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BlackBerries are fine but the iPhone isn t allowed by the UK s GCHQ signals intelligence center U.K. government ministers are not allowed to use Applersquo iPhone but Blackberries are fine, presumably for security reasons, according Health Secretary Simon Burns .Burns was asked a question on Monday in Parliament by Tom Watson, a Labour member of Parliament active in technology issues. The written answer was posted on Parliamentrsquo Web site.Watson asked specifically what kind of mobile devices have been issued to officials in Burnrsquo minist
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polene ca lackBerry is allowed. The Department does not issue Apple iPhones to staff as these are not approved for Government use by the CESG [Communications Electronics Security Group], Burns said. CESG is the Information Assurance arm of GCHQ [Government Communications Headquarters] which aims to protect and promote the vital interests of the United Kingdom by providing advice and assistance on the security of communications and electronic data.BlackBerries have been approved by CE
stanley termos SG to handle restricted data when configured according to that organizationrsquo guidelines, according to RIM. Customers include the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.K.rsquo Defense Ministry and more than half of the U.K.rsquo police forces, the company said.Applersquo iPhone has seen wide adoption among large organizations, including b Nyws The rise of tablets: Why we don t need laptops or phones anymore
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polene cyme ng off-the-shelf -- lt;igt;waylt;/igt; off-the-shelf -- offerings at retail stores One of the potentially hottest items in the software aisle of U.S. electronics retailers this Christmas season is, if you ask Santarsquo load-bearing reindeer, just an empty box..Mac pronounced lsquo;dot-Macrsquo; , an online service from Apple Inc., has been the second most-popular Mac offering at retail so far this year, according to The NPD Group Inc. For $99, buyers get one yearrsquo access to Web-based storage, e-mail and address book syncing between their iMacs and iPhones, among other features. Still,
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polene scover therersquo nothing in there other than a license key, said Chris Swenson, an analyst at the Port Washington, N.Y.-based NPD Group.The conventional wisdom is that software as a service SaaS is finishing what piracy, open-source and the Web started: killing the packaged software market.Computer retailers long ago bought into this premise. Go to any Best Buy Co. or Circuit City Stores Inc. store and observe the scant aisle space for software compared with PCs or hardware peripherals. But in fact, the packaged software market is still growing. According to NPD Group, U.S. retail sales of packaged software so far this year including those by online retailers are up 10%.Tallies have been lifted by new versions of old favorites: Adobe Systems Inc.rsquo CS3 design suite, Microso