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InformationWeek: Earlier this week, Google+ rolled out a Pages feature that officially allows businesses and organizations to participate in the social networking service. U.S. government agencies, including NASA, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Marine Corps, DARPA and the National Nuclear Security Administration, have been quick to post their information with Google+. However, many agencies are […]

Computerworld: On Thursday, the U.S. Senate voted 52-46 to reject a bill that would have struck down the FCC’s net neutrality rules. The bill had been championed by Texas Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, and the vote against it largely followed party lines. The House of Representatives had earlier passed a similar measure, but President […]

Computerworld: U.S. veterans have a disproportionately high unemployment rate compared to other workers: 12.1 percent. To remedy that situation, President Obama has challenged U.S. companies to hire 100,000 unemployed vets by the end of 2013. Because today’s military is so high-tech, many enterprise IT departments are finding veterans to be a good fit for their […]

Computerworld: RIM says that it is investigating reports of service “delays” from BlackBerry users, but is careful to point out that it is not experiencing another outage. “There is no system-wide outage, however we are investigating reports that some users in EMEIA (Europe, Middle East, India, and Africa) have experienced delays,” the company said. A […]

Bloomberg BusinessWeek: The U.S. government has charged six Estonians and one Russian with 27 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy stemming from a massive click-jacking scheme. The hackers allegedly infected more than 4 million computers in more than 100 countries with malware that generated $14 million. The investigation of the scheme has been underway for […]

Wired: Early reports from iPhone 4S owners who have installed the iOS 5.0.1 update suggest that the new release fixes earlier battery problems for most people. “Frankly the difference is nothing short of amazing,” said iPhone owner Donald Kuntzman. “To go almost an entire day without a change in the meter reading seems unbelievable. Where […]

NY Times: Google CEO Larry Page may be new to his job, but he’s already made many changes to the company. So far, he’s canceled 25 projects, and he led the company’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility. But Page’s biggest impact may be on Google’s culture. He’s encouraging quick decision-making and discouraging the use […]

NetworkWorld: According to the Kroll Annual Global Fraud Report, 75 percent of executives say their enterprises were impacted by fraud last year. The good news is, that’s a decrease from 88 percent the previous year, but the bad news is that these security breaches still cost companies an average of 2.1 percent of earnings. In […]

LA Times: Adobe has apparently decided to throw in the towel on mobile Flash. The company said today that it will stop work on Flash plug-ins for mobile devices and will shift resources to AIR and HTML5 technologies. “Over the past two years, we’ve delivered Flash Player for mobile browsers and brought the full expressiveness […]

Bloomberg: For Barnes & Noble, getting into the tablet PC business has also meant getting into the middle of the ongoing mobile patent firestorm. Microsoft has filed complaints with the International Trade Commission which allege that Barnes & Noble’s Nook tablet infringes on five patents. Barnes & Noble has responded with letters to the U.S. […]

ZDNet: The environmental activists at Greenpeace have published the 17th edition of their “Guide to Greener Electronics.” Although none of the companies scored particularly well, HP topped the chart with a 5.9 out of 10. HP, Dell and Apple all climbed several places from last year’s list after making changes in their operations. Here’s the […]

Computerworld: A new report from Informa Telecoms and Media commissioned by the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) predicts that the number of public Wi-Fi hotspots in the world will increase by 350 percent over the next four years. That puts the total number of global hotspots at 5.8 million by 2015. The report also says that […]