Wednesday, 28 March 2012

How One City Used Smartphones to Fix Its Streets

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March 28, 2012
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How One City Used Smartphones to Fix Its Streets The CIO of the City of Cambridge, Mass., developed an iPhone and Android app that citizens can use to report potholes, vandalism and other issues.
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Box Unveils Cloud Service for Workplace Mobile Apps OneCloud is designed to help IT departments better manage the mobile applications that their end users install on their tablets and PCs and use for work.
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Google I/O Dev Event Sells Out in Record Time The Google I/O 2012 conference sold out its allotment of 5,500 tickets within 20 minutes today, a company executive said.
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iPad vs. Ultrabook: Picking the Perfect Next-Gen Laptop in Belize, an iPad proved the better product for communication, but for actually getting the job done a Toshiba Ultrabook won out.
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Enterprise Social Tools Need to Be Highly Mobile Executives at AstraZeneca, a global pharmaceutical company, know that it's not enough to provide social collaboration tools for their employees. Those tools...
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Lenovo Debuts App Shop for Larger Businesses Lenovo announced an enterprise-focused app storefront for tablets running Android 3.1 or higher.
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What's the Best Way to Set Up Private Cloud Storage? Given that cloud computing is still emerging, it shouldn't come as a surprise that opinions vary widely on the best way to architect the storage.
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Flash Player 11.2 Fixes Critical Vulnerabilities, Adds Silent Updates Adobe released Flash Player 11.2 on Tuesday, addressing two critical arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities and introducing a silent update option.
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A Surefire Recipe for Cloud Failure Too often, IT leads with the technology and overlooks the other ingredients in a cloud rollout: planning, strategy, architecture.
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Adobe Streamlines Update Process with Flash 11.2 Adobe is releasing a security update for Flash Player today, but aside from patching a couple Critical vulnerabilities, the update also includes a new and improved background updater tool.
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Today is Document Freedom Day; Here's Why It Matters. If you ever collaborate or exchange files with others, this is the time to speak up for interoperability.
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Security Firms Disable the Second Kelihos Botnet A group of malware experts from security companies Kaspersky Lab, CrowdStrike, Dell SecureWorks and the Honeynet Project, have worked together to disable the...
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Apple to Offer Refund Over Australian 4G IPad Claims Apple will offer refunds to people who bought its latest iPad following a claim by Australia's competition regulator that it ran misleading advertisements over...
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Apple Dismisses iPad Battery Charging Concerns An Apple VP explains that the battery charging "issues" with the new iPad are really just normal operating behavior working as designed.
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Mobile 4G Wi-Fi Hotspot: iPad vs. NetZero vs. Jetpack How does the 4G iPad stack up against some of the dedicated mobile hotspot competition if you need to connect your devices on the go?
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EU to Cap Mobile Roaming Charges for Travelers In a speedy show of consensus, the European Union's three law making institutions have agreed new rules that will cut mobile phone roaming charges for consumers...
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Online File Locker Service Rapidshare Declared Legal by German Court Online file locker Rapidshare is legal in Germany, but has to adjust its policy regarding infringing content, the Higher Regional Court in Hamburg has ruled...
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How to Start a New Business on the Cheap, Part 1 When you're launching your new enterprise, every dollar counts. Here are three ways to survive on a razor-thin budget.
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Avira Becomes Latest Vendor to Offer Mac Antivirus Software German security company Avira has released free antivirus software for Apple Macs, joining a host of security software providers offering protection for OS X.
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