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Sure, the iPhone is a consumer darling, but that doesn't mean the iPhone can't get down to business, too. Here are some iPhone applications that are winning enterprise-minded fans and helping workers stay connected to the business applications and business software they use frequently, plus a few fresh iPhone business apps that are new to an emerging application hungry iPhone audience.
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IT manager: Hurricane, tropical storm, and natural disaster season is here. Learn how to have a disaster recovery plan for business continuity with the appropriate storage and backup strategies. Disaster recovery should be looked at not just in terms of business continuity and applications availability, but also for compliance reasons.
Opinion
Before you choose a SaaS, in the cloud hosted service or other online backup technology to protect and store your backup data, be sure to ask these key data storage questions: How much data will be stored? How fast do you need the data up and running? What makes up the data repositories? What kinds of data compression techniques will be used?
Opinion
Managers should play a major role in ensuring that their companies adhere to ethical online privacy policies. Using spyware, web monitoring software or other Internet monitoring techniques to track and document the behavior of your customers needs to be managed with restraint in order to protect the privacy of individuals.
News
Behind the excitement and glamour of the football season is some key information technology including: GPS, ecommerce, wired and wireless networking, voice over IP, systems integration, data security, storage and project management-- that support and enhance America’s favorite sport. Companies such as Cisco, Insight, Ignify, Microsoft and KORE Telematics are helping NFL teams get serious about managing information technology in logistics, customer relationship management and securely storing team and media-related data.
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A security flaw was discovered that showed it took only three taps to gain access to locked iPhones, which run the latest iPhone software. Apple said that it was aware of the problem and was readying a software update to fix it. In the meantime, Apple recommended users set the iPhone's "Home" button to open up the phone's iPod music collection rather than the phone's "Favorites" menu.
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For those online criminals who are not limited by the law, regulation and security technology, the ways of making money with online scams, identity theft, and hacking are limited only by criminal creativity. There is a thriving underworld of online criminals who are having a major impact on the lives of the innocent and the those trying to protect themselves in the age of security.
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Expected to be one of the fastest computers in the world, the University of Toronto and IBM Corp are building Canada's most powerful supercomputer. The supercomputer machine will need its own building and will be capable of performing 360 trillion calculations per second.
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Library branches in Phoenix have banded together to create a digital library that currently has about 50,000 titles of e-books, audiobooks, music and videos that can be "checked out" from anywhere.
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Google is an offering an upgraded version of the hardware appliance its sells to companies and government organizations for Google-style Web search of office documents.
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The future of data management, integration and search could lie in semantic web technology. Baseline is arming readers with information on semantics technology by examining the niche, the opportunities and challenges it may present to business leaders, IT management and end users in the next few years.
Article
A new study appears to point to the challenges of managing unstructured data, as in electronic document and records management, in the enterprise.
Article
A business intelligence and performance management initiative transformed disparate pieces of data into actionable business information to help boost Blue Mountain Resorts’ bottom line.
News
In an amended court filing that cited internal SAP documents, Oracle said four SAP board members, including current co-chief executive Henning Kagermann, received a confidential document that "made clear TomorrowNow did not operate legally."
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Turn mountains of log data and analysis into actionable information with these ten free applications that every IT manager should know about.
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