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February 3, 2012

The Android Community Responds to Security Challenges

Android seems to be constantly in the process of discovering and defining itself. That’s part and parcel of both of the specifics of how open source works and, more generally, that a massive deployme... More >

February 2, 2012

Voice Over LTE Set to Roll in 2012

All of the hubbub about Long Term Evolution (LTE) during the past couple of years has been about data. Voice, to date, has not been part of the 4G LTE experience.   That is about to change. The... More >

February 1, 2012

Views Differ on the Dangers of Android Fragmentation

The opinions on Android fragmentation are, well, fragmented.   The basic idea is that the open source platform will be specialized to such an extent that versions will be incompatible. Instead o... More >

Stopping Fake Antivirus: How to Keep Scareware off Your Network

This white paper provides insight into where fake antivirus comes from and how it is distributed, what happens when a system is infected with fake antivirus, and how to stop this persistent threat from infecting your network and your users.

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January 30, 2012

RIM Is Down — but Far from Out

There are lots of posted blogs and articles lately on the potential fate of Research In Motion and its flagship BlackBerry. The immediate cause, of course, is the replacement of co-chairs and co-CEO... More >

January 27, 2012

BYOD Acceptance Grows, but It Is Far from Universal

The image surrounding the fundamental change facing IT during the next year or so — the consumerization of IT/bring your own device (BYOD) — has generally been that IT departments are shaking in fe... More >

January 26, 2012

Tablets Growing, Inside and Outside the Enterprise

The inevitable move of communications technology from consumer to enterprise is under way for tablets. Of course, it has been for a while: Research In Motion’s PlayBook and Cisco’s Cius both are aime... More >

January 25, 2012

Lithium-Ion Batteries' Unexpected Heyday

A couple of years ago, one of the great underlying fears in the mobile community was that the limitations on powering would curtail the functionality of devices and chill innovation. Those fears led ... More >

January 24, 2012

Never a Dull Moment in the Development Community

The attitude of developers is a lower profile, but nonetheless vital, element in the success or failure of a mobile operating system. The way in which the writing code is handled varies greatly by mo... More >

January 23, 2012

CES — Not Just for Consumers Anymore

It’s been a couple of weeks since the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), but it is worth revisiting to point to the new equipment and services displayed in Las Vegas that are especially r... More >

January 20, 2012

M2M Showing Steady Growth

I’ve overused calling machine-to-machine (M2M) the dark matter of the telecommunications world. Dark matter is the mysterious substance that really smart people tell us constitutes much of what is ou... More >

January 19, 2012

Here Comes the Next 802.11 Standard

Still another flavor of Wi-Fi is entering the fray. As all options seem when they are new, 802.11ac is quite a jump from the last addition to the list, which was 802.11n.   PC Magazine reports ... More >

January 18, 2012

Modern Telecommunications Is Pretty Heavy, Man

Power to the people.   That’s of course a slogan of a bygone age. But its essence is nowhere better illustrated than in a couple of trends in the cyber world: The SOPA/PIPA protest and the consu... More >

January 16, 2012

Leahy Backs off Controversial Elements of the Protect IP Act

The Internet apparently has dodged part of what it considers a pretty big bullet, at least for the time being.   Bills making their way through the House and Senate are aimed at addressing perni... More >

January 13, 2012

Get Ready to Hear A Lot More About White Space

Transmitting using white space spectrum — nicknamed "super Wi-Fi" or "Wi-Fi on steroids" — is one of those technologies that has extravagant promise. Unlike many of the others, not too much of the bl... More >

January 12, 2012

Nightmare on Every Street: Power Grid Security and Slasher Films

Power grid security is a bit like a scary movie. Things start out quite normally — a bunch of good-natured kids go for a weekend at a secluded lake house, and seem to be having fun — but then things ... More >

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