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Sniffer hijacks secure traffic from unpatched iPhones
Almost anyone can snoop the secure data traffic of unpatched iPhones and iPads using a recently-revised tool, a researcher said today as he urged owners to apply Apple's latest iOS fix. Read More


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Microsoft SharePoint Performance Brief
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Hands on: The Google+ Android app is a winner
An Android app allows Google+ members to keep up with the new social networking service on their smartphones. Read More

Facebook woos businesses; ups battle with Google+
While Google asks businesses to hold off using its new Google+ social network, rival Facebook is helping companies get onboard its site. Read More

QuickPoll: Is Google+ being too pedantic about using real names?
Google is adjusting the real-name policy of its Google+ social service to appease angry users -- many kicked off without notice. But Google will still not allow pseudoymns. Is Google+ being too pedantic about using real names? Read More

'War texting' lets hackers unlock car doors via SMS
Software that lets drivers unlock car doors and even start their vehicles using a mobile phone could let car thieves do the very same things, according to computer security researchers at iSec Partners. Read More

From CIO.com: Best of Google Labs: A Retrospective
As Google shuts down Google Labs, we look back at the many innovations the effort brought us, including Gmail, Google Goggles, Google Earth and Google Maps, among others. Read More

Google starts tweaking Chrome for OS X Lion
Google yesterday updated Chrome to work better in Apple's Lion OS, adding support for the operating system's default two-fingered page-swiping gesture. Read More

Citibank offers free iPad banking app
Citibank unveiled a new free banking app for iPad users with a focus on giving its customers a graphically rich view of their finances. Read More

How to implement IPv6 in a Windows environment: a guide
By now, you've heard that ARIN has (more or less) run out of IPv4 addresses and the time has come for mass migration to IPv6. If you are a Windows shop, the good news is that Microsoft has been preparing for IPv6 for years. INSIDER (registration required) Read More


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Five Steps to Successful IT Consolidation
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Google speeds up +1 button rendering
Google has improved its +1 button to make it load and perform faster on Web pages that feature it. Read More

Exploit demo on tap at Black Hat could 'make your water undrinkable'
A demo at Black Hat next week will remotely hack a car alarm, unlock the doors and start the vehicle, but that's just a parlor trick to call attention to a bigger problem that has the Department of Homeland Security on alert. Read More

U.K. probes HCL role phone hacking scandal
India's HCL Technologies has been questioned by the U.K. Parliament's Home Affairs Committee inquiring into a phone-hacking scandal, following allegations in Parliament that the outsourcer was involved in destroying data on behalf of News International. Read More

CA equips management tools for cloud oversight
CA Technologies has updated a number of its programs to make their users more ready to run some operations in a cloud environment, the company announced Wednesday. Read More

SAP co-CEO McDermott talks up HANA, mobility and SaaS
SAP has seen software sales rebound steadily after a dip during the global recession, and is hoping to supercharge its business with forays into in-memory computing, SaaS (software as a service) and mobile applications, a business it entered with last year's acquisition of Sybase. Read More

Matt Hauser: Websites in many languages: The benefits of translation memory
Translation Memory (TM) is a tool that helps human translators to work more efficiently and with a higher degree of accuracy and quality. So how does it work? Read More

Jonny Evans: Apple ultra-thin 15-inch MacBook Air Pro seems inevitable
Apple is planning to introduce a MacBook Air model that implements all the power of a MacBook Pro, a report claims. This should surprise no one, it makes sense -- and the most recent 'Airs are already faster than some relatively recent Apple desktops Read More

JR Raphael: Hands on: Google's Android 3.2 upgrade
Android 3.2 is making its way to Honeycomb tablets right now. Here's a detailed look at what the upgrade includes and how well it performs. Read More

 
 
 

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