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BYOD: Time to Adjust Your Privacy Expectations

Mobile payments still slow to catch on in U.S.

Even possible use of NFC with next iPhone is unlikely to rouse interest in touchless payments

Cisco: Global ‘Net traffic to surpass 1 zettabyte in 2016

The Internet will have 2.5 connected devices for every person on earth in 2016, Cisco says

White House launches coordinated effort to battle botnets

Several groups announce plans to work together on new efforts to educate users, share information

Copies of anti-censorship software used in Iran and Syria contain keylogger

Green Simurgh copies distributed from file sharing websites contain a Trojan horse

Gartner predicts huge rise in monitoring of employees’ social media use

Sixty percent of companies will monitor employees' social media use for security breaches by 2015, the analyst says

Sprint gives a date for Nextel iDEN shutdown: Next June

The aging narrowband network could be totally deactivated as early as June 30, 2013, Sprint says

Cool space shot: Venus set to cross Sun

NASA, ESA: Venus won’t pass in front of Sun again till 2117

Scary times ahead for smartphone vendors, says analyst

The underlying issue is that the phone vendors have a massive issue with differentiation

Academia joins in battling Android malware