Privacy-focused Blackphone starts shipping to early adopters

	Privacy-focused Blackphone starts shipping to early adopters | Free Wi-Fi networks in SF, San Jose join hands through Hotspot 2.0
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	BYOD stipends may soon go away (if IT gets its way) For employees, nothing gets more personal than money. So when companies began doling out payments to offset Bring Your Own Device wireless service bills, employees cheered. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Ericom Software   BYOD is Here to Stay, But Organizations Must Adapt As more and more employees bring their personal laptops and mobile devices to the workplace, IT teams are dealing with new security, compliance, support, management and cost challenges associated with BYOD. Learn More In this Issue Privacy-focused Blackphone starts shipping to early adopters Free Wi-Fi networks in SF, San Jose join hands through Hotspot 2.0 And there's something else wrong with Comcast's Xfinity customer-based Wi-Fi hotspot plan ... Google quietly announces plan to kill Quickoffice apps after beefing up Drive's editing Why one CIO is saying 'no' to BYOD Police test smartphones over cellular for undercover use during Boston Marathon WHITE PAPER: iRise Why Projects Fail CIOs are expected to deliver more projects that transform business, and do so on time, on budget and with limited resources. An IDG survey reveals the top three drivers of project failure and offers CIOs insight into how to prevent or overcome project failure. Learn more Privacy-focused Blackphone starts shipping to early adopters The wait is almost over for early adopters of Blackphone, an Android-based smartphone that promises enhanced privacy and security. Read More   Free Wi-Fi networks in SF, San Jose join hands through Hotspot 2.0 San Francisco and San Jose are now at the cutting edge of another tech trend, and one that has nothing to do with smartwatches or social-media startups -- not directly, at least. Read More   And there's something else wrong with Comcast's Xfinity customer-based Wi-Fi hotspot plan ... A blog post by Speedify reveals that Comcast's plan has yet another downside; it shifts the cost of powering the service to the end user. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Windstream Cloud Computing eGuide In this eGuide, CIO, Computerworld, and InfoWorld offer advice, tips, news, and predictions regarding cloud implementations in the coming year and beyond. Read on to learn how to make cloud work for your organization. Read more Google quietly announces plan to kill Quickoffice apps after beefing up Drive's editing A little more than a year after Google introduced Quickoffice for Android and iOS, the company quietly announced that the apps will soon be pulled from Play and the App Stores. "With the integration of Quickoffice into the Google Docs, Sheets and Slides apps, the Quickoffice app will be unpublished from Google Play and the App Store in the coming weeks," the company said on the Google Apps blog. Read More   Why one CIO is saying 'no' to BYOD A growing backlash threatens to thwart the BYOD trend. The CIO of a large electrical contractor explains why his company will "never have a BYOD environment.' Read More   Police test smartphones over cellular for undercover use during Boston Marathon During April's Boston Marathon, police in Brookline, Mass., piloted a wireless system that let undercover police and supervisors to use ordinary iPhones and Android devices to communicate with rugged Land Mobile Radios over LTE and other commercial cellular networks. Read More
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