| Editor's note: Today's lead is a ZDNet story on Apple's shameful attempt to lock people out of their own iPhones. Also, see the news of Verizon challenging the FCC, a shake-up at Google, a couple cool photo galleries on anticipated products of 2011 and NASA-inspired tech. -Jason How does Apple screw up your iPhone? How does Apple screw up your iPhone? With screws, of course! But as the good folks at iFixit point out, these are no ordinary screws. Read more | More from TechRepublic | | | Fear and loathing in shadow IT Rather than continuing to fight shadow IT, consider taking a reasoned approach to understanding and adopting services that provide a compelling business benefit. Read more | | Poll: Are Microsoft's development tools headed in the right direction? Justin James thinks that much of Microsoft's recent efforts in the way of new development tools, technologies, and languages aren't really what developers need right now. Do you agree? Read more | | When "open source" software isn't truly open source The meaning of "open source" may seem self-evident, but what many people call open source is not. Chad Perrin illustrates the difference between pretend and actual open source software. Read more | | Five tips for migrating from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice If your organization is moving its users over to LibreOffice, there might be some initial confusion. Here are a few things you can do to make sure the experience is as painless as possible. Read more | | The perfect Enterprise Software Project...myth or reality? The number one reason that Enterprise software projects, big or small, fail, is because the executive sponsor(s) is not actively engaged in the process. Read more | | Why Mac OS X Lion will be better for enterprise administrators Erik Eckel lists his reasons for thinking that Mac's new Lion OS, coming this summer, will simplify the lives of enterprise administrators who support them. See if you agree. Read more | News from ZDNet | | | Verizon to challenge FCC's net neutrality order Verizon will challenge the Federal Communications Commission's Net neutrality issued as 2010 was winding down. The gist: The FCC doesn't have the Congressional authority to act. Read more | | Google earnings: Solid quarter shadowed by management changes Google reported a solid fourth quarter today, an announcement that included news of major shift at the company's executive levels. For the quarter ending December 31, the company reported $2.85 billion, or $8.75 per share, up from $6.79 for the year-ago quarter. Revenue was $6.37 billion, excluding traffic acquisition costs.... Read more | | HP revamps board; Change long overdue Hewlett Packard moved to shake up its board of directors amid the resignation of CEO Mark Hurd last year. A handful of former technology executives were named to the board. Read more | | HTC reported to launch Android-based Flyer tablet in March HTC is expected to launch three tablet PCs throughout the first half of the year, starting with the Flyer this March in the United States. Read more | | Box shakes up site with complete makeover, new tools Box.net today is unveiling a new look and feel to its cloud-based collaboration software offerings, a major transformation that's not only offering new tools but also simplifying its user interface. At the heart of the new look is a redesign that centers around the content on the site by devoting... Read more | | 5 things to know about electric vehicle batteries The buzz out of Bloom Energy today about the latest strategy for its fuel cell energy servers (it will offer them "as a service") underscores the important of storage technology when it comes to green energy approaches. It resonated especially loudly with me since I just spent an hour on... Read more | | Expiring web images: Future-proofing naive web users A new application will allow images uploaded to social networks to 'expire' and become inaccessible, future-proofing younger, more naive users from image retrobution. Read more | | Avoiding an iPad-induced panic Everyone seems to think that Microsoft must rush to release a credible competitor to Apple's iPad. I beg to differ. Getting it right is more important than getting it tomorrow. Read more | | Windows phone 7 'phantom data' down to 'third party' service Reports started emerging a few weeks ago which suggested that Windows Phone 7 handsets are suffering from a bug where data was being sent and received over 3G even when a WiFi connection is available. Read more | | T-Mobile: Android-based Sidekick 4G, Samsung Galaxy S 4G on the way (updated) T-Mobile USA's CEO Philipp Humm dropped two big product confirmations today. We can expect both a Samsung Galaxy S 4G (predictable) and an Android-based Sidekick 4G (not-so-predictable). Read more | | Trapster Hacked: 10 Million Mobile Users Potentially Affected Popular online speed trap locator Trapster has been hacked and is notifying its 10 million users their email and password may have been compromised. Read more | | Study: US government spends $36 billion a year maintaining legacy systems Unisys/MeriTalk survey finds agencies' systems are aging, but only one out of three is doing something about it. Read more | | Playboy Uncensored iPad App? Wrong. Typical. Steve Jobs takes his liver on vacation and all hell breaks loose. An uncensored Playboy app? Has the world gone mad? Read more |
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