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Get ready for a month full of giveaways. From July 9 through the end of the month, InformIT will be having 17 days of giveaways. Each week has a theme to make sure that there’s something YOU will be excited to win!

Telecommunications has come a long way over the years. Annabel Z. Dodd demystifies the current trends and technologies that are important to you - from cloud services to social networks, mobile video to telepresence.

After installing an Android update to his phone, Traenk wonders aloud what p2p really means.

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Are you the proud owner of a new iPhone? Have an old BlackBerry that you don't know what to do with? Never fear. Following are 10 ways you can still enjoy your Blackberry (albeit temporarily):

Every month Pearson imprint brands partner with Network World to offer up expert authors as featured bloggers for their community subnet sites. Focused on Cisco, Microsoft and Open Source, each community offers a variety of hot discussions, exclusive sample chapters and giveaways to their readers.

Viruses and malware in general are a threat to mobile devices, similarly to how they are a threat to desktop computers. They can affect both static data and communication of data, according to the way they work.

In order to prevent unauthorized access to the device and the data it contains, access control is necessary, of course, and you can identify users by means of passwords, tokens and so on. Mobile devices have wireless capability to connect to the Internet and office/home computer systems. Wireless capability poses a number of specific security risks in addition to typical network associated risks.

The use of mobile devices has exploded in a relatively short time and is one of the most promising business sectors in IT. Can you imagine a world without mobile phones?

What is a mobile device and its general classifications? In this 5-part series, understand the issues, threats, vulnerabilities, safeguards and security countermeasures of mobile devices and mobile networking.