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Smartphones need smart security practices
Smartphones may seem cute and personal, but in a business setting, they’re really handheld computers that need to be secured to prevent data loss. Read More

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Why Old Servers Cost More Than You Think
You’ll learn how today’s servers – faster, cheaper and easier to maintain – save money, improve performance and contain costs. Also, receive three tools – a power consumption calculator, a memory configuration tool and a breakeven estimator – to analyze the savings new servers can deliver. Read More

Hackers wield newest IE exploit in drive-by attacks
A security researcher said hackers are attacking some PC users by using an Internet Explorer exploit allegedly used last month to break into Google’s network. Read More

Psystar appeals injunction, destroys copies of Mac cloning tool
Mac clone maker Psystar has appealed a federal court’s injunction that bars it from selling Mac OS X-equipped computers. Read More

Google cyberattack investigation includes employees
Google’s investigation of a cyberattack that rocked the company’s infrastructure in mid-December includes a probe of its staff in China, a source familiar with the investigation said on Monday. Read More

Mike Elgan: How Apple is training you for the future
It’s hard enough to invent a better way to do things. But the most difficult challenge is getting consumers to accept the change. Read More

Alibaba calls Yahoo’s support of Google ‘reckless’
Alibaba Group, the owner of Yahoo China, rejected as “reckless” a Yahoo statement supporting Google’s stance in the country, after Google said it was hit by cyberattacks from China and may cease business there. Read More

Apple sets Jan. 27 event to show ‘our next creation’
Apple Inc. on Monday sent out invitations to journalists inviting them to a Jan. 27 press event in San Francisco as speculation about the prospect of an Apple tablet builds. Read More

Vendor retracts claim of Adobe flaw’s part in Google attack
A vendor that earlier this week claimed that a vulnerability in Adobe Reader appeared to have resulted in the recent attacks against Google and other companies has retracted that claim. Read More

Why Your Small Business Needs a Real Server
You could realize the advantages of running a workplace where employees, partners, and customers can access information whenever they need it, wherever they are. You and your business could truly work from anywhere. and enjoy the protection of having a consistent way to back up data so that critical information survives individual desktop crashes or laptop losses. Read More

Report: Apple in talks with publisher on tablet e-books
Apple is in talks with HarperCollins Publishers about offering e-books for the upcoming Apple tablet device, a news report said late Monday. Read More

Three lessons for businesses from the Google attack
The cyberattacks against Google and more than 30 other technology companies by adversaries operating out of China highlights what some call the Advanced Persistent Threat confronting a growing number of U.S commercial entities. Read More

China: We are biggest victim of cyberattacks
China on Tuesday denied any role in alleged cyberattacks on Indian government offices, calling China itself the biggest victim of hackers. Read More

What Gmail hack? China spins news of Google threat
Chinese state media has spun Google’s threat to leave China as a purely commercial move, as authorities there apparently work to limit discussion of human rights issues raised by Google. Read More

Haiti relief effort draw flood of tech-trained volunteers
Tech-savvy volunteers have swamped the relief agency Telecoms Sans Frontieres with offers to deploy with the earthquake-relief effort in Haiti where the group has already deployed two SWAT teams armed with satellite gear, Wi-Fi equipment and rapid-response training. Read More

AT&T drops price of iPhone’s unlimited voice and data plan
In war, there are no winners–unless the war in question happens to be a price war, and the combatants happen to be Verizon and AT&T. In that case, customers tend to make out quite nicely. Read More

IT Blogwatch: Twitter “terrorist” taken to task
Paul Chambers, a Brit twit, is ruing the day he posted a joke bomb threat to his Twitter followers. He was summarily arrested as an alleged terrorist, suspended from his job, and banned from Doncaster’s Robin Hood Airport. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers steal from the poor to give to the rich. Read More

IT Blogwatch: Ditch IE over Google China ‘Aurora’ hack bug?
Should we be ditching IE because of the Google China hacking vulnerability? The German government thinks so. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers debate putting Internet Explorer out of our misery. Not to mention an alien shapeshifter… (MSFT) Read More

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