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	Android beats iPhone 2-to-1 in new smartphone purchases Apple's iPhone lost share among U.S. consumers who bought a mobile phone in the last three months, while the share for devices running Google's Android climbed, Nielsen said Monday. Read More WEBCAST: SAP How to Create a Modern BI Strategy for Mid-Size Businesses As technology changes, so does BI. Keeping up with these changes to get the most out of your BI strategy can be challenging, but not if you have the right tools and services in place. With technology advances such as social networking and mobility, how do BI and analytics fit in? View now In this Issue MySQL.com hacked to serve malware Consumers can opt for fewer Firefox releases From CIO.com: Facebook's Redesigned News Feed: 4 Things You Need to Know Toshiba adds cloud-based backup option to consumer drives Google asks court to dismiss lawsuit over Microsoft-only cloud contract Glyn Meek: 6 new phone apps for old IT pros BoxTone adds automated security to mobile software Samsung and Apple clash in Dutch court 9/11 changed data center security Samsung Omnia W launches low-cost Windows Mango phone U.S. agencies to return $55M from AdSurfDaily operation Oracle, Google will hold third settlement conference Groupon COO quits, returns to Google Concern over U.S. snoops drives Canadian political party to cloud-based encryption Sharon Machlis: Claim: Women 'dominate' men at social networking. True? Preston Gralla: Researcher claims Windows Phone 7 snoops on user locations Richi Jennings: 'Facebook charging $9.99 tomorrow' -- anatomy of a chain hoax RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: FileMaker Resource: iOS White Paper and Deployment Kit Quickly Develop and Deploy iOS Solutions. With FileMaker Pro, iPad and iPhone solutions can be prototyped and completed in hours or days versus weeks or months. No iOS application programming or design experience is required. Read the white paper and download the kit. MySQL.com hacked to serve malware The website for the open-source MySQL database was hacked and used to serve malware to visitors Monday. Read More Consumers can opt for fewer Firefox releases Although Mozilla will urge users to stick with Firefox's rapid release schedule, there's nothing to prevent them from adopting a much slower tempo that's been proposed for enterprises. Read More From CIO.com: Facebook's Redesigned News Feed: 4 Things You Need to Know In its third major update in a week, Facebook launched a new News Feed interface that predicts stories you'll find interesting and includes a ticker that updates in real-time. Here's what the changes mean for you. Read More Toshiba adds cloud-based backup option to consumer drives Toshiba today announced a new cloud service interface on its Canvio 3.0 line of external portable hard drives, which automatically discovers files and recommends which should be backed up to the cloud. Read More Google asks court to dismiss lawsuit over Microsoft-only cloud contract Google and one of its resellers have asked a federal court to dismiss their case against the U.S. Department of the Interior over Microsoft-only bids for cloud-based services. Read More Glyn Meek: 6 new phone apps for old IT pros With the proliferation of applications now available on mobile phones, I did a little research and came up with these novel and invaluable apps. Insider (registration required) Read More BoxTone adds automated security to mobile software BoxTone, an enterprise mobility management software provider, today announced new enhancements to its Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) platform that are designed to help CIOs, CISOs and other IT managers meet security and compliance regulations while managing large numbers of employee- and corporate-owned mobile devices. Read More Samsung and Apple clash in Dutch court The legal battle between Apple and Samsung continued on Monday in a district court hearing in The Hague, Netherlands, during which the two companies argued the merits of four Samsung patents. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Moving to a Cloud-based Delivery Model Help Desk software as a service is attractive to many IT departments. It offers the same benefits of traditional IT help desk solutions, in addition to reducing capital expenses, accelerating implementation, and providing easier upgrades. This paper explores considerations for implementing IT service management in-house or as a service. Read Now! 9/11 changed data center security Data Centers have always been secure, tightly controlled facilities, but the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, brought about changes that have pushed physical and IT security to significantly higher levels. Insider (registration required) Read More Samsung Omnia W launches low-cost Windows Mango phone Samsung has launched the Omnia W, its first smartphone based on Windows Phone 7.5, also known as Mango. The phone is aggressively priced at about €310 before taxes and subsidies, following in the footsteps of HTC's Radar. Read More U.S. agencies to return $55M from AdSurfDaily operation Two U.S. government agencies have begun to return $55 million in forfeited funds from a Web-based operation accused by investigators of being a massive Ponzi scheme, the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Secret Service announced Monday. Read More Oracle, Google will hold third settlement conference Oracle and Google will engage in another attempt to settle their lawsuit over alleged Java patent and copyright violations in the Android mobile OS. Read More Groupon COO quits, returns to Google Groupon's COO has quit after just five months and decided to return to her former employer, Google, Groupon said on Friday. Read More Concern over U.S. snoops drives Canadian political party to cloud-based encryption One of Canada's largest political parties is using cloud-based Salesforce.com in the U.S. to store information about voters and interact with them, but worries that U.S. government snoops could peek at sensitive information under U.S. law prompted the Canadian party to use a strong encryption approach. Read More Sharon Machlis: Claim: Women 'dominate' men at social networking. True? 'Women Dominate Men at Social Networking,' blares the headline. But does the data back that up? Read More Preston Gralla: Researcher claims Windows Phone 7 snoops on user locations When it was revealed this spring that iPhone secretly reported on users' locations, Microsoft made clear that Windows Phone 7 didn't do the same thing. But now a security researcher claims that Windows Phone 7 does in fact gather location data and report it to a server without users' knowledge. Read More Richi Jennings: 'Facebook charging $9.99 tomorrow' -- anatomy of a chain hoax FACEBOOK JUST RELEASED THEIR PRICE GRID FOR MEMBERSHIP. $9.99 PER MONTH... Yes, apparently, Facebook will start charging tomorrow. Are they serious? Yes, it must be true: I read it on my Facebook feed. Let's dissect this craziness, in The Long View... Read More
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