Obama: Unlocking phones should be legal, despite DMCA

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	Richi Jennings: Obama: Unlocking phones should be legal, despite DMCA White House agrees with petitioners. After a petition exceeded 100,000 signatures, Obama's White House issues a statement saying cellphone unlocking shouldn't be illegal. The Administration effectively says the DMCA is an ass (at least in this regard). The FCC and Library of Congress agree, but the wireless-carrier industry doesn't (natch). In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder what'll happen next. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco The Cisco Unified Workspace Trends such as mobility, virtualization, video, collaboration, knowledge management, and cloud have come to the forefront as companies struggle with how to integrate iPads, tablets, and smartphones into their business and IT models. In response, the Cisco Unified Workspace provides a solution for creating an organization-wide mobility strategy. Learn More. In this Issue Preston Gralla: Want to be a billionaire? Work for Microsoft, Google, Facebook, or Wal-Mart but not Apple Darlene Storm: White House, FCC agree that unlocking cellphones should be legal Sharon Machlis: Cool data tools and resources from NICAR13 Sharky: D'oh! WHITE PAPER: Service-now.com Guide to Social IT Basics When IT organizations utilize social media, it can efficiently help more people inside and outside the data center quickly access more services and knowledge. Read Now! Preston Gralla: Want to be a billionaire? Work for Microsoft, Google, Facebook, or Wal-Mart but not Apple If your goal in life is to be a billionaire, start making out your job application to Microsoft, Google, Facebook, or Wal-Mart. In the most recent list of billionaires compiled by Forbes, six are are associated with Google, five with Wal-Mart, four with Facebook, and three Microsoft.As for Apple, there's only a single billionaire, Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs' widow. Read More Darlene Storm: White House, FCC agree that unlocking cellphones should be legal The White House reponded to the We the People petition asking the U.S. to make unlocking cellphones legal again. The Obama Administration and the FCC agree, yes, it should be legal for you to unlock your smartphone without risking criminal penalties. Read More WHITE PAPER: Kaspersky Lab, Inc. Delivering Endpoint Integration and Control Read this report to learn more about the offerings of platform-based secure content and threat management and why businesses should put an increased focus around an endpoint security platform implementation. Learn more. Sharon Machlis: Cool data tools and resources from NICAR13 Data analysis with R, SQL-like map queries with Fusion Tables, tracking Congress with JavaScript and more. Read More Sharky: D'oh! It's February 28, and this pilot fish gets a support call from an employee who's trying to use a scheduling program -- but it keeps returning an error. Read More
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