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	IT Blogwatch: 'Buffy' HTC Facebook phone coming in 2013; Android frag-fest? Yes, Virginia, Facebook is building a phone, using HTC as an ODM, or so the rumors say. Codenamed 'Buffy', the Android-based platform would have the social network baked in, rather than tacked on. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder the continuing fragmentation of Android. Not to mention: Ken Murphy's stunning timelapse, 'A History of the Sky' ... Read More WEBCAST: SAP Empowerment with Mobile Real-Time Analytics IT managers are gearing up to rapidly deploy mobile business intelligence and empower their front-line workers. In this webcast, we'll hear from experts on the challenges and driving forces behind creating BI reports in the field, and how to successfully deploy mobile analytic tools to increase productivity with minimal operational disruptions. Learn More In this Issue JR Raphael: Theory: Android's Ice Cream Sandwich keyboard based on BlindType Jonny Evans: Smartphone wars: ITC clears Apple in HTC/S3 patent case Darlene Storm: Android dubbed a cyber menace as mobile malware explodes Ryan Nichols: Enterprise 2.0 maturing with a focus on how we manage, measure, and motivate Preston Gralla: Novell says "We got stabbed in the back" in $1 billion Microsoft antitrust suit Michael Horowitz: Why Windows 7 SP1 may go missing Darragh Delaney: How LAN problems can impact on your firewalls Darlene Storm: Surrounded by surveillance: Is everything spying on you? Around the World: How safe is WPA2-secured Wi-Fi? Shark Tank: OK, let's think this one through, shall we? RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Datawatch Corporation Try Monarch Report Analytics free for 30 days! Download the 30 day Monarch trial at no cost and learn what 500,000 IT and Finance users already know, how to access data regardless of format or source. Monarch enables end users to access data that exists in static documents; including BI, ERP, PDF, green bar reports and other hard to access static data sources. Try Monarch for 30 days today! JR Raphael: Theory: Android's Ice Cream Sandwich keyboard based on BlindType One of the most powerful features in Google's Android Ice Cream Sandwich release is the new system keyboard -- and I have a sneaking suspicion it's based on the technology of BlindType, a hot startup Google bought last year. Read More Jonny Evans: Smartphone wars: ITC clears Apple in HTC/S3 patent case Apple has won yet another significant battle against its litigious iOS copycats, with the International Trade Commission (ITC) declaring the company did not violate patents owned by S3 Graphics/HTC. Will Google be next to face the courts? Read More Darlene Storm: Android dubbed a cyber menace as mobile malware explodes While Android is hugely popular, it's also the most highly targeted OS for mobile malware. In fact, numerous security firms predict doom and gloom for Droid security in the 2012 mobile device ecosystem; cybercriminals may view Android as the new low-hanging fruit. Android mobile malware has 'exploded' and was dubbed one of the biggest cyber menaces for government. Read More Ryan Nichols: Enterprise 2.0 maturing with a focus on how we manage, measure, and motivate Have you ever been to a technology conference where the technology wasn't the most interesting part? That was my experience last week at the Enterprise 2.0 conference, in Santa Clara. Seven years after we first started using the term "Enterprise 2.0," the most interesting content at the conference was about how this type of technology is both enabled by, and enabling, new ways of managing, measuring, and motivating people. Read More Preston Gralla: Novell says "We got stabbed in the back" in $1 billion Microsoft antitrust suit The Novell $1 billion anti-trust suit against Microsoft has turned nasty with Novell's lawyer claiming the company "got stabbed in the back," in the back," by Microsoft when Microsoft launched Windows 95 without support for WordPerfect. Bill Gates, meanwhile, testified that Novell simply wasn't capable of getting the word processor ready in time for the launch. Can things get nastier? Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning The term virtualization refers to the creation of virtual machines, virtual networks, and virtual disks, (logical images of physical resources) that can execute work and then be returned to a shared resource pool. Cloud computing makes use of virtualization, but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. Read Now Michael Horowitz: Why Windows 7 SP1 may go missing Are you running Windows 7 without Service Pack 1? If it's not on purpose, I stumbled across some reasons why Windows Update won't install SP1. Read More Darragh Delaney: How LAN problems can impact on your firewalls This week seems to have being a firewall issue week for me. I have worked on incidents in two large networks where problems on the LAN managed to bring down firewalls at the edge of the network. Firewalls have come a long way since the original stateless varieties which were little more than a collection of access control lists. These were superseded by firewalls which kept track of the state of network connections. Modern firewalls are now application aware, you can do things like block access to certain applications or prevent users from using applications like Bittorrent. Read More Darlene Storm: Surrounded by surveillance: Is everything spying on you? Depending upon who you listen to, GPS tracking shouldn't be your only concern when you are out and about on the streets. The ACLU hammered license plate scanners as logging our every move, a different investigative report concluded your car is spying on you, and some even claim the street lights are out to get you. Read More Around the World: How safe is WPA2-secured Wi-Fi? Darryl Boyett asked if his home Wi-Fi connection, which uses WPA2 protection, is safe enough for online banking. Read More Shark Tank: OK, let's think this one through, shall we? Pilot fish and his boss are responsible for supporting more than 650 computers and laptops on this private school's three separate campuses. Naturally, that requires a fair amount of help from the faculty and staff -- which isn't always exactly what fish gets. Read More
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