstrate just how serious the problem of Android fragmentation is to mobile developers and you, the Android user.

Android Targeted by 75 Percent of All Mobile Malware

|   This week's Android security update spotlights findings from an F-Secure report that suggests Android is by far the leading target of mobile-malware authors, along with a demonstration from a recent conference that showed a number of glaring Android security holes.

iPod Owners: Did You Know You're Suing Apple?

|   Apple has been hit with a class action suit by iPod owners saying that the company has made it unfairly difficult to play songs if they haven't been purchased on iTunes. Unless you opt out, you're part of the suit.

Windows 8 Tablets Due in November: Should You Wait It Out?

|   Tablets and tablet/laptop hybrids running Windows 8 and Intel chips will be here for the holidays. Despite many challenges in the tablet market, a beautifully designed Windows 8 hybrid device could be a game-changer.

The Digital Swiss Army Knife Every Techie Should Own

|   Victorinox's Presentation Master Secure is a Swiss Army Knife for the digital age that features a blade, nail file, screwdriver, encrypted USB 2.0 flash drive and more.

Check It: One in Ten Adults Check-In on Foursquare, LBS?

|   Roughly one in five adult smartphone users "check-in" on location-bases services (LBS), including the popular foursquare location-sharing site, and one in ten adults use LBS, according to a new report. CIO.com's Al Sacco thinks those numbers are dubious. Here's why.

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Cloud computing has emerged as one of the most significant game changers to hit the technology landscape in the past 20 years. With this massive expansion of the cloud, the perception of the IT organization is shifting from a utility player to a change agent. This eBook breaks down five ways progressive organizations are using cloud-based IT Management solutions to help drive innovation and become more strategic, including: adding visibility and analytics, speeding up time-to-value, lowering costs, improving prioritization, and providing a blueprint for future cloud deployments.
Read the white paper to see how IBM helped Citigroup deliver new services and enhancements to their 200 million customers faster.
There are 3 ways to modernize legacy applications: rewrite completely, acquire packaged solutions or migrate existing code. This paper explains why it's best to migrate and how IBM® Rational® software can help.
Accommodating specific lines of business can result in a hybrid ecosystem of applications and servers. The resulting complexity of this architecture makes for an environment that is costly to maintain and difficult to change when addressing new challenges.
This whitepaper will help you to define a mobile device passcode policy. Security managers must attempt to reconcile two opposing goals. They must: 1) create a passcode policy that is strong enough to protect the device if it is lost or stolen, while: 2) not annoying users with needless length or complexity.
This whitepaper, authored by The Radicati Group, looks at the key reasons organizations should consider moving to a cloud-based archiving solution. Email archiving solutions enable organizations to store, monitor, and collect electronic data exchanged by their users to comply with internal policies and regulations.
ATERNITY will showcase a 30-minute demo on how Fortune 500 companies are leveraging its award-winning FPI Platform to deliver a user-centric approach to Proactive IT Management.
For businesses to move forward and tap into the ever-expanding universe of Internet users and network-enabled devices, it's critical to learn how to make the transition to IPv6. Learn the critical steps your organization must take to make a seamless transition-and keep your business world connected.
Learn how IT teams can protect against spear phishing tactics. Harry Sverdlove, chief technology officer of Bit9 offers a frank discussion about spear phishing - the most common technique used in today's advanced attacks.
Learn how to build a solid business case for your migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux so you can run leaner, innovate faster, be more flexible and own the New Now.
Social media isn't about you; it's about everything around you. As you consider how your customers want to communicate with you, social media is something that can't be ignored. But what should your strategy be? Is social media "just another channel?" What kind of a plan makes sense for your contact center and for your customers? Join our experts as they share their insight and research results.
Hardware tokens were a popular method of strong authentication in past years but the cumbersome provisioning and distribution tasks, high support requirements and replacement costs have limited their growth. The additional log-in steps that hardware tokens require and the resulting user frustrations have limited adoption and make them impractical for larger scale partner and customer applications.

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