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Sprint Beefs Up Network For iPhone
Carrier takes action to remedy users' reports of subpar smartphone speeds.
Google Indoor Maps: 6 Uses, Good To Ugly
Google Maps Floor Plans of malls, airports, and the like are mostly about increasing ad revenue. Consider the use cases, from good to perhaps ugly.
Help Wanted 2.0: SMB Recruiting Goes Mobile
Does your recruiting strategy extend to tablets and smartphones? Learn how and why Photobucket reaches out to mobile-savvy candidates
App Allows Radiology Diagnosis Via Tablet, Smartphone
FDA clearance of GE Centricity mobile app lets radiologists use smartphones and tablets to make diagnoses from remote locations or in the field.
RIM Responds To PlayBook Jailbreak
Research In Motion insists its PlayBook tablet is secure, despite claims from security researchers that it has been jailbroken.
Latest Tablet Fans: U.S. Census Bureau
Next census not until 2020, but bureau already working on field data collection via tablet apps.
RIM BlackBerry Fusion: A Swing And A Miss?
RIM's new MDM platform will handle BlackBerry, Android, and Apple iOS devices--but it's arriving too late for some IT shops.
Appirio Social Enterprise Toolkit Links To Chatter
Cloud consulting company Appirio is bundling a greatest hits collection of Salesforce.com Chatter tools for integration and compliance.
10 Silliest Tech Company Names Of 2011
Tech companies have created some of the strangest and funniest company and product names in business. Here's the most recent evidence that this trend is only accelerating.
Android 4.0 Upgrade: Coming Soon To Your Phone?
Don't buy a new Android smartphone unless you know for sure that it will be upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Here's the list.
VMware's Best And Worst Moves Of 2011
Virtualization market leader VMware launched several bold initiatives in 2011--and made several missteps.
Salesforce.com Steps Past CRM, Into Social Marketing
Radian6-powered services help companies capture, decipher, and respond to customer interactions across Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks.
Microsoft Apps Coming To Apple iOS
Microsoft apps like Office, Azure, and SharePoint may soon show up on iOS and Android devices.
Google's Daring Dozen: 12 Big Bets In 2011
Google has played a smart game in 2011, especially with Android, but it hasn't been perfect. We evaluate its main moves in the past year.
Office 365 Gets 30 New Features
Microsoft takes aim at Google Apps with Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) and Mac support, as well as easier-to-manage security tools.
AT&T-T-Mobile Wrangling: What A Waste
Imagine if all the time and money spent on the wheeling and dealing around this merger were channeled into actually creating something of value.
Windows Phone Dwindles To 6% Of U.S. Market
Microsoft's mobile phone efforts dropped 33% from the second quarter to the third in the U.S., while Google surged and Apple held its ground.
Carrier IQ Withdraws Legal Threat Against Security Researcher
Network diagnostic software vendor issues apology to researcher who discovered its application secretly monitoring smartphone users.
5 Resolutions For Better BI in 2012
Make business intelligence easy to use, deploy, afford, administer and embed.
iOS 5.1 Beta Points To New iPhone, iPad
Beta release of iOS 5.1 includes reference codes to unannounced versions of the iPhone and iPad, though new features appear to be scarce.
Windows 8 Tablets: Too Little, Too Late?
Touch-friendly devices running Microsoft's next OS may be more than a year away, leaving some analysts to conclude that Redmond has already lost the tablet market.
RIM Adds iOS, Android To BlackBerry Management Service
Faced with a terminal case of uncoolness of its BlackBerry phones, the company looks to strengthen the appeal of its respected back-end platform.
RIM Set To Manage Android And iOS Devices
For mostly-BlackBerry organizations, RIM's new product offers broad support with a familiar administrative look and feel.
Google+ Hangouts Ready For Business?
Google's powerful, free videochat service may be a business meeting alternative to GoToMeeting or Skype--under very controlled circumstances.
Unofficial Android Build CyanogenMod Gets An Ice Cream Sandwich
New custom edition of Google's latest mobile OS, Android 4.0, might pose security threat to bring-your-own-device outfits.
Twitter Buys Mobile Security Startup Whisper
Two-person development shop created software for secure text and voice communications on Android smartphones.
Private Cloud Choices Grow For SMBs
Public cloud-wary midsize businesses can leverage KnowledgeTree's document management tools for online file sharing and storage.
Windows Phone 7 Usage Shows Small Uptick
More Facebook users are making use of the integration feature in Windows Phone 7, suggesting a small spike in new users for Microsoft's mobile platform.
NSFW - Siri Fails At Couples Therapy
The iPhone 4S's new voice command interface may seem magical, but she can't perform miracles. Don't force her into the middle of your personal problems.
iPhone Flames Out On Australian Flight
It's rare, but it's been known to happen before: an iPhone on an airplane combusted. Nobody was hurt.
NASA Launches Mobile Apps Store
Agency employees and contractors can download apps for smartphones to access internal information, although choices are thin to start.
Microsoft Said To Eye Yahoo Deal, Again
Software maker may be set to revive campaign to acquire all or parts of the online portal, which it tried to buy three years ago.
How Defense IT Will Cope With Billions In Cuts
The Pentagon is betting that spending on technology can save money and help it meet huge cuts in the defense budget that have been ordered and additional cuts that may be on the way.
9 Mobile Health Apps Worth A Closer Look
There's no doubt: Clinicians love their mobile devices. Among many new health apps, here are 9 that healthcare professionals and their patients should investigate.
HTC 'Not Another Nokia' Says CFO
HTC says innovative new products on deck for next year will address investor fears concerning the company's stalled growth.
Mobile's Big Cyber Monday: RIM's Not Merry
Cyber Monday means mobile Monday for many buyers this year. Are you finally ready to trade in your beloved BlackBerry?
Feds Turn To Video Games To Solve Problems
From NASA to National Park Service, agencies research how they can work together to create games to meet social, health, economic, and other challenges.
Cyber Monday: Kindle Fire, iPad 2 Top Tablet Wish Lists
Tablets from Apple and Amazon are the hot products for the 2011 holidays, and the RIM PlayBook's future looks anything but jolly.
USDA Awards $6 Million For Rural Telehealth
Feds award grants for telehealth projects in the Mississippi Delta region as part of a program to help rural facilities adopt health IT.
AT&T Desperate To Save T-Mobile Bid
AT&T appears to be willing to do anything to salvage its plan to acquire T-Mobile USA, despite the roadblocks being thrown in its way by the government.
VMware's Cloud Foundry Ranked Top Developer Platform
New VMware kid on the PaaS block takes "best overall" honors, while Google App Engine is best public and IBM SmartCloud best private cloud platform in Evans Data survey.
Google's Graveyard: Dead Products Of 2011
As CEO Larry Page puts more wood behind fewer arrows, products continue to disappear.
When One Collaboration Tool Can't Do It All
American Water's single-pane-of-glass strategy brings multiple collaboration systems together on the desktop, avoids $3 million systems migration expense.
Microsoft Buys Video Search Engine For $100 Million
VideoSurf gives Redmond technology that helps users sift through movies, TV shows, and other online content.
9 Factors For A Successful Government IT Rollout
GAO outlines strategies that produce cost-effective and well-implemented federal IT investments.
Google Donates Chromebooks To Wounded Warriors
Tech giant gives notebook computers to military hospitals to help vets connect with families and loved ones while healing.
Samsung Ads Poke Fun At Apple Fanboys
Samsung has a little fun at Apple's expense with its new ad campaign. Skewered Apple fanboys, anyone?
Amazon's New Data Center Could Save You Money
With Oregon data center, Amazon Web Services gives West Coast infrastructure-as-a-service customers a 10% price break.
Android Buyers Find Smartphone Update Chaos
After Google releases a new version of Android, the time it takes carriers to update your phone varies wildly right now. One security expert says consumers must vote with their wallets.
T-Mobile Running Out Of Moves
The FCC handed a near-death sentence to AT&T's attempts to acquire T-Mobile USA. What options remain?
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