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	Mobile device management: Getting started Get started by focusing on the device(s) and the data plan, security issues and general policies. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Good Technology Maximize Mobile Choices for Employees Is a tidal wave of consumer mobile devices flooding your workplace? You're not alone. Most IT professionals are under pressure from mobile professionals, who have a strong preference for Bring Your Own Device or BYOD. Rather than fight the growing tide, smart IT is looking for ways to give employees greater mobility, while minimizing risk and cost. Click to continue In this Issue Windows 8 Release Preview leaks to Web RIM warns of Q1 loss, hires bankers to evaluate changes NoSQL vendor 10Gen secures $42M in fresh funding WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange loses extradition appeal Sprint to shut down Nextel iDEN network next year Sharon Machlis: 9% of top US tech execs are women, survey says Samsung preps two new Chromebooks as Google updates Chrome OS, Apps HTC smartphones pass U.S. Customs inspection Gartner sees huge rise in corporate social media monitoring Facebook buying Face.com would spotlight facial recognition tech Oracle prepares to enter PaaS wars Fedora 17 takes to the cloud Megaupload's Kim Dotcom gets access to documentary evidence against him IT Blogwatch: New iPhone 5 pics show EVERY detail, say rumor-mongers RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Good Technology Maximize Mobile Choices for Employees Is a tidal wave of consumer mobile devices flooding your workplace? You're not alone. Most IT professionals are under pressure from mobile professionals, who have a strong preference for Bring Your Own Device or BYOD. Rather than fight the growing tide, smart IT is looking for ways to give employees greater mobility, while minimizing risk and cost. Click to continue Windows 8 Release Preview leaks to Web A Chinese edition of Windows 8, reportedly the same build that Microsoft will launch in the next week as the Release Preview, has leaked to file-sharing sites. Read More RIM warns of Q1 loss, hires bankers to evaluate changes Research In Motion warned that it expects an operating loss for the quarter and has hired two investment banks to help it study alternative company strategies that might include licensing its OS. Read More NoSQL vendor 10Gen secures $42M in fresh funding 10Gen, one of the leading vendors of NoSQL database technologies, has secured $42 million in fresh funding from New Enterprise Associates and existing investors such as Sequoia Partners and Flybridge Capital. Read More WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange loses extradition appeal WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may be extradited to Sweden for questioning about allegations of sexual offenses, the U.K. Supreme Court ruled, upholding a lower court ruling and dismissing Assange's appeal. Read More Sprint to shut down Nextel iDEN network next year Sprint Nextel will finish shutting down its narrowband iDEN network as early as June 30, 2013, the company said. Read More Sharon Machlis: 9% of top US tech execs are women, survey says Not an impressive number, although it's more than are CEOs at the Fortune 1000. Read More Samsung preps two new Chromebooks as Google updates Chrome OS, Apps Samsung will launch this week two new Chrome OS-based computers, a laptop and desktop that are designed to be significantly faster and more versatile than previous models. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Good Technology Maximize Mobile Choices for Employees Is a tidal wave of consumer mobile devices flooding your workplace? You're not alone. Most IT professionals are under pressure from mobile professionals, who have a strong preference for Bring Your Own Device or BYOD. Rather than fight the growing tide, smart IT is looking for ways to give employees greater mobility, while minimizing risk and cost. Click to continue HTC smartphones pass U.S. Customs inspection HTC said its newest smartphones models had all passed a required U.S. Customs review, clearing device shipments after they were previously delayed because of the inspection. Read More Gartner sees huge rise in corporate social media monitoring Corporations are starting to embrace technologies used to monitor employee Internet use, with 60% expected to watch their workers' social media use for security breaches by 2015, according to Gartner. Read More Facebook buying Face.com would spotlight facial recognition tech Whether or not Facebook acquires facial recognition services provider Face.com, as rumors say it will, the persistence of the speculation calls attention to the expanding use of the technology in social applications. Read More Oracle prepares to enter PaaS wars Oracle may lay out how it plans to become a player in the burgeoning PaaS (platform as a service) market next week during a webcast event featuring CEO Larry Ellison and co-president Mark Hurd. Read More Fedora 17 takes to the cloud The newest release of the Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Linux distribution includes a number of technologies that haven't made their way into Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including a new version of the OpenStack cloud platform, code-named Essex, that the company plans to adopt in future editions of its flagship distribution. Read More Megaupload's Kim Dotcom gets access to documentary evidence against him A court in New Zealand has granted Kim Dotcom, founder of the Megaupload file-sharing site, access to documents which contain evidence against him, and are held by prosecuting authorities both in New Zealand and the U.S. Read More IT Blogwatch: New iPhone 5 pics show EVERY detail, say rumor-mongers New iPhone 5 pictures show Apple making room for a bigger screen, a semi-unibody enclosure, and a new dock connector. The screen is supposedly taller, switching to a 16:9 HDTV-style ratio. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder the meaning of it all. Read More
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