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Verizon, VMware roll out Android work, life sandboxes
— Summary: Verizon Enterprise will use VMware's Horizon Mobile software to segment work and life personas. The move is part of a broader effort to make Android more enterprise friendly. — Verizon's enterprise unit and VMware …
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Microsoft shares details about its next Windows Phone 8 update
— Summary: Microsoft is starting to detail features coming in this summer's GDR2 update to the Windows Phone 8 operating system. — Microsoft is starting to open up a bit on what Windows Phone 8 users can expect with the next version …
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Docomo to invest $50M in Pioneer for intelligent transport push
— Summary: The Japanese carrier will integrate Pioneer's in-car navigation telematics technologies, with its mobile cloud expertise to make a full-scale entry into the field of intelligent transport systems (ITS). — Ryan Huang
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With Windows Blue, Microsoft may (finally) do the right thing
— Summary: Call it capitulation. Call it listening to customers. But whatever you call it, making Windows 8 more usable with expected coming Blue tweaks is a positive, not a negative. — Mary Jo Foley
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Huawei, ZTE under probe by Indian government
— Summary: Indian government will reportedly set up a testing lab in Bangalore to test equipment by the Chinese telecoms gear makers, following security concerns by its intelligence agencies. — Ellyne Phneah
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Google unveils 5-year roadmap for strong authentication
— Summary: Smartphones and smart apps are major factor in access control strategy that plans to ignore whining from end-users — Google Wednesday unveiled a five-year road map for stronger consumer authentication tagging smartphones …
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Nvidia smashes Q1 estimates but outlook is wobbly
— Summary: Nvidia's CEO attributed Q1's success to “Kepler-based GPUs within and beyond the PC.” — Nvidia has a lot to be proud of on its first quarter earnings report, but the outlook is close to the edge.
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S. Korea nears decision on Google antitrust case
— Summary: Country's Fair Trade Commission is expected to be close to a decision on whether Google was stifling the market by allegedly having phonemakers preinstall only its search engine on their devices. — Kevin Kwang
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Cube 3D Printer goes retail at Staples for $1,299
— Summary: Staples will be among the first major retailers to offer a 3D printer. To date, 3D printers have been the focus of hobbyists. — Staples will begin selling 3D Systems' Cube 3D printer in select stores and online for $1,299 at the end of June.
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).