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BlackBerry Tip: How to Avoid a “Bricked” or “Nuked” BlackBerry

CIO.com's Al Sacco offers advice on one way to help ensure you never find yourself with a BlackBerry that's stuck in an endless reboot cycle or frozen on a BlackBerry error screen.

How to Protect Your Smartphone from Bad Apps

Antivirus software maker McAfee released a set of five new tips to help ensure that your smartphone remains secure and free of potentially harmful mobile applications.

iPad Invasion: Get Ready or Get Out of the Way

Is Microsoft Too Big to Fail?

As long as Microsoft keeps bringing home the bacon from its business software and investing in the right markets (cloud, phones, tablets) its victories will edge out its screw-ups.

BlackBerry Sure Ain’t “Green”: RIM Blasted by Greenpeace

Greenpeace included BlackBerry-maker RIM for the first time in its Guide to Greener Electronics, which ranks electronics manufacturers on a variety of sustainability efforts. Unfortunately, RIM took the last slot out of 15 leading gadget makers, sign

iPad at Work, Kindle Fire at Play

Despite some overlap, the Apple iPad and Amazon Kindle Fire are very different devices: One travels in a backpack or briefcase, the other sits nicely on a nightstand.

Competitors, mechanics, referees, and economists

Different types of business executive have very different goals, which depend on what angle they view their world from. As an IT leader, you have to know which type you're dealing with.

Making Mobile Manageable: What You Need to Ask

If you're not looking for an enterprise mobile device management (MDM) solution already, you're behind the curve. Here are six key questions to consider when searching for an MDM provider, from CIO.com blogger Mark Gibbs.

Microsoft’s Greatest Successes and Biggest Failures

Give Microsoft credit; it never does anything small. Its successes rock the world. And when it screws up, it screws up big time.

What Adobe’s Decision to Kill Mobile Flash Means to You

Adobe has decided to do away with mobile Flash. CIO.com's Al Sacco explains what the news means to mobile users, developers and platform makers.