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• From IT to ET: Cloud, consumerisation, and the next wave of IT transformation

  By Johna Till Johnson | 23 April, 2012 21:32

  IT as we know it is over.

• Hold the phone: retailers eye payments via smartphone

  By Maria Korolov | 26 March, 2012 22:26

  An emerging technology called Near Field Communication will soon give new meaning to the phrase "tapped out."

• Want better Wi-Fi? Five things you need

  By Logan G. Harbaugh | 27 October, 2011 08:27

  Laptops used to be the only devices on the company's wireless network. But Wi-Fi has become a ubiquitous standard used by a host of devices -- including desktop PCs, laptops, netbooks, tablets, smartphones, printers, storage devices, and projectors.

• Gartner: The top 10 strategic technology trends for 2012

  By Michael Cooney | 19 October, 2011 04:41

  ORLANDO -- The technology that makes up many of the systems in the ITworld today is at a critical juncture and in the next five years everything from mobile devices and applications to servers and social networking will impact IT in ways companies need to prepare for now, Gartner Vice President David Cearley says.

• Patent madness! A timeline of the Android patent wars

  By Brad Reed | 21 September, 2011 06:26

  History may look at Android as the tech industry's Helen of Troy: The OS that launched a thousand suits.

• Chinese developers take a bite of the Apple

  By Maria Korolov and Wang Fangqing | 22 August, 2011 20:39

  If you've ever gone to Apple's mobile app store and purchased games like High Noon, Gamebox1 or Doodletruck, then you've downloaded an app from the burgeoning Chinese software development community.

• Hands-on review: Xoom battles iPad 2 to a draw

  By Wayne Rash | 16 March, 2011 05:44

  We got our hands on the two hottest products in the tablet computing market -- the Motorola Xoom and the iPad 2 and put them to the test. This was a 15-round heavyweight fight and in the end, the Xoom stood toe to toe with the reigning champ, iPad 2.

• Android 3.0 tablet: Five key features

  By Brad Reed | 28 January, 2011 03:36

  Tablet application developers can rejoice now that Google has released its software development kit for Android 3.0, the new edition of the platform designed specifically for tablets.

• Networking gets faster, more media-savvy

  By Yardena Arar | 08 January, 2011 13:19

  Home is where the network is: That's the mantra of networking vendors at the Consumer Electronics Show 2011 in Las Vegas this week.

• Why Intel's Infineon buy is a smart move

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 31 August, 2010 08:18

  Intel has been on a buying binge lately. Just two weeks ago the world's largest chip maker agreed to acquire security vendor McAfee for $7.68 billion, and today it announced plans to buy Infineon Technologies' Wireless Solutions (WLS) division for $1.4 billion.

• RFID tags arrive on store floor as retailers go after ROI

  By Thomas Wailgum | 29 July, 2010 05:11

  For the retailing industry, the adoption of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology this decade has been one long, strange journey: Periods of irrational exuberance followed by times of great frustration and confusion; expensive pilot projects riddled with technical, standards-based and cost complexities; and a widespread belief among those retailers or CPG manufacturers that were forced into the RFID universe that it is a technology solution in search of a problem.

• Wi-Fi WPA2 vulnerability FAQ

  By John Cox | 29 July, 2010 08:49

  So this guy at AirTight Networks says Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 has a "hard shell on the outside, but a soft underbelly inside"due to an overlooked vulnerability, and an attacker can decrypt traffic that's been encrypted with WPA2. Is this total panic time?

• Android and Apps

  By Mark Gibbs | 26 July, 2010 15:23

  The more I use the HTC Incredible, the more I like it. And the thing that really makes the Incredible, er, incredible is its operating system, Android<.

• Wi-Fi still not universally free, consumers want it to be

  By Thomas Wailgum | 07 August, 2009 02:44

  About a year ago, CIO.com examined the Wi-Fi hotspot pricing strategies of retailers Starbucks, McDonald's, Borders and Panera Bread in "Free Wi-Fi: Should Retailers Offer It to Customers?"

• University of Queensland deploys "world's largest" 802.11 wireless network

  By Tim Lohman | 29 May, 2009 11:43

  The University of Queensland has deploying what it claims is the world’s largest 802.11n wireless network to underpin research, access and collaboration at the university.