Monthly Archives: November 2011
Apple, IBM, Oracle Among Enterprises That Fail Social Engineering Test
Some of the biggest companies-including Apple, IBM and AT&T-were easily tricked into giving up potentially sensitive information during a contest that featured a variety...
Financial Services Specialists Flock to the Cloud: Gartner
A rapid shift in attitude toward cloud banking is happening within the financial services industry, according to Gartner. A survey by the IT research...
Carbonite Launches ‘Personal Cloud’ for SMB, Consumer Markets
Carbonite, a relatively high-visibility cloud storage provider due to its strategy of buying lots of television and radio commercial time, has advanced way beyond...
Google ‘Why These Ads’ Is Olive Branch to Privacy Watchdogs
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Oct. 31 is providing more insight into how ads its search and Gmail users see are relevant, a move to appease privacy...
Small Business Employment Index Reflects Soft Labor Market: Report
Small businesses created 30,000 new jobs in October, but employees are working fewer hours and making less money. While small business employment grew by...
Motorola Laying Off 800 to the Tune of $31M
Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) is cutting 800 jobs and closing facilities, a downsizing that will cost the phone maker a total of $31 million as...
IT Executives, Compliance Managers Disagree on Security, Cloud Controls
IT staff and compliance officials don't see eye-to-eye on cloud security issues and on their organization's policies, according to a recent report from Ponemon...
RIM BlackBerry Devices on ATandT Aim to Hold Consumer Ground
Research In Motion's BlackBerry Bold 9900 and Torch 9860 will debut on AT&T's 4G HSPA+ network Nov. 6. The carrier also plans on making...
Check Point Buys Dynasec for GRC Software
Check Point Software Technologies will acquire Israel-based Dynasec to enhance its governance, risk-management and compliance (GRC) portfolio to help customers grappling with regulatory requirements.CheckPoint's...
Oracle Has Salesforce.com in Its Crosshairs: Analyst
Salesforce.com (NASDAQ:SFDC) may be performing well in the enterprise software market now, but at least one analyst fears for the software-as-a-service provider's future with...