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IN THIS ISSUE

10Essential Business Tech

Technology intelligence forexecutives, professionals,

and entrepreneurs

36Mobile Ofce

Highly useful information forconducting business on the road

58Personal Electronics

Electronics, services, and helpfuladvice for home and leisure

66Business Travel 911

Fast tech support especiallyfor traveling professionals

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Table Of Contents

Business IntelligenceFor TodayBusinesses today pos-

sess a wealth o data—

customer inormation,

sales data, internal pro-

cess inormation, and so

on. Getting a handle on

the data that’s available

and making efcient use

o it can be a challenge.

Business intelligence

solutions exist to tackle

that challenge. Turn to

page 14 to learn more about BI systems and whether they

might be appropriate or your business, and to page 17

or a rundown o today’s top BI solutions providers.

ON THE COVER

Supermicro & The Evolution O Green ITSupermicro has been a leader in server innovation since

1995 when the company released the frst X86 server-

board based on the Orion chipset. Supermicro continues

its industry-leading tradition into the new decade. To

learn more about its innovative green IT products, turnto page 10. Then turn to page 11 or our interview with

Supermicro CEO Charles Liang to fnd out more about

the company and what sets it apart rom its competitors.

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❚ Dell To Expand Cloud

Oerings With Security

Company Acquisition

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❚ Teradata To Acquire

Integrated Marketing

Company

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❚ Eucalyptus To Take

Red Hat Into The Cloud

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❚Citrix To Acquire German

Online Collaboration Business

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❚ Wells Fargo Launches

Mobile Payment Pilot

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❚ Qualcomm Invests In

Ereader Display Factory

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❚ Cisco Extends Consumer

Reach With Videoscape

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IN BRIEF

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❚ New AMD &

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IN BRIEF

TECHNOLOGY NEWS

❚ Google: Imagine I Your Computer

Could Talk

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$3.1 Million Wireless Buy

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❚ Intel Releases Ultra-Small SSD

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Cloud Storage Company

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IN BRIEFTECHNOLOGY NEWS

STARTUPS

❚ Lookout Raises

Additional $19.5M

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❚ Smartphones Get Ready For Mobile Payments

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IN BRIEFTECHNOLOGY NEWS

STATS

❚ A World O

3G & 4G Data

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❚ Enterprise Cloud

Services Revenues

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❚ Company Inormation

On Unsecured Devices

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Source: iSuppli

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Get Power-Efficient

Server TechnologySupermicro Makes It Easy To Go Green

by Nathan Lake

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ESSENTIAL BUSINESS TECHEXECUTIVES, PROFESSIONALS & ENTREPRENEURS

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Get To Know SupermicroSupermicro Explains How It Meets Your IT Needs

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restrictive airlow passages, reduced obstruction using clean cable layout, and easy

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and showcases Supermicro’s innovative leader-

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processor nodes (essentially two servers) in thespace o one.

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job typical o eight servers; in addition, Supermicro uses

Gold Level 93%+ energy-eicient power supplies.

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KEY POINTS

▲ Through intensive

data analysis, business

intelligence ultimately

helps executives improve

business perormance

through better decision-making.

▲ Business intelligence

can extend beyond

the executive level to

provide support or sales-

people, who can use BI

tools to more eectively

target oers.

▲ Platorms and tools

that efciently collect

and present data are

generally considered

more eective than

spreadsheet-heavy analy-

sis approaches that cancreate data silos.

▲ Instead o ocus-

ing solely on BI tools,

experts recommend

identiying the business

problem beore fnding

the right tools or the

business environment.

Business IntelligenceWhat BI Solutions Are & Why Businesses Need Them

by Christian Perry

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“In an economic environment of persistentuncertainty, having better insight and

intelligence from an inside/out perspective andan outside/in perspective is no longer a matter

of discussion in leading firms but a matter ofdifferentiating competence,” says Bill Jeffery,

technology practice leader for Tatum.


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“Too much of business has histori-cally been intuition- or gut-based,and business analytics helps to

measure the gap between whatintuition has produced vs. what timeand history and performance cantell and predict,” says John Lucker,principal, Deloitte Consulting.

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“In tougher economic times, acompany is going to be reluctant tospend money on BI solutions,” saysArun Taneja, founder and consultinganalyst, Taneja Group. “And yet thisis the time where they need maxi-

mum help from their systems.”


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“By giving salespeople a BI solution that bringstogether customer information, past

transaction history, and current promotions,each salesperson can combine exploration of

this data with personal knowledge of his or heraccounts to target offers more effectively,” says

Paul Sonderegger, chief strategist, Endeca.

BI: Stuck In A Silo?

A recent survey by DecisionPath Consulting Research revealed a

pervasive siloed approach to business intelligence among companies

today. According to DecisionPath, the tendency by business owners tocreate their own data repositories or “spreadmarts” leads to expensive

manual processes that ultimately achieve subpar results. When asked

which statement best describes how widely BI is used in their compa-

nies, survey respondents selected the ollowing answers:

SOURCE: DECISIONPATH CONSULTING RESEARCH, OCTOBER 2010

0% BI is used by a ew departments/unctions, but not mine

We don’t currently have BI

BI is used by a ew departments/unctions, including mine

BI is used by many or all company departments/unctions


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KEY POINTS

▲ The key components

o business intelligence

solutions are the data

warehousing hardware,

the database sotware,

and analytic applicationsto make use o the inor-

mation.

▲ BI providers usually

attempt to provide all

components o a BI

solution, but it’s also

possible to integrate BI

sotware with existing

hardware.

▲ BI solutions can be

custom-confgured to

meet your needs, or built

using o-the-shel hard-

ware and applications.

▲ I you need real-time

solutions, pay specifc

attention to the data

warehouse components,

to ensure you have the

resources necessary to

support real-time data

streams.

BI Solutions Are

EverywhereChoose The Right One For Your Business

by Tom Nelson and Mary O’Connor

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“We understand the pressures clients face to increase theoverall performance of their organizations to streamline theirprocesses while also reducing costs,” says Arvind Krishna,IBM general manager, Information Management Software.“Our continued investment in developing innovative technolo-gies such as the new SQL Skin is a clear demonstration of ourcommitment to helping clients meet these challenges.”


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“First, you have to think about making information available in a secure andcompliant way. Then you have to think about making it available to people no

matter what device they’re using,” says Chris Capossela, Microsoft senior VP,Information Worker Product Management Group. “We really do a lot of work

to make sure people can have a great experience, whether they’re using a PC, amobile phone, or a browser. There’s work and thoughtfulness that has to be put

into that from an IT perspective, to make that available to everybody.”

“Oracle Fusion Applications bring a new era of application softwareand technology investments going forward. To set a new stan-

dard, we listened and gathered the best practices from thousandsof customers to deliver the first 100% open and standards-basedbusiness applications. Oracle Fusion Applications define how or-

ganizations innovate, work, and adopt technology,” says SteveMiranda, senior VP of Oracle Application Development.


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“Enterprise innovation and efficiency depends on solutions that are open,capable, and affordable,” says Steve Schuckenbrock, Dell’s president,Large Enterprise. “Dell is uniquely open and un-tethered to legacy assetsand proprietary approaches to deliver against these needs. The CIO agendaisn’t about managing OPEX at the expense of CAPEX, or innovation at theexpense of open. It is about driving efficiency without compromise and rein-vesting the savings towards innovation and returning shareholder value.”


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KEY POINTS

▲ As people share elec-

tronically rather than via

paper, printing becomes

less and less important.

▲ Cloud-based services

continue to grow, even-tually becoming a one-

stop SaaS (sotware as a

service) shop, a “com-

puter utility company.”

▲ The ofce itsel will

largely disappear as the

workorce becomes in-

creasingly mobile and

interconnected.

▲ Social networking

becomes an important

part o how business

relates to—and gets its

marching orders rom—

its customers.

The Office In 2020How Business Will Change Over The Next 10 Years

by Rod Scher

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“Bandwidth has steadily increased to the

point where we can now move a single

video stream reliably in most homes, while

3G/4G technology extends the Internet into

our hands, wherever we are,” says Code 42Software CEO Matthew Dornquast.


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“There’s all sorts of competition

from phones and other mobile

devices, but the PC in various forms

keeps struggling forward,” notes

Andy Woyzbun, lead analyst for

Info-Tech Research Group.

Tis Motorola Android

device (let) embodies

much computing power,

but it is still recognizably

a phone—and experts

say that phones will

continue to play a large

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one example o powerul

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take on much o the

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The Future Of Work: People Distant—But Connected

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Osterman Research President Michael

Osterman says that instant messaging “will

fade from view as a discrete, standalone

technology, and its functionality will be in-tegrated into email, collaboration systems,

desktop productivity applications, etc.”

Fullpower TechnologiesCEO Philippe Kahnsays, “The desktopbecomes less and lessrelevant” as workersbecome more mobile.


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The Facebook EffectGet Practical With Social Media For Business

by Joanna Clay

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“Just as companies

debated about the need

or a Web site presence

in the ‘90s, we are seeing

the same debate happen

today with social media,”

says Windmill Marketing

president Neal Schafer.

Best Buy is considered a leader in social media or business. Te Best Buy

welporce answers tech support questions via witter by replying to its

Followers’ tweets.


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“Companies and executives

need to look at Social

Networking as an extension

not only o their brands,but o their customer service,

public relations and marketing

research departments, as well,”

says THEsmallCOMPANYBLOG’s

Eric Rudol.

Neal Schafer, president o Windmill Marketing, says Reset

San Francisco’s (www.resetsanrancisco.org) social networking

community propels its mission to provide a public orum or

the city’s citizens to discuss and influence public policy.


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KEY POINTS

▲ Beta versions are

available or Google’s

Chrome 9, Mozilla’s

Fireox 4, and Microsot’s

Internet Explorer 9.

▲ Chrome 9 beta ea-

tures sandboxing, a Web

apps Task Manager, and

Chrome Instant.

▲ The Fireox 4 beta re-

lease is slated or release

in the 2011 frst quarter;

it’s likely to roll out with

App tabs, cross-device

syncing, and the Add-

ons Manager.

▲ Internet Explorer 9

beta narrows its ocus on

pinned sites, enhanced

tabs, and hardware

acceleration.

Beta Browsers BattleChrome, Firefox & Internet Explorer Bring New Options

by Joanna Clay

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Each preliminaryversion of Chrome,Firefox, and IE hasits own nuances,so comparing their

capabilities willgive you a goodidea of whichbrowser mightbest streamlineyour particularonline experience.


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Why Worry

About Email?The Importance Of Archiving

by Carmen Carmack

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“All organizations havean obligation to preserve

content, not just thosein heavily regulated

industries,” says MichaelOsterman, president of

Osterman Research.


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How Email Archiving Can Help

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Preserve Your Electronic Records

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Common Misperceptions Of Email Archiving For SMBs

Michael D. Osterman, president o Osterman Research, a market research and industry

analysis business, says there are three common misperceptions about email archiving:

1. Email archiving preserves “smoking guns.” The concern is that email records could

somehow come back to haunt an organization i the inormation was presented during trial,

or example. While there is some credence to this argument, it’s just as likely that archiving

will preserve content that could exonerate the organization by showing seemingly incrimi-

nating statements in their proper context.

2. Deleting email deletes email. Even i an organization purges every copy o every email

message over which it has control, that would perhaps delete only 20% to 40% o the

copies. Email messages that are sent outside the organization can exist at the recipient’s loca-

tion on backup tapes, in PST fles or their equivalent, or in archives. For internally sent mes-

sages, copies are located on employees’ home computers, on their smartphones, and in local

archives. Plus, it’s very likely that i someone sues an organization, they already have copies

o incriminating emails. It is unwise to walk into any sort o legal action, or example, and be

the only one that doesn’t have a copy o your own email.

3. Email archiving drives up the cost o storage. While it is true that storing email content

costs money in terms o additional storage requirements, this is oset by migrating content

to lower cost storage, such as optical, making email systems run more efciently, reducing

the cost o e-discovery by making it easier and aster to fnd inormation, and minimizing the

amount o IT eort required to help employees fnding missing, deleted, or old emails. In

short, archiving can actually lower the overall IT costs incurred by an SMB.

Te Barracuda Message

Archiver 650, an inte-

grated hardware and

sotware solution, is

designed to archive

email messages sent and

received throughoutan organization.

Email Management Practices

A May 2009 survey by the Association or

Inormation and Image Management ound that

o the organizations responding:

33%have no policy

to deal with legal discovery

40

%might need to search back-up tapes to fnd

emails that could be relevant to litigation

84%would have no way to justiy why emails o a

certain age or type had been deleted

19%have the acility to move important emails into a

document or records management system, or a

dedicated email management system

45%were still fling their important emails in per-

sonal Outlook olders


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You’re Going To

Need A Bigger NetworkThings To Consider As Your Business Expands

by William Van Winkle

Ruckus Wireless ofers

a host o access point

and WLAN controlleroptions, including the

FlexMaster centralized

management platorm. Key Obstacles

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Access points with

intelligent signal

optimization, such

as this Ruckus unit,

oten use multiple

antennas and beam-orming technology. Tis

setup provides more

reliable connections over

longer distances.


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Business SoftwareThe Latest Releases & Updates

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The electronic

devices that make

our lives easier

also produce

some unwanted

side eects on

the environment.

Fortunately, manyconsumer electron-

ics manuacturers

are working to cre-

ate products that

keep us productive

while reducing

energy demands

to lessen our

impact on the

environment.

Here, we take

a look at the new-

est environmentally

riendly technology

initiatives.


GreenovationsEnergy-Conscious Tech

by Nathan Lake

Green Home Controls

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STAY SAFEWhen Using The CloudStart Smart, Then Educate

by Seth Colaner

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KEY POINTS

▲ Only use cloud tools

and services that oer

adequate security,

including SAS-70 Type II

certifcation.

▲Use strong username

and password combina-

tions or all online work

and communication.

▲When using public,

unsecured Wi-Fi, use VPN

to ensure a secure Web

connection and avoid

snooping or sidejacking.

▲ Instead o using public

Wi-Fi, access the Internet

using a 3G adapter on

your notebook or create a

mobile hotspot by tether-

ing your smartphone.

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MOBILE OFFICEBUSINESS ON THE ROAD


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KEY POINTS

▲ The “4G wireless”

touted by mobile provid-

ers is actually pre-4G,

with speeds alling short

o 4G expectations.

▲

Mobile phone manu-acturers are struggling

to produce high-unction

handsets that support

even these speeds.

▲ The fnal 4G specifca-

tion won’t be approved

until at least 2012 but

will likely accommodate

all current “pre-4G

technologies.”

▲ The road to real 4G

involves many signifcant

technological consider-

ations beyond transmis-

sion speed.

Will The Real

4G Please Stand UpWhat It Is & Why It Isn’t Here Yet(Despite What You Might Have Heard)

by Jennifer Farwell

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Heavy Reading. “None of themwill be available until 2012.”



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No Connection?When Bad Connections Happen to Good Phones

by William Van Winkle

In July 2009, TerreStar Networks launched

the answer to your bad cell phone reception

problems—literally. Thanks to the now-oper-

ational TerreStar-1 satellite, whenever you run

into coverage trouble, you need only hit the

button on your phone to switch rom the local

cellular network to space-based satellite cover-

age. You’ll have service anywhere in the U.S.,

even up to 200 miles oshore. O course, there

are some caveats. You’ll need to be an AT&T

subscriber. Having the satellite option will add

$25 to your monthly bill beore charges o 65

cents per voice minute and $5 per megabyte

o data. The only phone supporting TerreStar

today is the $1,500 TerreStar Genus, which re-

quires an existing AT&T account to run, looks

like a BlackBerry, and runs the increasingly

out-o-date Windows Mobile 6.5. And when

using the satellite mode, the phone must have

clear line o sight to the southern sky.

I you’re not OK with all o the above and still

want to do something about shoddy cellular re-

ception, you’ve come to the right place.

Why Does Reception Die?

In general, poor phone reception springs

rom three sources: your general area, your

wireless carrier, and your immediate environ-

ment. There are some instances, as with the re-

cent iPhone 4 antenna brouhaha, when a phone

can have a signifcant impact on reception

perormance, but Jonathan Bacon, director o

marketing at wireless products manuacturer

Wilson Electronics (www.wilsonelectronics.com),

notes that cell phones must pass rigorous test-

ing by carriers, so the odds o getting a “bad”

phone model or reception is airly minimal.

The other actors mentioned are more likely to

be the culprit.

Your area. Even major carriers such as AT&T

and Verizon don’t cover large tracts o the

U.S. landscape. Moreover, you might have

great service in one spot, move 20 milesdown the road, and suddenly fnd yoursel

in a coverage dead zone. Usually, carriers

with a major presence in a region will tend

to blanket urban centers and reeways, but

ultimately the network deployment dol-

lars ollow the people. In more sparsely

populated or traveled areas, the chances o

weaker coverage increase.

Your wireless carrier. Actually, blaming

the carrier or dropped calls and shoddy

signals is only partly justifed. “It has more

to do with the requency carriers use totransmit signals than the phones or wheth-

er the technology is GSM or CDMA,” says

Bacon. “For example, AT&T and T-Mobile

transmit at 1900MHz while Verizon and

Sprint transmit at 800MHz. Typically,

800MHz has an easier time traveling ar-

ther. That said, perormance has more to

do with how the carrier builds out its net-

work than any other variable.”

Specifcally, the number o towers a

carrier has in an area and the eective-

ness with which a user’s connection gets

I you’re requentlyoutside o cellular

network coverage

and still need to

connect, consider

a satellite link to

the erreStar-1,

shown here beore

its 2009 launch.


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The relationship between signal and your

phone’s battery should be kept in mind. In ar-

eas where you have a weak signal, your battery

will drain much aster because the phone is in-

creasing power in order to boost the signal or

your transmission back to and rom the tower.

What Can You Do?

Ensure compatibility. Make sure your phone

uses a radio compatible with the cellular networks

present in all o the areas you travel. I your phone

lacks a radio that operates on the same band as the

network you’re in, you won’t be able to connect.

This is why some business phones work on three

or even our bands.

Boost your signal. Companies

such as Wilson Electronics and

Larsen Antennas (www.larsen-an

tennas.com) manuacture a ull

range o antennas made or ev-

erything rom rootops to car

trunks to boats. You can also

purchase an atermarket

external antenna that

plugs directly into your

phone’s antenna port

i it has one. Unortu-

nately, the trend or

more compact smart-

phones has orced an-

tenna ports rom mostnew phones. In such

cases, an amplifer may

do the trick. Amplifers

such as the Wilson Sleek

($99) use an external vehicle an-

tenna and an amplifer (which

doubles as a cradle in the Sleek’s

case) that gets power rom the

car’s 12V outlet. You set the

phone next to or into the am-

plifer device and communicate

through the phone via Bluetooth.Consider 4G options. With pre-4G (chie-

ly HSDPA, LTE, and WiMAX) and 4G technolo-

gies now coming to market, expect that these can

deliver superior perormance over 3G but not

necessarily better reception capabilities. Environ-

ment and carrier network deployment will still

determine signal quality, regardless o the tech-

nology’s potential speed. I anything, rushing

into 4G could yield worse reception experiences

until carriers fll in their coverage dead spots.

Focus on the improvements you can make today

or top reception results. ▲

passed rom one tower to the next as the phone

moves (known as “hando”) are critical. For

example, when Clearwire debuted its WiMAX

service in Portland, Ore., we experimented

with having a passenger connect to the WiMAX

network as we drove through downtown—anarea where coverage should have been dense.

We were never able to sustain a connection or

more than a minute either because the new

service lacked enough towers to eliminate cov-

erage gaps or because our connection wasn’t

being handed o eectively rom tower to tow-

er. We were told that Clearwire would increase

its tower coverage as service subscription lev-

els rose. This is a predictable pattern with new

wireless services and one you should be careul

o when investigating new “4G” oerings.

Your immediate environment. Concrete

and metal are death to radio waves, which is

why cell phones have such a hard time op-

erating in many large buildings. Even some

window tinting, which can contain iron, may

block cellular signals. Wood and stucco will

pass signals, but the wire sometimes used to

support stucco can interere with cellular con-

nections. Note that vegetation, particularly

leaves on trees, can block phone signals, which

is why people in cabins will sometimes be able

to achieve a weak connection in winter but no

connection in the summer.

Obviously, distance rom the nearest toweralso aects reception. Under optimal line o

sight conditions, a phone can sustain a connec-

tion with a tower cell rom more than 20 miles

away. More commonly, a tower might have only

a two-mile radius, and some towers in dense ur-

ban areas cover less than a mile.

Proximity to cell

towers and how

well the carrier’s

network hands of

signals between

those towers can

make or break your

wireless reception

experience.

Not all signal boosting

methods have to be

awkward or expensive.


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The Shifting Mobile

LandscapeEmbracing The Potential & The Perils Of Smartphones

by Jennifer Farwell

As the popularity o smartphones continues

to grow, the challenges and opportunities

presented by these ever-more-powerul

devices continues to stymie the business world.

The potential o smartphones, the applications or

which could let workers take and submit orders,

check inventory, update contact in-

ormation, and more, is tantalizing.

However, the security concerns

about saely enabling that access

and preventing other, detrimental

behaviors are considerable.

Caught in the middle are IT

sta and decision makers, who

walk a thin line between protect-

ing company assets and increas-

ing workers’ eectiveness in the

feld. As a result, some frms lock

down (or lock out) devices that could boost their

bottom line while others play ast and loose withcompany security. Neither solution, say third-

party frms and analysts, is a long-term strategy

or success.

By The Numbers

I there is any doubt that smartphones have

become an important fxture on the business

landscape, it is quickly ading. Research frm In-

Stat reported in November 2010 that the SOHO

(small ofce/home ofce) sector or smartphones

will grow 18% by 2014 (compared to 2010) and

smartphone purchases across all business sizeswill increase 14% by that time. Furthermore, ac-

cording to research frm Ovum, smartphones are

increasingly subject to “consumerization”—being

employed or both business and personal use. Ac-

cording to a November 2010 report, 75% o busi-

nesses allow smartphones to be used or personal

use, and 48% have employees who use personal

smartphones or business purposes. (A similar

study, conducted by KRC Research and Synovate

or Juniper Networks, ound that nearly 44% o

respondents used smartphones or both personal

and business purposes.)

Despite these high rates o dual-use, the

attitude regarding smartphones is disconcert-

ingly ractured. O the businesses surveyed,

80% believed such a practice makes corporate

inormation vulnerable to attack, yet only 52%

required any orm o authentication or mobile

users accessing corporate inormation. A mere

9% imposed best practices such as two-actor

authentication with one-time pass codes. Mak-

ing this particularly disconcerting are statistics

like those o the KRC/Synovate report, which

ound that 81% o respondents accessed the

company network without the employer’s

knowledge or permission; 58% on a daily basis.

These scenarios, which European security ex-

pert Roger Dean recently called “the elephant in

the room,” make smartphone security a business

necessity, yet many companies continue to dance

around it. Why? Because employees—and in-

creasingly businesses—cannot imagine operatingwithout them.

Paradox Found

“With smartphones, people can do all the

things they did beore on their PCs,” says In-Stat

Chie Technology Strategist Jim McGregor. Yet,

he points out, the smartphone does not have the

long history o vulnerabilities that accompanied

PC growth. This, he says, has lulled people into a

“alse sense o security.”

The vulnerability quotient will only grow as

more users migrate away rom Research in Mo-tion’s BlackBerry line, long an industry standard

due to its robust enterprise-side security. “Three

years ago, i there was a smartphone policy, it was

BlackBerry Enterprise Server on the back end,

BlackBerry on the ront end,” says Karim Toubba,

VP o product marketing or Juniper Networks’

(www.juniper.net) Service Layer Technologies

Business Group. “About a year and a hal ago, we

started to see Android and Apple” in the corporate

environment. “People started to bring these devic-

es into the company and demand to be able to use

them,” which let IT sta “caught o guard.”

Juniper Networks has

developed a smartphone

security suite or companies

that incorporates a single,

central interace or all our

major device types.


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“I cannot tell you how many companies are o-

ering Droids or Evos or iPhones rather than Black-

Berrys now,” says McGregor. “We are all [using]

Droids.” The Verizon Droid to which McGregor

reers runs Google’s Android OS. That poses par-

ticular challenges, says McGregor, because thereare so many dierent versions o the OS running

on widely divergent devices. Yet, it is poised to

control hal the smartphone market within fve

years, according to research frm Piper Jaray.

Furthermore, he notes, smartphones, unlike

PCs, do not use standardized hardware confgura-

tions. “To the consumer, they look very much the

same, but on the other side o the wall it is com-

pletely dierent,” he says. “With phones, i the

motherboard or graphics processor or processor

core is dierent,” he notes, “you have to specially

port [rewrite to work with the hardware] the OS

and applications.”

That makes it ar more challenging or compa-

nies seeking to develop broad-based protection

or smartphones and all the applications they run.

Furthermore, companies hoping to maximize the

benefts o these devices can make the problem

worse. “Corporations want workers to be able to

use these tools,” he says. “They may be custom-

izing applications or writing applications and that

can create problems o their own.”

Making It Work

Making these technologies work or the en-

terprise is a problem or which, McGregor says,

“there is no single fx.” He says companies need

“multiple security barriers—the networks, the

data that is remote, the applications on those de-

vices.” He says that a lot o those technologies

have been around or a long time and that they

will slowly move toward the mobile market.

Toubba says his frm already has a handle on

a solution. Juniper, which has a user base o ap-

proximately 30 million or its secure SSL VPN

(Secure Sockets Layer virtual private network)

corporate network access solution or laptops,

extended that protection to iPhones a year ago.

Then, in October, it debuted an umbrella secu-

rity suite (VPN; antispam; antivirus; frewall;

and remote lock, wipe, and locate) that oers

a common enterprise-side dashboard or An-

droid, BlackBerry OS, iOS, and Symbian.

Chas Arnold, VP o sales or Atlanta-based

technology service provider Dynasis (www.dyna

sis.com), says his frm recommends a cloud-based

model that enables secure log-in through Citrix or

another Web portal. Dynasis also suggests clients

use remote device management products paired

with strong policies regarding session log-outs,

code-based phone locks, and more. “I you sit your

phone down and someone picks it up, they could

have access to your corporate CRM

(customer relations management) sot-

ware, your accounting sotware—anyapplication you are running across

your network server,” says Arnold.

“Firms are caught with the dual

challenge o enabling productivity and

harnessing the power o mobile de-

vices beyond the laptop,” says Toubba,

“while also ensuring they can actually

secure the inormation and the device.”

Wakeup Call

McGregor echoes Toubba’s point, but is less

than confdent all companies will eectively avoidproblems. “The threats are much more complex

than they were a decade ago,” says McGregor.

“Companies need to look at encryption tech-

niques on both handheld devices and the rout-

ers.” Ironically, he says, many mobile processors

already have security blocks built into them, but

equipment manuacturers have yet to use them

to ull advantage. “Eventually, we are going to

have a major cyber attack,” he says. “Hopeully

the wakeup call will be small, and the intervening

advances in hardware and sotware will provide

enough support.”▲

Karim oubba, VP o product marketing

or Juniper Networks, says that “Firms are

caught with the dual challenge o enabling

productivity and harnessing the power o mobile devices beyond the laptop while

also ensuring they can actually secure the

inormation on the device.”

Jim McGregor, In-Stat chie

technology strategist, says that

“With smartphones, people can

do all the things they did beore

on their PCs,” but he cautions

that this has given employees a

“alse sense o security.”


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New For Your TabletThe Latest Software & Updates

by Joanna Clay

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For Your SmartphoneThe Latest Software & Updates

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Protect Your

Privacy OnlineWays To Minimize The Risks

by Carmen Carmack

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Privacy Options For Popular SocialNetworking Sites

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within the Connecting

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the Applications And

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Online Tracking Information And ToolsData broker companies track Internet use through your Web browser, search engine, and

online activity. Third-party cookies and code hidden on Web pages track your movements

online, record the kinds o searches you perorm, and capture personal inormation. Rather

than your name, a code stored on your computer is associated with the inormation. The

code and related data can be sold to companies that want to target advertisements and con-

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SAVE ENERGY

At HomeMobile Devices & Apps That Can Help

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THE GOOGLE INFLUENCE

A ree Web-based tool with more oomph than

typical energy-efciency calculators is Google’s

PowerMeter (www.google.com/powermeter),

energy-monitoring sotware that lets home owners

view data relating to their home’s energy consump-

tion at any time rom any Internet-connected com-

puter. Beyond displaying how much energy a home

used daily, weekly, and monthly, PowerMeter can

estimate annual energy bills, help create an energy

budget and track the results, display always-on

power sources, compare your home’s electricity

usage to others, and more.

Using PowerMeter requires having a smart meter

installed in the home as supplied by one o Google’s

utility partners or using a compatible monitoring

device such as the TED 5000 Home Energy Man-

agement System ($199.95 and up; www.theenergy

detective.com) or CurrentCost’s real-time handheld

Classic or ENVI monitoring units (www.currentcost

.com). Beyond displaying PowerMeter data on the

TED 5000 device’s display, the TED system supports

Footprints Sotware that makes it possible to confgure

the system to display power usage data on an iPhone

and other smartphones.

Meter Reading iPhone app

Wattulator iPhone app


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BILE OFFICE

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work, or i you don’t know the name o

the network you want, contact the network


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Win7, you can opt to see the

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Most private, and also some public, net-

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protect users and themselves rom intrusion.

You’ll encounter WEP, WPA, and possibly WPA2.

The Wireless Network Connection dialog box

may provide the network type. I not, here’s a

hint. WEP security keys always contain 26

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an SSID) and, i the network is secure, a secu-

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manage network connections, leaving you un-

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select Network Connections. Right-click your

wireless connection and click Properties. Click

the Network Settings tab and select the Use

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to the network, name, and credentials, you will

need the network security protocol and encryp-

tion type (TKIP or AES).

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open the available networks list as described

previously and click Advanced or Change Ad-

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works tab, click Add. In Vista/Win7, open the

Network And Sharing Center. In Vista, clickSet Up A Connection Or Network at the top

let o the display; in Win7, click Set Up A New

Connection Or Network (under Change Your

Network Settings). Select Manually Connect

To A Wireless Network and click Next.

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given it (uppercase and lowercase). In Vista/

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through network

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determine i a network

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(WinXP displayed).

▲ In Vista/Win7 the Network And Sharing Center is your

portal to setting up new connections, changing network

profiles, and more.


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i c ggl pjc p d dipl ill b d; cck bk’ ml pcifc. W p cl pl i Wid pm i ci, , k xc ig.

Windows XP. Rig-click blk Dkp d lc Ppi m pp-pm. I Dipl Ppi id, click Sig b. U dp-d m lc cd dipl. Slc Exd M WidDkp O Ti Mi cckbx d click Appl b. Y Dkp bckgd ldpp pjc.

Windows Vista. Rig-click blk Dkp d lc Plizi m pp-p m. I Plizi dilg bx, lcDipl Sig. U dp-d m lc cd dipl. Slc Exd T DkpO Ti Mi cckbx d click Appl.

Windows 7. Rig-click blk Dk-p d lc Sc Rli. U Dipl dp-d m lc cd di-

pl, d lc Exd T Dipl m Mlipl Dipl dp-d m.

Wi7 l pp-p dipl lcig c ill b pjc. P Wid k-P big p lci: Dic-c Pjc ( pjc dipl ),Dplic (mi cmp‘ Dkp pjc), Exd ( pjc xi Dkp), d Pjc Ol ( p-

jc mi dipl).

Finicky Focus

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mili i i ml cig -m. I ’ ig m, b k dj c; v l j c ci.

Al, ig-qli imgv c. Hvil cm-pd img d lk v bi bl pjcd lg iz. Liki, vid imgi li m Wbpg; ig-li img idl p c i gl.

Display Cuts Out

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Using A Network Projector

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, ic cc cmp’ k d c.Vi d Wi7 mkccig kpjc impl p-c. W cc cmp’ -k, click S b, lc All Pgm,click Acci, d lc Cc T A NkPjc. I k cci izd p bk‘ fll i blckig c-

ci, click b ll cci. I k m k pjc, lcSc F A Pjc. I k dd pjc, lc E T Pjc Add.

Oc mk cci, NkPi id ill p d mii-miz kb. Nx, ill p N-k Pi id d lc P pd pi Rm m pi. T k p-

jc i d mi cd bk.▲

▲ Beore you can

connect to a network

projector, you’ll usually

need to know the

projector’s network

name or address

and password.

▲ Extending the

Desktop onto the

monitor/projectoris a good way to

ensure the projector

is working correctly.

▲ For the best audio quality, connect your notebook’s

audio outputs to the projector or to separate audio

amplifiers/speakers. Don’t use your notebook’s head-

phone jack to make audio connections.


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Troubleshoot Notebook

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ill ccig. I im qi ig d m d c d , p dld p b fv cd.

How To TroubleshootUnexpected PC Reboots

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I ’ illig pd pi b, ld dmi c m il b ig g .

A iq, b pibl, pblm iBIOS icmpibili. I pgdd vi Wid ld -

bk, cck i mc i d BIOS pd.

A c b i d bg div icmpibilii. I pblm bg illig d- , p pic-

l pgm, cck i mc/dvlp pd.O clpi b dig m

pi p . W cmmdpil vicig p pblm.Hv, bild-p i mig m

b bl lv l.

How To Prevent Overheating

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mci pd d b -mvd, xc d i z c b ligl dippd i lcl. I dbi d i p v pig, mii(USB) vcm ill b lpl. W d’ c-mmd cmpd i i p, bci c pi bld xcivl dc dmg.

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plc pick b bld pv xciv piig.

How To TroubleshootShutdown Issues

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Problems


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dvlp/mc pibl li illi pblm.

I Wid d’ d xpci , li m b impl djig p ig. Rig-click b ic i

Sm T d lc P Opi. Tk cig C W Clig T Lid D.

How To TroubleshootA Dead Notebook

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How To Troubleshoot Power Issues

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How To Check The DisplayI v kig, b pblmic, di-

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bd p bk mdl

d gpic cip/cd, b ld b bl k mb ig. I cl illd vid cd, m l d cl i mc m imi.

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How To ResolveA Failed Optical Drive

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Service It

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cmbl i c’ fd ici pi, k pil ic.▲

▲ Some power and/or

display problems can be

attributed to incorrect

power settings.

▲ Regularly installing

updates can resolve

some notebook issues

(especially driver

incompatibilities and

bugs) you encounter.

▲Windows XP/Vista/7

are set to reboot upon

system ailure by deault, so

a random reboot is a symptom o an underlying problem.


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Malware


Deal With A

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i’ll c pibl im— 2 .m., j b g, -- bipi.

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The Right Tools

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W ic pblm, cmmf ci i ip d -ivi pgm mci i

lp. T’ g id, c, b b pd b m.

Ti c v bi im d ill lp ici m vpickd p il fg Wb.

Y c pi-lvl ivipgm m McA d Smc p-d micll, b i m pgm,i’ gd id mll pd b lg cig pc.

F xmpl, ig m-id Spb Sc & D, ll v d i click Upd ic lid c dld

ml diii. A ’v d-ldd l diii d dcil, click Sc F Pblm ic dll pmp cmpl pd.

Al, i’ gd id m ip pgm. Ad-A mLv (; .lv.cm) i gd pi. Agi, i xcll p-gm c l ll l i, click Cck F Upd N lik bm c b cig mci.

▲ Beore scanning your machine with a security

utility such as Spybot Search & Destroy, be sure

to check or updates.

Infected Notebook


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i i p i b id d did’pcifcll pi b d i, d’ click i.

J cl id d g b bi.Tkll, vi I Expl,

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Know WhatYou’re Running

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Fi, c impl mi d cl p-gm cmp i ig p. T di i WiXP, click S, R, d pmcig i id pp. Click OKd click Sp b. S ig i

blk ? I i idi il, i’ pgd b d’ d i p mci.

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p pgm ill dipl i l p. Simpl click pgm iglig i d click Dibl b. Alivl, c pml mi pgm b clickig Rmv b.

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The Best Defense

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b lik O d click OK.N cm p ddig l

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Evli ic l id m pg.

Don’t Click That

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A lil cl g lg . G milm m d’ k? Immdil ii pig i. Ev i mil pgm -

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Al, m pp-p ll , d’click ig jmp licid c climig b bl fx vi ppblm. T pp-p m c-i p d vi i gi clmg m OS. A gl l mb i

▲I a program has

a blank entry, it’s

probably sae to

deselect it. Be careul

in this menu, though.

You can cause more

harm than good i

you don’t know what

you’re disabling.

▲ Clicking pop-up

ads as you browse the

Web can expose your

machine to all sorts

o malware horrors, as

well as scams. Utilities

such as Google oolbar

(ree; toolbar.google

.com) include pop-up

blockers to help

protect your computer

rom such nuisances.


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Smartphone


Emergency CPR Techniques

Revive A Dead

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Sot Reset

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T-Mobile G1. Wi G1 pd , ld Hm d Ed k imll. W igl i xclmi pi,p Hm d Bck k.

Android (Other). All miig Adidmdl impl p ccl pm . J p d bck gi.

BlackBerry (QWERTY keyboard). Pd ld ALT-CAP-Dl k cmbii.T dipl g blck cd d BlckB .

BlackBerry (SureType keyboard). P ALT-CAP d Rig Si-Dl k. W c g blk, l k.

BlackBerry (touchscreen). T Blck-

B d mv b l 30cd. Rill b d d-vic bck .

BlackBerry Storm, Storm2. S -ll ivlv pllig b, b cl S R pp i vilbl OTA(v i). A ill pp, m dibl Cmpibili Md: Tp Opi,Advcd Opi, d Applici; p BlckB M b d iglig Di-bl Cmpibili Md. N, lc S R- d p R b.

BlackBerry Torch. P d ld ALT-RigSi-Dl k.

HTC FUZE, Touch Cruise, Touch Dia-

mond. I ip p’ li l lcd bm dvic.

HTC HD2, Touch Pro, Touch Pro2. U mll bjc, c pick l, p b, ic i lcd

bl b d SIM cd l.iPhone (all models). P d ld

Slp/Wk b p iPd Hm b. Ci ld b

b (ppximl 10 cd) il dipl g blk. Y’ll i Appllg iP b.

Nokia (all models). P p d mv b 30 cd. R-ill b d p p .All, c cd *#7380#

d lc Y.Palm Pre Plus. I p’ m

ill civ, lc Dvic I, c R

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Windows Phone 7. T p ,d bck . Alivl, c mv b 30 cd, ill b-, d p bck .


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All other smartphones. Y c gll p-m b pig p d mvig b d plcig i 30 cd.

Hard ResetA d i l-dic pi p i c ig, ic m ill l ll d d illd pplici. B- pmig d , ill -mv mm cd m p; c cv d m cd l.

Android (all models with unctioning menu

systems). O llig m-bd m pmig d ld k, dpdig p d vi Adid.

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Fm Hm c, p M, Sig, Pi-vc, d Fc D R, d ll -c ici.

Fm Hm c, p M, Sig, S-ci, d Fc D R, d ll -c ici.

W m m i’ cil, l-lig p-pcifc pi ill b lpl pmig d .

T-Mobile G1. Wi G1 pd , pd ld Hm-Ed k il i-

gl i xclmi pi. Op QWERTYkbd d p ALT-W.

T-Mobile G2. Wi G2 pd , pd ld Vlm D b il p P b. A Adid lg pp,l Vlm D b. P VlmD b gi, lc Cl Sg, d p P b. P Vlm Up c- .

Motorola Droid. T p . P dld P-X k c p i -cv md. Nx, p d ld Vlm Up-

Cm k dipl cv m. SlcWip D/Fc R m m, d lc Rb P.

BlackBerry (all models). Rmv b di b 30 cd. Rill b d p .

HTC FUZE. Wi dvic d , pd ld L d Rig k. Wil ld-ig k, l p d ld R b bm dvic USB p. Tx dipl ill k c-fm .

HTC HD2. Wi dvic pd , pd ld Vlm Up d Vlm D b.Wi vlm b dpd, p d l Ed/P b. W ig mgdipl, l vlm b. Nx, p

Vlm Up b pm . Pig b ccl .HTC Touch Pro, Touch Pro2, Touch Diamond.

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iPhone (all models). Fm Hm c,p Sig, Gl, R, d R All S-ig. Ti ci ll pc b ipplici d d. I d’ k, g Hm c d p Sig, Gl, R,E All C, d Sig. Ti ill dl lld d pplici d iP c- cdii.

Nokia (all models). Wi p pd i db md, p *#7370# d lc Y pmpd. Y m d Lck Cd cf-mi. T dl lck cd i 12345.

I p d’ , pig O/O b, *, d 3 imll.

Palm Pre Plus. Op Dvic I, p R Op-i, d p Fll E b. Ad p Fll E b cd im.

Samsung Behold II. Fm Hm c, pQick Li; d p Sig, R Sig, dM R. Nx, pd d p Y.

I p i z ’ , p d mv b. Wi 30cd b i b. P dld Vlm D, Sd, d Ed b.Kp ldig b d il gpicpp dipl, d p M

k .Samsung Captivate, Epic 4G, Vibrant. P p d mv b. Wi 30cd d i b. P d ld Vlm D b il pig d lig P b. P Vlm D b lc Cl Sg, d p P

b. Cfm b pig VlmUp b.

Windows Phone 7. Slid l d p ic. Nx, Tp Sig d lc Ab, cll

bm dipl, d p R Y P. ▲

▲ o perorm a hard

reset o the Palm Pre

Plus, open Device Ino,

tap Phone Reset

Options, and then

tap Full Erase twice.

▲ o sot reset a

Samsung Galaxy S

phone, press and hold

the Volume Up and

Power buttons or five

seconds. Te phone will

turn of and back on.

▲ o perorm a sot

reset on the BlackBerry

Storm or Storm2,

remove and then

reinsert the battery,

or download the Sot

Reset application OA.



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US Airways

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Rvi iildii (800) 622-1015

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United Airlines

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Avis

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Budget Rent A Car System

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Dollar Rent A Car

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TDD (800) 232-330124- did ic(800) 235-9393

Enterprise Rent-A-Car

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Hertz

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(800) 654-3001TDD (800) 654-2280Exd l (800) 654-4174Billig imi

(800) 654-4173Cm li

(888) 777-6095

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TDD (800) 328-6323

Payless Car Rental

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Thrity Car Rental

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TRAVELSERVICES

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Homewood Suites

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TrailsHappy

I n t r i g u i n g G e a r , N e w & A r o u n d T h e B e n d

by Jennifer Farwell

4G-Ready XOOM Sports

New Android OS■One o the most intriguing tablets to make a splash debut at

this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show, the Motorola

XOOM appears to have a better shot than most at challenging

the dominance o Apple’s iPad. Measuring 9.8 x 6.6 x 0.5 inches

(HxWxD), the XOOM is a little smaller than the iPad yet eatures

a slightly larger display (10.1 inches vs. 9.7 inches) and a higher

resolution (1,280 x 800 vs. 1,024 x 768). The XOOM will be among

the frst devices to run Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb, an OS

designed specifcally or tablet use. It will eature Bluetooth, sup-

port or Adobe Flash video and Flash-based Web sites, HDMI

output, and corporate email sync (including Exchange and Google).

Verizon Wireless will carry a 3G/Wi-Fi version in Q1 with supportor an upgrade to Verizon’s 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) net-

work in Q2; a subsequent version will come with 4G LTE built in.

Pricing has yet to be announced.

A Slider For Business& Pleasure■ This nimble slider phone sports a multitouch, capacitive,

4.1-inch WVGA AMOLED (800 x 480 resolution) display,slide-out QWERTY keyboard (plus an on-screen touch

keyboard), a 1GHz processor, 8GB or 16GB o nonremov-

able storage, Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), Bluetooth 2.1 EDR, GPS,

and 3G (HSDPA/HSUPA; averages 1 to 2Mbps on the

T-Mobile network). It runs on all our GSM/EDGE bands

(850/900/1,800/1,900MHz), making it suitable or interna-

tional use. The Venue Pro oers a nice mix o business and

recreational eatures, with Windows Phone 7 and Ofce

Mobile, XBox Live gaming and a Zune music player, a 5MP

autoocus/ash camera with HD (720p) video capture and

FM radio. Dell began shipping the phone to customers who

pre-ordered the phone in mid-December.


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