Apple, Google: Invasions of privacy or business as usual?

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	Apple, Google: Invasions of privacy or business as usual? So. Both Apple and Google are collecting and storing location data from our iPhone 4's and HTC Androids, according to The Wall Street Journal. Presumably, the companies want to build big databases that could be used for any number of location-based services that they could profit from. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive SLA Compliance: Wireless Fidelity Achieved Aerohive delivers the next level in network visibility and reactive response with a new infrastructure-side performance monitoring and response system: SLA Compliance. Read now! In this Issue Drop-Proof Your iPad 2 iPhone 5: rounding up the rumors Our Picks: The 10 Most Essential Apps for Android Phone Users iPad 2 sales hurt by Q1 production shortages Best and worst Android apps for the Royal Wedding Defense CIO wants to speed adoption of cloud, mobile technologies First White Spaces access point gives grandma the Internet Apple iPhone location tracking has been no secret, researcher claims PlayBook's first-day sales outdo Galaxy Tab and Xoom, analyst says Web service guards SMBs against smartphone expense gotchas Verizon LTE storms the South and Midwest WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Security and Compliance in the Cloud Discover how to handle today's biggest challenges: coordinating user credentials and identities, controlling unmanaged user devices; and providing security when the datacenter,network and server assets exist in the Cloud. Compliments of Citrix. Read now! Drop-Proof Your iPad 2 These ruggedized covers keep your slate safe in a savage world. Read More iPhone 5: rounding up the rumors Here's the latest roundup of Apple iPhone 5 rumors and speculation. The basic idea: It will be better than iPhone 4. First, the next iPhone is now rumored to start production in midsummer, and to be released in September. That's according to Reuters, which cited "three people with direct knowledge of the company's supply chain." Big dilemma for us in the U.S. Buy one now with AT&T or Verizon, or wait until September (and pray the latest rumor is right about the timing)? Read More Our Picks: The 10 Most Essential Apps for Android Phone Users Our Android expert discusses the 10 apps he just can't live without. Read More WHITE PAPER: Iron Mountain Online Server Data Protection: A Fully Managed Cloud Service Read this data sheet to learn how Iron Mountain's LiveVault® helps enterprises achieve cloud data protection and long term off-site retention, remove complex, daily backups, store data securely off-site, and deliver point-in-time recovery. Read Now iPad 2 sales hurt by Q1 production shortages If you think it's hard to get your hands on an Apple iPad 2 now, gird up your loins: It's likely to get harder. Read More Best and worst Android apps for the Royal Wedding Overall, the upcoming Royal Wedding between Prince William and Catherine Middleton doesn't seem to be igniting the same degree of creative frenzy among Android developers as with their Apple iOS brethren. Read More Defense CIO wants to speed adoption of cloud, mobile technologies U.S. Department of Defense CIO Teri Takai intends to move the agency's IT in a more mainstream direction to help speed adoption of new technologies, particularly the cloud and mobile. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sophos Protecting personally identifiable information This white paper examines the challenges organizations face and the steps they can take to protect themselves and their customers against data breaches and ensure the safety of this sensitive information. Read more First White Spaces access point gives grandma the Internet A prototype access point uses low frequency White Spaces spectrum to forge a reliable Internet connection in a Houston trial. Wrongly dubbed "Super Wi-Fi," the frequency band carriers farther than conventional Wi-Fi, uses different frequencies, and has narrower channels. Read More Apple iPhone location tracking has been no secret, researcher claims A computer forensics expert says iOS data locations logs are neither new nor nefarious. Read More PlayBook's first-day sales outdo Galaxy Tab and Xoom, analyst says BlackBerry PlayBook sales hit 50,000 for the first day of sales on April 19, including pre-sales, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets estimated. Read More Web service guards SMBs against smartphone expense gotchas Small and midsize companies can now manage their smartphone expenses with a Web portal and smartphone app from Anomalous Networks. The Web service tracks current phone usage, compares it to your carrier plan, and creates reports and alerts for managing phone accounts in real time. Read More Verizon LTE storms the South and Midwest Now that Verizon has brought its LTE network to most major markets in the United States, it has started to move its 4G services into medium-size markets in the South and the Midwest. Read More
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