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Wi-Fi router’s ‘pregnant women’ setting sparks vendor rivalry in China

When one Chinese technology vendor, Qihoo, launched a new Wi-Fi router with a safety setting for “pregnant women,” a rival vendor took offense to the implication that their routers might be dangerous.

The Guardian reports that Xiamo took to its page on Chinese social media site Weibo to denounce Qihoo’s pregnant women mode as a “marketing tactic,” and clarify that “Wi-Fi usage is safe.”

“We firmly oppose, and feel ashamed of, those who create rumors and arouse instability for business purposes,” Qihoo wrote in its post, according to the Guardian.

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Network World Colin Neagle

First Nadella: Women shouldn’t ask for raises. Second Nadella: Yes they should

Bottom line: I can’t help but believe that what Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella first said about women asking for pay raises – that  they shouldn’t do it – is what Nadella actually believes and that his attempts to take it back are simply damage control.

Granted, it’s impossible to know for sure what someone else actually believes, but the two viewpoints Nadella expressed mere hours apart yesterday would seem impossible to reconcile.

Appearing at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Nadella was asked for his advice to women who are not comfortable asking for a raise.

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Network World Paul McNamara

The truth about Samsung Knox for Android security – Women Citizen


Women Citizen

The truth about Samsung Knox for Android security
Women Citizen
It was February 2013 when Samsung announced Knox, its containerization technology for higher-end Samsung Android devices. Knox is meant to create a virtual partition on Android devices that would insulate corporate-managed apps and data from attack, 

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