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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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Ereader Display Factory
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❚ Cisco Extends Consumer
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IN BRIEF
TECHNOLOGY NEWS
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❚ New AMD &
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Microprocessors
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IN BRIEF
TECHNOLOGY NEWS
❚ Google: Imagine I Your Computer
Could Talk
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❚ Intel Releases Ultra-Small SSD
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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
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3G & 4G Data
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Mobile Phones ForecastTo Ship With NFC
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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ESSENTIAL BUSINESS TECHEXECUTIVES, PROFESSIONALS & ENTREPRENEURS
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
ront and rear access or Supermicro’s win and Double-Sided Solutions.
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processor nodes (essentially two servers) in thespace o one.
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QWhat does Supermicro’s commitment to
“green” technology entail?
Save space and energy
utilizing Supermicro’s
93%+ energy-eicient
power supplies
and 88 high-density
hard drives in the
space that typically
houses 16.
wo GPUs in the space o two typical servers produce 2
eralops, saving energy and keeping I green by doing the
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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ESSENTIAL BUSINESS TECHEXECUTIVES, PROFESSIONALS & ENTREPRENEURS
“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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ESSENTIAL BUSINESS TECHEXECUTIVES, PROFESSIONALS & ENTREPRENEURS
“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
part in business.
Samsung’s Galaxy ab is
one example o powerul
mobile devices that can
take on much o the
communicative and
computational workload
away rom the oce.
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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
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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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ESSENTIAL BUSINESS TECHEXECUTIVES, PROFESSIONALS & ENTREPRENEURS
“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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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
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oten use multiple
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setup provides more
reliable connections over
longer distances.
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CompanionLink Releases DejaOfce V1.9CRM For Android
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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.
ESSENTIAL BUSINESS TECHEXECUTIVES, PROFESSIONALS & ENTREPRENEURS
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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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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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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W E BWeb Notes
New & Updated Sites & Services
by Seth Colaner
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When you’re away from the office, your productivity doesn’t have to stop.
The Web is exploding with mobile sites and online services, including office
tools, news alerts, entertainment, and any number of other useful items. Just
as quickly, it seems, others go under, are bought by larger companies, or
simply evolve into something different. We’ve found some of the freshest and
most useful sites, services, and updates for you to consider.
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ARCHOS GOES TABLET CRAZY
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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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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-
tent specifcally to your interests and profle.
For more inormation about how you can prevent online data collection and tracking, reer
to the ollowing resources:
Get detailed inormation about managing tracking cookies in all types o Web browsers
Learn more about the current state o Web privacy, data collection, and inormation
sharing rom this research report by the UC Berkeley School o Inormation
Opt out o some behavioral targeting tracking and advertisements
Get act sheets in the Online Privacy & Technology section or detailed inormation
about monitoring online activities and keeping inormation private
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Web browsers ofer
privacy protections, but
most are not enabledby deault. For example,
Internet Explorer 8
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use InPrivate browsing,
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SAVE ENERGY
At HomeMobile Devices & Apps That Can Help
by Blaine Flamig
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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
SINESS ON THE ROAD
Hotspots Wisely
BUSINESS TRAVEL 911ON-THE-GO TECH SUPPORT
Use Wi-Fi
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How To Protect Yourself
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big id.mic.cm d c-ig d Fill ( vi Wid).
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How To ConnectThrough Windows
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I you are connecting to a secure net-
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
characters as you type or
confrmation. I the network
is WEP and you do not see
this option, select Shared. Se-
lect an encryption type i youhave one. Otherwise, keep
the deault. Ater entering all
this inormation confguring
the desired settings, click OK
or Next to connect.
How To Evaluate Security
Most private, and also some public, net-
works use one o several security standards to
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
characters. WPA and WPA2 security keys are
eight to 63 charac-
ters in length.
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Take Charge
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BUSINESS TRAVEL 911ON-THE-GO TECH SUPPORT
host. You’ll need the network name (also called
an SSID) and, i the network is secure, a secu-
rity key or passphrase. Select the desired net-
work and provide the key i prompted. (See
“How To Evaluate Security” beore you com-
plete this step.)I you use WinXP, your network card may
manage network connections, leaving you un-
able to connect using our instructions. To give
Windows control, click Start, select Control Pan-
el, click Network And Internet Connections, and
select Network Connections. Right-click your
wireless connection and click Properties. Click
the Network Settings tab and select the Use
Windows To Confgure My Wireless Network
Settings checkbox.
How To Set Up A Manual Connection
I you cannot locate the network you want
(some networks choose not to broadcast their
SSIDs), you can set it up manually. In addition
to the network, name, and credentials, you will
need the network security protocol and encryp-
tion type (TKIP or AES).
To set up a manual connection in WinXP,
open the available networks list as described
previously and click Advanced or Change Ad-
vanced Settings (depending on the service
pack you have installed). On the Wireless Net-
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.
Provide the inormation exactly as you were
given it (uppercase and lowercase). In Vista/
▲ WinXP does not
ofer network profiles,
but you can turn of
File And Printer sharing
through network
connection properties.
▲ Windows XP/
Vista/7 all provide a
wireless connection
display that lets you
determine i a network
is secure or open
(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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BUSINESS TRAVEL 911ON-THE-GO TECH SUPPORT
Troubleshoot Projector
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An Ounce Of Prevention
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Get Connected
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pjc i cd d li pjc .
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Problems
▲ I you’re going to use
a remote to control your
presentation, be sure to
amiliarize yoursel with
it ahead o time. A live
presentation is a bad time
or on-the-job training.
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BUSINESS TRAVEL 911ON-THE-GO TECH SUPPORT
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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.
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Using A Network Projector
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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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BUSINESS TRAVEL 911ON-THE-GO TECH SUPPORT
Troubleshoot Notebook
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Problems
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BUSINESS TRAVEL 911ON-THE-GO TECH SUPPORT
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How To TroubleshootA Dead Notebook
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How To Troubleshoot Power Issues
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How To ResolveA Failed Optical Drive
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▲ 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
BUSINESS TRAVEL 911ON-THE-GO TECH SUPPORT
Deal With A
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The Right Tools
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▲ 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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Know WhatYou’re Running
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BUSINESS TRAVEL 911ON-THE-GO TECH SUPPORT
The Best Defense
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▲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
BUSINESS TRAVEL 911ON-THE-GO TECH SUPPORT
Emergency CPR Techniques
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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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