As our society mobilises and more individuals use smart devices to access corporate data, cyber criminals are developing more sophisticated …
IE9 best at protecting against drive-by downloads: NSS Labs
Internet Explorer is better at defending against drive-by downloads than competitors’ browsers and the contest isn’t even close, according to …
Google cache servers driving interconnection in Africa, forum says
The availability of Google cache servers has encouraged more African Internet and content providers to exchange content locally, according to …
Champions of value addition 2011
The combination of global economic changes and new technology life cycles has made global IT vendors more accountable for the …
Epicor sued over alleged ERP project failure
Epicor is being sued by one of its customers over an ERP (enterprise resource planning) project that allegedly racked up …
HP offers integrated management for IT services
In what the company describes as a premium service, Hewlett-Packard (HP) is offering to help the world’s largest organisations impose …
Norton reveals smartphones threats
Cybercrooks are increasingly capitalising on the mass adoption of mobile devices by exploiting smartphone users at home or at work. …
Private clouds: Storage architectures are key to maximising efficiencies
Today, enterprises across the world are crafting cloud strategies and starting to invest in private clouds to take advantage of …
Thomson Reuters Unleashes New Products with a Shared IT Infrastructure Built on NetApp
Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. The company combines industry expertise with …
IBM launches new services model for municipal planners
Based on a pilot project with the city of Portland, Oregon, IBM is offering a new services and software model …
African development hubs focus on mobile apps
Increased support of innovation hubs, availability of Web-based public data and increasing adoption of mobile phones have focused the attention …
A class apart
The American University of Sharjah is making calculated investments in the latest that technology has to offer to make its …
Fusion-io to buy IO Turbine to reach virtualised servers
Flash storage vendor Fusion-io has agreed to buy IO Turbine for up to US$95 million to extend its on-server cache …
VMware backpedals on price changes after customer criticism
After criticism over new restrictions on the amount of virtual memory customers can deploy before having to buy new licenses, …
Former Microsoft exec named new U.S. CIO
Longtime Microsoft executive Steven VanRoekel is set to become the nation’s second federal CIO, replacing outgoing federal CIO Vivek Kundra. …
Microsoft debuts software for homebrew gadget builds
Hardware hackers building their own gadgets may want to take a look at a new offering from Microsoft that promises …
Flash storage moves closer to CPUs
In a bid to maximise the speed advantage of solid-state storage, more vendors are promoting approaches that move it closer …
Microsoft kicks off $250,000 security contest
Microsoft has launched a $250,000 contest for researchers who develop defensive security technologies that deal with entire classes of exploits, …
Intel extends cloud research to consumer devices
Intel is opening up two research centres at Carnegie Mellon university that will develop technology around delivery of real-time information …
Clearwire plans LTE network, seeks $600M
Clearwire plans to deploy an LTE network in addition to its existing WiMax system but estimates it will need to …