http://pcbadge.com Recent PC News, Reviews, Help and more Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:00:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The surge of iPhones and other smartphones in the enterprise is a major headache for IT departments. Now, there are three new medicines that may help to ease that pain. All three are hosted solutions for managing and securing smartphones, essentially mobile computers accessing corporate networks and... http://pcbadge.com/three-new-options-emerge-for-managing-smartphones-in-the-enterprise/ http://pcbadge.com/found-photo-hulk-is-a-blackberry-user/ Lecturing professors nowadays face a room full of students paying full attention -- to their laptops.A lecture, by definition, is a method of teaching whereby a person talks and an audience pays attention. But a laptop is an interruption machine that fragments attention. Lectures and laptops are inc... http://pcbadge.com/laptops-and-lectures-are-incompatible-so-ban-lectures/ Playboy Enterprises has inked a deal with  2K Games for the product-placement of Playboy magazines all by scenes in the game Mafia II.  Posted via email from Mike Elgan's Lifestream http://pcbadge.com/what-sort-of-man-reads-playboy-a-criminal/ Two weeks before a browser hacking contest is to kick off in Vancouver, British Columbia, Apple on Thursday patched 16 vulnerabilities in Safari, 12 of them critical bugs that could be used to hijack a machine. http://pcbadge.com/apple-plugs-16-holes-in-safari-as-pwn2own-looms/ Microsoft that week made available a final release of ASP.Net MVC 2, which provides a Model View Controller pattern for building Web applications leveraging ASP.Net. http://pcbadge.com/microsoft-releases-mvc-upgrade-for-building-web-apps/ Cisco Systems plans to extend unified communications beyond individual enterprises, introducing a new appliance and a protocol that the company hopes will become an industry standard. http://pcbadge.com/cisco-to-expand-video-calling-with-ime/ The availability of pre-orders isn’t the only new development in iPad-land. Apple plus updated its site with a plethora of new details about its latest and greatest device, from knowledge on the 3G networking capabilities to a more in-depth description of the iBooks application. Let’s take a loo... http://pcbadge.com/apple-dishes-new-details-on-ipad/ Google will start on Thursday a public experiment of a Blogger layout customization tool that the company says significantly broadens publishers' ability to modify the look of their blogs. http://pcbadge.com/google-tests-revamped-blogger-layout-design-tool/ A Canadian interface design firm accused Mozilla of stealing user interface (UI) elements for a development tool in the browser maker's Jetpack project, which aims to simplify add-on making. http://pcbadge.com/design-firm-accuses-mozilla-of-ui-plagiarism/