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5 BYOD Pitfalls and How You Can Avoid Them
Vague policies, rogue apps, zombie phones can doom even the best 'Bring Your Own Device' intentions. But the good news is it's not too late to make game-changing adjustments.
Facebook designing network fabric to meet massive performance needs
With more than a billion monthly active users, it's easy to imagine that most of the data travelling over Facebook's networks is delivering photos, status updates and "likes" to its end users, but that's far from the case.
Twitter buys Spindle to thread in location discovery tools
Twitter has bought Spindle, a search technology company that informs users about what's happening with local businesses and organizations around them.
Report: Microsoft and Nokia talked acquisition
Microsoft and cellphone maker Nokia were in advanced talks about an acquisition of the Finnish company's device business, but the discussions have broken down, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
3D printer creates lithium-ion batteries the size of a grain of sand
Researchers from Harvard and the University of Illinois have printed precisely interlaced stacks of tiny battery electrodes, each less than the width of a human hair.
Intel joins Samsung, Qualcomm in wireless power consortium
Intel has joined the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP), a consortium founded by Qualcomm and Samsung, as the chip maker looks to bring wireless charging to tablets and laptops.
Congress looks to kill NASA's plan to capture an asteroid
House Republican leaders are shooting to get astronauts on the moon and Mars, but they're trying to nix the president's asteroid plans.
Ferromagnetics breakthrough could change storage as we know it
A previously misunderstood magnetic phenomenon has been apparently explained by a paper published on Sunday in Nature Materials – and the explanation could lead to wholesale transformation in magnetic storage.
AT&T to offer NEC Terrain push-to-talk Android smartphone starting Friday
AT&T and NEC have teamed up to launch the NEC Terrain, a ruggedized Android push-to-talk smartphone that goes on sale Friday online for $99.99 and a two-year contract.
Intel chooses sides in wireless power market
Intel has joined The Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP), an industry group that hopes its "flexible wireless power" specification for mobile wireless charging can become an industry standard.
Good riddance Google Reader: Feedly throws switch on alternate RSS service
Feedly today switched on its own RSS API and service, divorcing itself from the soon-to-be-dead Google Reader.
Samsung Galaxy S4 vs. HTC One: 5 Reasons to Choose the GS4
The Samsung Galaxy S4 and the HTC One are two of the hottest smartphones on the market today. But which one is right for you? Different people have very different needs and expectations when they purchase a new smartphone. So I've created two lists to help make that crucial decision. The following list spotlights five areas in which the Samsung Galaxy S4 outperforms the HTC One. For an opposing viewpoint and a look at some ways the HTC One outperforms the Galaxy S4, read "HTC One vs. Samsung Galaxy S4: 5 Reasons to Choose the One." And for my unbiased opinion on the device that offers a better overall experience, check out my related blog post.
Patent-licensing firm files second lawsuit against Motorola Mobility
Intellectual Ventures, a large patent-licensing firm, has filed a second patent-infringement lawsuit against Motorola Mobility while its first patent lawsuit is still pending in a Delaware count.
Countries question Google on Glass privacy
Privacy officials from six countries and the European Commission are pushing Google to answer questions about privacy issues surrounding its digital eyewear called Glass.
NSA spying could mean U.S. tech companies lose international business
It is not just personal information that is being swept into the National Security Agency's (NSA) massive databases. It is corporate data as well. And that could cause some serious international blowback for the U.S., both politically and economically.
Google Glass apps for enterprises coming by early 2014
A company that specializes in Google apps is developing a series of enterprise applications for Google Glass that should be available late this year or early 2014.
Papers please! Microsoft creates second-class citizens with Office iPhone app
Microsoft erred when it decided that the new Office Mobile for iPhone would be available to Office 365 customers but not to those who purchased a traditional "perpetual" license to Office 2013, an analyst argued
Financial servies firm figures out how to do social safely
The freewheeling flow of information on public social media sites may cause many people in conservative, highly regulated industries such as financial services to shudder. But one Canadian firm has taken the plunge, believing its employees can use social tools in a safe and ultimately profitable way.
Many companies are negligent about SAP security, researchers say
SAP has significantly improved the security of its products over the past few years but many of its customers are negligent with their deployments, which exposes them to potential attacks that could cripple their businesses, according to security researchers.
LG:  Production of flexible display smartphone screens to start in Q4
LG will begin mass producing flexible display screens for smartphones in the fourth quarter of this year, according to the Korea Times.
FBI director defends phone surveillance program
A telephone records surveillance program run by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Security Agency raises serious privacy concerns and should be reined in, some U.S. senators said Wednesday.
Oracle, IBM to unwrap new Unix server processors at conference
Demand for mainframe and high-performance Unix servers is falling, but a new wave of SPARC and IBM Power chips for the servers will be unwrapped at the Hot Chips conference in late August.
Say 'cheese,' Earthlings! Spacecraft to snap home planet pic from deep space
NASA's Cassini spacecraft, now flying near Saturn, is turning its cameras back toward Earth today so it can grab a photo of its home planet from almost 900 million miles away
iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending June 18
As last week's Apple WWDC faded in the rear view mirror, the iOSphere hungered for more. And the hunger gave birth to hope, and hope to more rumors, including the one that predicts iPad 5 will be announced this week to foil and foul Samsung’s scheduled London news.
Microsoft launches security bounty programs for Windows 8.1 and IE 11 Preview
Microsoft will pay security researchers for finding and reporting vulnerabilities in the preview version of its Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) browser, for finding novel techniques to bypass exploit mitigations present in Windows 8.1 or later versions and for coming up with new ideas to defend against exploits.
Federal Government Wrestles With Big Data and Sequestration
Despite the challenges of the budget sequestration that went into effect on March 1, federal agencies are pressing forward with big data initiatives, hoping to squeeze big savings out of more efficient use of their data.
NSA defends spying as backlash rages
Mounting backlash against National Security Agency spying practices is now coming from sources as varied as security expert Bruce Schneier, former Reagan-era budget director David Stockman and high-level representatives of European countries.
The panic is over. Facebook is back up
Facebook suffered a service disruption for about four hours Tuesday night, giving users error messages or long response times.
Data wiped from 630 Megaupload servers
LeaseWeb, one of Europe's biggest hosting providers, has wiped 630 servers that contained Megaupload data and countered claims from the company that the file-sharing site wasn't warned.
CERN modernizes IT infrastructure with OpenStack and Puppet
CERN is making the infrastructure that handles the data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) more flexible by upgrading it with OpenStack for virtualization and Puppet for configuration management.

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