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	Has FCC "gone off the rails" with latest WiFi blocking fines? It turns out that critics of the FCC's crackdown over the past year on organizations purposefully blocking consumers' Wi-Fi hotspots might actually have a couple of kindred spirits on the Commission itself. Read More WHITE PAPER: Tangoe The Lifecycle of Mobility Management Services Since its rise to prominent a decade ago, mobility has continued to expand its profound influence on how we work and communicate. Learn More In this Issue Sony BMG Rootkit Scandal: 10 Years Later INSIDER 5 ways to personalize Windows 10 New products of the week 11.02.2015 How Uber's surge pricing actually affects users, and how you can avoid it Review: Asus ZenWatch 2 brings good design and robust hardware at a bargain price T-Mobile offers users free 4G LTE CellSpot to boost indoor cellular coverage Why Google is committed to Chrome OS Wireless power alliance, with 195 vendors, takes new name Raspberry Pi Foundation merges with Code Club to benefit more youths FCC strikes again on Wi-Fi blocking: Hilton, big electrical contractor fined 8 ways to leverage location services Apple Pay at 1 year: Growing, but slowly Inventing 5G networks is hard work - but there's time for play, too INSIDER 5 interview questions for big data engineers… and how to answer them National Science Foundation invests $5M-plus in big data hubs WHITE PAPER: Kony Inc Is Your App Development Process Collaborative? In modern application development environments, the word "project" no longer applies. Development teams are learning how valuable it is to welcome feedback from across the organization throughout the process. See how companies are reaping the rewards of an open, ongoing exchange of ideas. Learn More Sony BMG Rootkit Scandal: 10 Years Later Ben Edelman/Wikipedia A warning pops up on computer screen about Sony BMG rootkit on music CD Hackers really have had their way with Sony over the past year, taking down its Playstation Network last Christmas Day and creating an international incident by exposing confidential data from Sony Pictures Entertainment in response to The Interview comedy about a planned assassination on North Korea’s leader. Some say all this is karmic payback for what’s become known as a seminal moment in malware history: Sony BMG sneaking rootkits into music CDs 10 years ago in the name of digital rights management.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More INSIDER 5 ways to personalize Windows 10 Windows 10 is a welcome return to the Windows operating system that many of us missed after Microsoft implemented radical design changes in Windows 8. Win10 has been praised for going back to the basics we're familiar with, but not everything is the way it was and other functions seem to be missing. Here are five programs that rectify what users may miss in Windows 10.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More New products of the week 11.02.2015 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as dinSQL and Unitrends. Read More How Uber's surge pricing actually affects users, and how you can avoid it I'll admit I can be a cynic sometimes, especially when it comes to companies justifying dubious business practices by saying that it's really all for the customers' own good. Classic example: when I first heard about Uber's surge pricing—the ride-dispatching company's habit of raising prices in times of peak demand, like rainstorms or terrorist attacks—I didn't believe the company's explanation that it was actually a good thing for its users. The idea, the company maintains, is that higher prices are an incentive for more drivers to hit the road, reducing the imbalance between supply and demand.See also: How a Florida fender-bender could threaten Uber's business model  It seemed too convenient to be true, I thought, and smacked more of profiteering than public service. But that was just a hunch, I had no evidence to support my cynicism.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Review: Asus ZenWatch 2 brings good design and robust hardware at a bargain price When I began the Asus ZenWatch 2 review, I knew nothing about the watch except what was printed on the box, not even the price. I relied on the capable advice of Elizabeth Mezias, an expert developer who has worked with Android and Android Wear since before either software systems was released.Scrolling and app-launching performance of the Asus ZenWatch 2 was equivalent to those of other Android Wear watches, like the Moto 360 or LG G Watch R. Reversing recent trends, the ZenWatch has a square face instead of a round one, like the Motorola and the LG watches. Here's a photo comparing the ZenWatch 2 with other popular Android smartwatches.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More : Citrix Systems eGuide: Mobile Security In this eGuide, IDG News Service, CSO, Computerworld and InfoWorld offer news, commentary and advice about how to successfully launch and maintain mobile strategies. Read on to learn how to make mobile devices manageable and secure in your organization. Learn More T-Mobile offers users free 4G LTE CellSpot to boost indoor cellular coverage T-Mobile on Tuesday announced an indoor 4G LTE CellSpot that will help small businesses and residents connect up to 16 simultaneous calls or data sessions.The device is free to T-Mobile Simple Choice postpaid customers as long as they remain with the carrier, and a $25 deposit is required. The device will be available Wednesday through T-Mobile customer care or participating stores nationwide.T-Mobile CEO John Legere called the CellSpot the first mini tower available from a U.S. carrier, and revved up the rhetoric that other carriers aren't letting customers freely decide where to put small cell devices for better cellular coverage.MORE: 10 mobile startups to watch "They'll do absolutely everything they can to bleed you dry," Legere said of his competitors in a statement, with similar comments in a video posted Monday on his Twitter feed.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Why Google is committed to Chrome OS The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Google would fold the Chrome OS into Android, spawning widespread rumors and speculation. Then Chrome and Android VP of Engineering Hiroshi Lockheimer contradicted the Wall Street Journal in a tweet confirming Google's commitment to Chrome OS. And a Google spokesperson's response to my request for clarification unequivocally stated that Google wasn't sun-setting the Chrome OS. But then again, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who once ran the Chrome group, has said that Chrome OS and Android would come closer together. The controversy has been echoing ever since.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Wireless power alliance, with 195 vendors, takes new name Two of the three wireless charging consortiums today announced they are putting a name to their previously announced merger, which brings 195 member vendors under one umbrella.The Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) and the Power Matters Alliance (PMA) will now be called the AirFuel Alliance.The AirFuel Alliance, whose members include AT&T, Samsung and Intel, are pitted against the largest of the wireless charging groups, the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC), which has 222 members. WPC, which champions the Qi wireless charging standard, includes members such as LG, Sony and Verizon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Raspberry Pi Foundation merges with Code Club to benefit more youths The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced a merger with the UK's Code Club in an effort to better reach out to young people with a message of making things with computers rather than just using them."Raspberry Pi Foundation and Code Club were both created as responses to the collective failure to prepare young people for life and work in a world that is shaped by digital technologies," according to a blog post on the Foundation's website.MORE: The evolution of Raspberry Pi | 20 Cool Things You Can Do with a Raspberry PiTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More FCC strikes again on Wi-Fi blocking: Hilton, big electrical contractor fined The FCC isn't kidding around in going after Wi-Fi blockers: Now it has slapped big electrical contracting company M.C. Dean with a $718,000 fine for blocking consumers' Wi-Fi connections and has proposed a $25,000 fine for Hilton Worldwide for "apparent obstruction of an investigation" into whether Hilton blocked consumers' Wi-Fi devices. Read More WHITE PAPER: Tangoe The Power of Mobility to Catalyze Business Growth To better understand the issues CFOs are dealing with related to management of mobile technology, infrastructure, and processes, CFO Research and Tangoe conducted a survey of senior finance executives and discovered that CFOs are making difficult choices and tradeoffs related to their firms' mobility strategies. Learn More 8 ways to leverage location services On-campus beacon use can help IT provide local, targeted services and data to employees, temps, clients, and guests Read More Apple Pay at 1 year: Growing, but slowly A year after its launch, Apple Pay has seen some significant growth in the U.S. But the mobile payment service has a ways to go to get to wide adoption. Read More Inventing 5G networks is hard work - but there's time for play, too New efforts at developing future 5G mobile technology include a planned series of meetings to reach international consensus and the opening of an R&D "playground" at Korea's SK Telecom. Read More INSIDER 5 interview questions for big data engineers… and how to answer them Big data engineers work to understand business objectives and translate those objectives into data processing workflows. These professionals are typically responsible for gathering and processing raw data, evaluating new data sources for acquisition and integration, and designing and implementing relational databases for storage and processing.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More National Science Foundation invests $5M-plus in big data hubs The National Science Foundation announced Monday that it is awarding a handful of universities more than $5 million to establish four regional hubs devoted to furthering the ability of organizations in fields ranging from agriculture to healthcare to make better use of big data.The awards are the next step in advancing the National Big Data Research and Development Initiative that's been in the works for a couple of years now.The Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs are coordinated by data scientists at Columbia University (Northeast Hub), Georgia Tech and the University of North Carolina (South Hub), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Midwest Hub) and the University of California, San Diego the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Washington (West Hub). More than 250 organizations nationwide, including from municipalities and big companies, will work with the schools to speed research discoveries into practice.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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