There were a lot of reasons for Gartner researchers to give a gloomy economic outlook at its Symposium/ITxpo conference here, …
80% of BYOD unmanaged: Ovum
While the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon has entered the mainstream with 70 percent of smartphone-owning professionals using their personal devices to …
Infected computers rented as proxy servers on the black market
Cyber criminals are using computers infected with a particular piece of malware to power a commercial proxy service that funnels …
Gartner: Cloud to grow 20% this year to $109B market
The cloud computing market will grow almost 20% this year to become a $109 billion industry, research firm Gartner predicts, with business …
Worldwide security spending will approach $86B in 2016
Worldwide spending on security is expected to touch the $60 billion mark in 2012, up 8.4 percent from $55 billion …
Gartner: BYOD heralds biggest economic shift in computing since PCs
Bring your own device (BYOD) programmes have provided the most radical shift in the economics of client computing for …
Quadrupling broadband speed can boost GDP above $8bn
Quadrupling the speed of broadband in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) could boost the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by …
Half of organisations use cloud for sensitive data
About half of the information technology and security professionals asked whether they use external cloud-based services for sensitive or confidential data said …
Windows PC sales hit low as tablet sales soar in Q2
Shipments of Windows laptops and desktops have hit new lows as tablet shipments continued to rise during the second quarter …
Connecting the world
Everybody’s heard of Internet2, the network consortium that connects universities and research communities across the USA. Less have heard of …