Monthly Archives: July 2014
Enterprise Tablet Adoption Rises, but BYOD Policies Lag
Nearly three out of every four organizations issue corporate-owned laptops (74 percent) and smartphones (71 percent) to their workforces, indicating that smartphone use and...
Private Cloud Market to Reach $69 Billion by 2018
The preference for third party delivered, or managed, private cloud will increase over the next two years as hybrid integration, increased complexity of clouds...
Fears Over Ransomware Grow, Confidence in Security Dips
Apprehension over ransomware is growing rapidly, rising to 73 percent from 48 percent of those who are very or extremely concerned about it, according...
Cyber-Attack Campaign Targets Energy Firms, Industrial Control Systems
A group of online hackers exhibiting the hallmarks of nation-state attackers have infiltrated the networks of hundreds of energy firms and industrial control system...
U.S. Consumers Ready to Adopt Chip-PIN Credit Cards, Survey Finds
Recent data breaches have made U.S. consumers wary of old-fashioned credit and debit cards with magnetic stripes, according to a survey of 1011 American...
Microsoft Banks on Machine Learning to Boost Search, Security
"Mobile-first, cloud-first" may be Microsoft's new mantra, but another term has been has been increasingly creeping into the company's lexicon of late.As one of...
Daily Tech Briefing: July 2, 2014
Samsung is introducing a smaller version of its Galaxy S5 smartphone, just three months after rolling out the new flagship device. The 4.5-inch Galaxy...
Google Cloud Platform Training Tour Planned for U.S., Canada
Google wants its growing group of Google Cloud Platform developers to continue to expand their skills with its products, so it's taking some helpful...
Google DoubleClick Ad Platform Adds New User Training Center
Google's DoubleClick unit has just opened a new online training center, Publisher University, to help DoubleClick users stay up to date with the frequent...
Google Acquires Music-Streaming Service Songza
Google has purchased music streaming vendor Songza for an undisclosed price as Google continues to look for ways to increase the competition with Apple...