How Mobile, BYOD and younger workers are reinventing IT

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	How Mobile, BYOD and younger workers are reinventing IT IT departments and the duties of their staff haven't changed much in recent years. But the rise of mobile, the bring-your-own-device trend and a new generation of workers is about to change all that. Ryan Faas explains. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: RIM Introducing BlackBerry Mobile Fusion Now all personal and corporate-owned BlackBerry® smartphone and BlackBerry® PlayBook™ devices can seamlessly access business data and applications on a single, secure management platform. Soon, Apple® iOS and Google® Android™ devices will be able to do the same. Learn how this new approach will end mobile chaos at blackberry.com/mobilefusion. In this Issue 6 tools to tame digital distraction Smartphone users hot for social networking, e-commerce Quad-core smartphones and tablets will soon get LTE Astrolabe withdraws copyright suit over Internet time zone database Small-cell, Wi-Fi backers advancing their technology Enterprise cloud issues: Complete coverage Microsoft Visual Studio 11 embraces DevOps U.S. patent authorities weigh against Oracle claims in Android suit FTC reaches $359 million settlement over 'free' trial offers Darlene Storm: Google Glasses: Android smartphone augmented reality for your eyeballs? IT Blogwatch: Obama privacy pact is toothless, misguided RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: RIM Introducing BlackBerry Mobile Fusion Now all personal and corporate-owned BlackBerry® smartphone and BlackBerry® PlayBook™ devices can seamlessly access business data and applications on a single, secure management platform. And soon, iOS and Android devices will be able to do the same. Find out how this new approach will end mobile chaos. Visit blackberry.com/mobilefusion 6 tools to tame digital distraction It's no secret that social media and other online sites are concentration killers. These 6 tools help you keep your focus in a noisy digital world. Read More Smartphone users hot for social networking, e-commerce According to a comScore report released Thursday, some 64.2 million Americans access social networks on a smartphone. Read More Quad-core smartphones and tablets will soon get LTE Nvidia has partnered with modem chip makers GCT Semiconductor and Renesas Mobile to make it easier to build LTE (Long-Term Evolution) smartphones and tablets using its quad-core Tegra 3 processor, the company said on Thursday. Read More Astrolabe withdraws copyright suit over Internet time zone database A copyright lawsuit targeting the administrators of a key time zone database used widely in operating systems, applications and to set computer clocks, has been withdrawn by the company that filed it. Read More Small-cell, Wi-Fi backers advancing their technology Wi-Fi hotspots and small cellular radios could make life easier for both consumers and mobile operators, and powerful backers are lining up this week to show how they can maximize that potential. Read More WEBCAST: Autonomy Understand Your Data: The Future of Backup and Archiving Join us to hear the impact of private and public cloud solutions, "big data" and your choices while market evolves. Learn More Enterprise cloud issues: Complete coverage News, opinion, reviews and how-to articles to make your cloud journey that much easier. Read More Microsoft Visual Studio 11 embraces DevOps Sensing the growing interest in DevOps, Microsoft will incorporate a number of new tools in its next edition of Visual Studio that will allow developers to work more closely with operations personnel. Read More U.S. patent authorities weigh against Oracle claims in Android suit An ongoing series of reviews by U.S. patent authorities has led to a new series of adverse rulings against Oracle's Java patent and a copyright lawsuit against Google over the Android mobile OS, according to a filing late Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Read More FTC reaches $359 million settlement over 'free' trial offers The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reached a suspended US$359 million settlement with a Canadian businessman and his companies for charging customers for supposedly free trial offers. Read More Darlene Storm: Google Glasses: Android smartphone augmented reality for your eyeballs? There's not a lot of choices for Android smartphone users once Google's new privacy policy kicks in and all Google services are combined into one massive data-mining pit. Perhaps Android mobile device users should embrace the madness and the emerging technology such as predictive texting pulled from your Gmail contacts or augmented reality with Terminator-style Google glasses? Read More IT Blogwatch: Obama privacy pact is toothless, misguided Obama's White House proposals to beef up people's privacy protection have been embraced by Google, Apple, Microsoft, and the like. But, in IT Blogwatch, bloggers aren't so sure that everything in the garden is rosy. Read More
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