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Cool cop tech: 5 new technologies helping police fight crime
Not without controversy, police departments are turning to an array of tech devices including gunshot detection systems and eye-in-the-sky drones to investigate and solve cases. Read More


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Linux skills in demand, wages up
If you work as a Linux developer or system administrator, your pay should be increasing -- and so should your job offers -- according to a new survey of hiring managers. Read More

Adobe confirms new zero-day Flash bug
Adobe on Wednesday patched seven critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player, including one reported by Google researchers that hackers are using in 'active targeted attacks.' Read More

MSN site offers updates on topics trending on Twitter, Facebook
Microsoft's MSN launched its msnNow site that puts together brief summaries on topics that are trending on Facebook, Twitter, Bing, and news site BreakingNews.com on a website accessible on PCs, tablets, and mobile phones. Read More

HP CEO: Google-Motorola deal could close-source Android
WebOS could be an important player in the long run as an open-source mobile OS because Android could become closed with Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility, Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman said. Read More

From CIO.com: Forget Public Cloud or Private Cloud, It's All About Hyper-Hybrid
As organizations increasingly adopt cloud offerings for critical business operations from public and private providers, connecting them all back to the core of the business is becoming a challenge involving complicated integration, orchestration and rules management. Read More


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Is Cloud the Answer to Federal IT Savings?
In this eGuide, Computerworld and its sister publications CIO and Network World have collected interviews and articles that cover some of the biggest issues faced by federal agency IT departments today. Read on to learn about the technology challenges the U.S. government is facing, and how some agencies are dealing with them. Read now.

LightSquared's options to save its network are limited
Though would-be mobile carrier LightSquared says it still wants to find a solution to interference with GPS, its options are limited, industry observers said on Wednesday. Read More

Sony closes deal to buy Sony Ericsson, now Sony Mobile Communications
Sony has completed its purchase of the Sony Ericsson mobile phone joint venture and turned the company into a subsidiary. Read More

MIT event shows the many faces, challenges of big data
The burgeoning tech industry movement around big data is churning up a variety of new applications, but remains an evolving field that faces lingering challenges, judging from an event held Wednesday at a Microsoft research facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Read More

Christopher O'Malley: Can IT measure its own financial performance?
For decades now, IT has been like the metaphorical shoemaker's children. It provides all kinds of analytical tools for other areas to gauge their performance. But when it comes to measuring its own performance in business terms, IT has lagged behind. The issue of IT's inadequate financial accountability is coming to a head for several reasons. One is obviously the weak global economy. When times are tough, everybody is forced to be more diligent about accounting for their spend and their value. Read More

IT Blogwatch: LightSquared: Dead corp walking; FCC foils LTE plan
The FCC has killed LightSquared's hopes of running a terrestrial LTE network on satellite frequency bands. After analyzing the problem of GPS interference, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) said it's a lost cause, so the FCC put a stop to it. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder how we even got this far. Not to mention: Technician-class ham license self-study help... Read More

 
 
 

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