Infographic: iPhone users and security concerns Does your organization support iPhones? You might want to share this infographic, which illustrates the major security concerns of iPhone users, to help promote security awareness for this device. Read more Editor's note Today's iPhone security infographic is quite useful. Also, take a look at news about the arrival of iOS 5.0.1 and Dropbox increasing its security. And, don't miss our latest Cracking Open -- the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9. -Jason | News from ZDNet | | iOS 5.0.1 update now available for download Battery bug fix goes public. Read more | Dropbox bolsters client software security If you're a Dropbox user I strongly urge you to install this update immediately! Read more | Microsoft: Where's your $199 Windows Tablet? A tablet computer combining Windows Phone Mango OS and cloud computing could be a mobile monster. Read more | FBI shutters $14m major click-jacking fraud; 4 million computers affected A massive click-jacking fraud led millions of users being served ads when seemingly accessing popular websites, which raked in over $14 million in online advertising revenue. Read more | 'Secret' iPhone 4S panoramic photo taker uncovered iOS 5 has a few secrets up its mobile sleeve, such as a hidden panoramic photo taker. Here's how you activate it. Read more | Google acquires Apture to boost Chrome team Chrome will be getting some new features as well as some new team members with the acquisition of in-page search startup Apture. Read more | BlackBerry finds safe haven in UK, despite a fall in sales While BlackBerry sales continues to suffer across the U.S and Canada, the smartphone has found safe haven in the UK, of all places. Read more | British PM: London's Tech City now has over 600 firms "Tech City", based in East London, and the UK's equivalent to Silicon Valley, has been hailed a success by the prime minister, David Cameron. Read more | Facebook acquires HTML5 apps platform developer Strobe Facebook has acquired Strobe, the developer of a platform for mobile apps built with HTML5. Strobe will continue to be available as a beta, though it's not clear for how long. Read more | Nvidia's Tegra 3 marks start of 'different cores for different chores' Tegra 3 is the first quad-core for tablets and smartphones, but the real story is the fifth core--the start of a trend toward combining different cores on a chip to boost performance and at the... Read more | Mobile Flash: So long and thanks for all the crash. In an inevitable and not-so-surprising move, Adobe abandons its buggy and iOS-unsupported Flash for mobile devices. Surely, there's a celebration afoot somewhere to commemorate the occasion in a... Read more | Pandora CTO: Spotify is complementary to Pandora Maybe there is room for multiple players in the digital music streaming business. Read more | German state to sue Facebook over facial recognition feature German authorities are looking to sue Facebook over its use of facial recognition technology. The argument is over opt-in versus opt-out. Facebook insists the latter is compliant with the law. Read more | Facebook COO: one day, we'll be like caller ID In a recent interview, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg explained how it's normal for Facebook to have privacy issues. She likened it to the problems caller ID faced when the technology first emerged. Read more | | | | About this newsletter | The Tech Sanity Check newsletter gives you my picks for the top tech stories of the day on the products, people, and ideas that are revolutionizing the planet. Jason Hiner TechRepublic Editor in Chief
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