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Will Motorola Take Android Down Social Path?

Motorola is reportedly working to create its first Android-based smartphone. The first phone based on Google's open mobile operating system -- T-Mobile's G1 -- will show up Oct. 22, and Motorola will apparently be joining the party at an undisclosed later date. Still, a fashionably late entrance could be just fine

Alcatel-Lucent speeds up laptop security

Networking giant Alcatel-Lucent has revamped its OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian (NLG) adding HSPA support to the laptop management device.The NLG is a PCMCIA card with an embedded Linux operating system. It slots into a notebook and provides a range of features to help IT departments remotely secure, monitor, manage and locate mobile computers over 3G and protect the data if the device is lost or stolen.

Previously the NLG was available only on CDMA-based 3G networks, but it is now compatible with next-generation high-speed 3G GSM/HSPA networks, thereby expanding its coverage and capabilities.

In a recent study by Alcatel-Lucent, 76 per cent of respondents in the US and Germany said that it is necessary to protect a lost or stolen laptop with more than encryption, including the ability to locate the device using GPS and remotely revoke access to data.

Recomind launches new e-discovery tools

Enterprise search and legal discovery firm Recommind has launched a new electronic discovery product designed to offer highly regulated firms an effective means to locate relevant data and carry out an early risk assessment.

Recommind Insite Legal Hold features the firm's concept search technology that works alongside traditional keyword search to find only the relevant data and reduce instances of false negatives, according to the firm's vice president of marketing, Craig Carpenter.

The product will also allow practitioners to review and assess data before it is collected and processed. Built-in processing functionality, meanwhile, could save firms up to 80 per cent on the usual processing and renewing costs, claimed Carpenter.


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