I’ve been playing around with an Android Galaxy Nexus running ICS and have been overly impressed. The operating system is polished and has a intuitive workflow. Increasingly, I’ve been thinking about the utility of using a phone as a desktop (after watching the YouTube video below). It seems that the fantasy is now a reasonable [...]
DISA has released STIGS for common smartphones including Android and IOS. “The Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) and the NSA Guides are the configuration standards for DOD IA and IA-enabled devices/systems. Since 1998, DISA Field Security Operations (FSO) has played a critical role enhancing the security posture of DoD’s security systems by providing the Security [...]
That was quick….Original request “Verizon said in May that it was looking into offering multiple-device data plans, and now it’s official — CEO Lowell McAdam announced at a UBS investor conference that the new plans will be available sometime in 2012.”
In reviewing all the associated data plan requirements with our mobile phones, I’m becoming increasingly disgruntled. We need a formalized movement to get carriers to stop treating data plans as device dependent and focus on account-based aggregated data plans. Why do I need a data plan for our various iPhones and iPads on a device [...]
Apple released iOS 5 to the masses on October 12th with an intriguing set of new features for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users. Purchasers of Apple’s new iPhone 4S got access to an extra feature called Siri, a speech-recognition “personal assistant” that’s built into all Apple iPhone 4S smartphones. You can speak to Siri and [...]
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