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	RIM defends its place in the enterprise BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is fiercely defending its dominance in the smart phone market and, in particular, the enterprise. The company has made a number of announcements at its developers' conference in San Francisco this week, including a tablet computer and several enhancements to its development environment. Read More WHITE PAPER: Iron Mountain Email Archiving Deep Dive Mail servers continue to deal with ballooning message volumes and management challenges. Email archiving software provides a viable solution, particularly when granular government regulations apply. Learn More Now. In this Issue A brief history of Android Amazon prepping Android app store, tablet? Meet RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook Cisco expects BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to do well Google Voice cleared for iPhone: report Kindle owners rich, iPad owners young and male Four things RIM PlayBook got right BlackBerries gain remote support tools Rhomobile brings iPhone app dev to Windows PCs Let me hear your body talk Are these the first TV ads for Windows Phone 7 Devs bet big on Android over Apple's iOS Sprint shows off 4G video apps RIM launches 7-in. 'PlayBook' tablet Seabird concept phone designer talks about need for better interfaces Battle of the Android Browsers 5 Reasons RIM's PlayBook Isn't Ready for Business WEBCAST: Palo Alto Networks 60 Minutes: The Future of the Perimeter Join two pioneers in network security: Nir Zuk and Marcus Ranum, for what promises to be a very lively discussion on the future of the network perimeter. As applications and users move in and out of the enterprise network, what happens to the network perimeter as we know it? Does it go away? Evolve? How should organizations address these changes? Sign up now! A brief history of Android How Android rose to prominence in the smartphone market Read More Amazon prepping Android app store, tablet? Amazon is said to be readying an Android app store and tablet, a move that should boost Google's mobile platform while also challenging Google's own Android Market. Read More Meet RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook Research in Motions heats up the tablet wars with BlackBerry PlayBook that aims to outshine Apple and Samsung when it comes to business appeal. Read More Cisco expects BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to do well Cisco expects RIM's new BlackBerry PlayBook to do well among businesses moving toward tablets, and help to augment customer demand for Cisco's WebEx service and Unified Communications Manager platforms. Read More Google Voice cleared for iPhone: report Google Voice has been cleared for Apple's iPhone and should be available via the App Store in a few weeks, according to a report at TechCrunch.com, citing a source "close to Google." Read More WHITE PAPER: Fluke Networks Field Testing Installed Optical Fiber Cabling As traffic over networks expands and expectations of reliability increase, testing optical fiber cabling after installation is more important than ever before to assure the end-user that the installation was done properly and that the cabling will support Local Area Networks (LAN) into the future. Read now! Kindle owners rich, iPad owners young and male Kindle owners tend to be wealthier and more educated than Apple iPad and iPhone owners, while iPads are attracting a largely young, male following. Read More Four things RIM PlayBook got right Research in Motion has apparently learned some lessons after the underwhelming response the company received to its BlackBerry Torch smartphone. Read More BlackBerries gain remote support tools Enterprise BlackBerry handsets can now be remotely managed via an Odyssey Software plug-in, based on its Athena device management code, for RIM's BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Read More Rhomobile brings iPhone app dev to Windows PCs An update to the company's RhoHub cloud platform lets developers create iPhone apps on Microsoft systems Read More Let me hear your body talk Freer Logic has created an armband sensor that picks up brainwaves and sends signals wirelessly to a PC, so that a user could potentially control the computer with her mind. Read More WHITE PAPER: Alcatel-Lucent Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router Looking for routers that offer the scalability to extend your reach with cost-effective, feature-rich platforms that consolidate and deliver the business, residential and mobile services your customers demand? For a limited time, introductory kits are available for the newest additions to the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR portfolio. Read Now Are these the first TV ads for Windows Phone 7 Mobile Websites have been posting two videos that purport to be advertisements for Windows Phone. If legitimate, they give an insight into Microsoft's initial marketing push for the new OS, ahead of expected phone announcements in October. Read More Devs bet big on Android over Apple's iOS A majority of mobile application developers see Google's Android as the smart bet over the long run even as they vote for Apple's iOS in the short term, according to a survey published Monday. Read More Sprint shows off 4G video apps Sprint had a simple message to deliver to Boston today: Its WiMAX network is up and ready for business. Read More RIM launches 7-in. 'PlayBook' tablet RIM unveiled an "enterprise-ready" BlackBerry Playbook tablet on Monday that features front and rear high-definition cameras, a dual-core 1 GHz processor and a new BlackBerry Tablet OS. Read More Seabird concept phone designer talks about need for better interfaces Designer Billy May's concept smartphone, the Seabird, might never be produced. But the underlying concepts in the phone -- and inside Mays head -- are a wonder, nonetheless. Read More Battle of the Android Browsers Let's face it: The Android browser isn't perfect. While performance is improving with each update (Android 2.2, in particular, boosted the speed of the browser with a new Javascript engine), it's a fairly bare-bones browser compared with some of the others available in the Android Market. Read More 5 Reasons RIM's PlayBook Isn't Ready for Business RIM unveiled its new PlayBook in San Francisco Monday to mixed reviews and several unanswered questions. It became clear, however, that the device shown off at the DevCon keynote proved many of the rumors about RIM's tablet computer to be true, and that RIM hoped to make inroads into the business community, even calling its device the "first professional-grade tablet." (We obviously don't know what it takes for a tablet to lose its amateur status, though.) Read More
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