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	JR Raphael: Verizon Galaxy Nexus release date officially confirmed (for real!) | Preston Gralla: Microsoft's Steve Ballmer is rated third-worst tech company CEO
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	IT Blogwatch: Carrier IQ humbled, grilled by Feds Carrier IQ has been interviewed by the FCC and FTC in the ongoing row over smartphone privacy (or lack of it). The company says it wishes it could turn back time and handle things differently. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers scoff and mock. Not to mention: A is for Aardvark ... Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Apps for business Consider this before you set your 2012 IT strategy A communication and collaboration solution that's easy to deploy and maintain. A productivity solution that meets your needs now and automatically gets better over time—built with security in mind. A simple licensing model that is cost-effective and predictable. Google Apps offers simple, powerful tools for any business. Start the conversation. In this Issue JR Raphael: Verizon Galaxy Nexus release date officially confirmed (for real!) Preston Gralla: Microsoft's Steve Ballmer is rated third-worst tech company CEO Jonny Evans: Apple's Brazil-made iPhone S and iTunes to drive a new growth story Richi Jennings: Security in 2012: Let's start at the endpoint Josh Stephens: Managing the influx of wireless devices around the holidays Darlene Storm: NFC mobile threats on the horizon: What happens when we wave our wallets to pay? Shark Tank: Does anybody really know what time it is? WHITE PAPER: FileMaker Quickly Deliver Business Data to iPads and iPhones Challenged by the explosion of iPad and iPhone users expecting access to corporate data? FileMaker, a subsidiary of Apple, offers a middleware bridge that helps developers quickly provide on-demand access to corporate data in formatted reports and charts while giving IT the control it needs to manage and secure mobile data delivery. Read now! JR Raphael: Verizon Galaxy Nexus release date officially confirmed (for real!) After weeks of silence and countless rumors, Verizon Wireless has finally announced a release date for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft's Steve Ballmer is rated third-worst tech company CEO The criticism of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer just doesn't let up. He's just been rated the third worst CEO of more than 50 major tech companies by the site Glassdoor.com. Those ratings are based on what employees think of their CEOs, so there's clearly dissension in the Microsoft ranks. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple's Brazil-made iPhone S and iTunes to drive a new growth story Confirming the importance of Latin America as a key element to Apple [AAPL] and its future growth strategy, this week's launch of iTunes services in Brazil and 15 additional Latin American countries is significant and timed precisely to match the introduction of 'Made in Brazil' iPhones on Friday (December 16). Read More WHITE PAPER: Adobe Government at Carahsoft Adobe ColdFusion 9 Server Lockdown Guide This guide describes how server administrators can improve the security of their ColdFusion server. Learn more Richi Jennings: Security in 2012: Let's start at the endpoint What security trends should we look out for in 2012? How should organizations protect against new breeds of threat? Here are my thoughts about endpoint protection trends, in The Long View... INSIDER (free registration requested) Read More Josh Stephens: Managing the influx of wireless devices around the holidays At home you have a little more control over whether or not to allow guests and their new, Random Array of Personal Wireless Devices (RAPWD -- yeah, I just made that up) to access your 802.11 network. Personally, when I'm visiting someone and they won't allow me to access their wireless network I consider it on par with not allowing me to access their bathroom. Read More Darlene Storm: NFC mobile threats on the horizon: What happens when we wave our wallets to pay? There are 35 million NFC-enabled mobile phones in the world and mobile payments are predicted to reach $630 billion by 2014, making the mobile wallet a tempting target to attack. While the Google Wallet app is growing in popularity, it failed a security test. Researchers launched a successful 'software-only' relay attack on NFC mobile phones. As the USA embraces mobile payments, wave your phone as your wallet, we are no doubt just beginning to see exploit methods and attacks on NFC-enabled devices. Read More Shark Tank: Does anybody really know what time it is? Sixty engineers have worked on this highly secret system for a year with exactly two weeks to execute an experiment using three cesium clocks to synchronize down to a microsecond between three ships at sea. What could go wrong with that? Read More
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