Monthly Archives: August 2014
IT Leaders Focus on Talent, Reducing Complexity
By reducing technology complexity and realigning talent, among other things, world-class IT organizations deliver services at 22 percent lower cost with greater effectiveness and...
PayPal, Google, Amazon Get High Marks for Identity Trust
IT users rank PayPal, Google and Amazon as their employers’ top three preferred identity providers to their organization, while Yahoo was ranked the lowest...
Linksys Debuts 28- and 52-Port Managed Switches
Wireless connectivity and networking specialist Linksys launched a line of managed switches that are available in a 28- and 52-port rack mountable chassis, with...
Backoff Retail Malware Pulls User Info From POS Systems
The U.S. government is warning of a newly discovered form of retail malware, known as Backoff, that is rooting out user information from point...
Federal Court Ruling Orders Microsoft to Violate International Law
Lawyers for Microsoft say they will appeal a federal judge's order that they turn over the contents of a customer's email that's stored on...
Google Scraps Proposed Floating Product Showplace Barge in Maine
Google has confirmed that it has sold a four-story floating barge in Portland Harbor in Maine, where it had been building what it called...
Oracle Enterprise Mobility Survey Shows IT Spend Rising
Oracle announced the results of a recent enterprise mobility survey that indicates that mobile-related IT expenses are expected to grow by more than 50...
IE11 Embraces Mobile Web in Windows Phone 8.1 Update
Microsoft's upcoming Windows Phone 8.1 Update will include "hundreds of Internet Explorer 11 enhancements" to provide a more mobile-friendly Web browsing experience, announced the...
SAP Mobile Place App Support Expands to Unmanaged Devices
SAP has expanded its Mobile Secure mobility management portfolio with the addition of Mobile Place, a mobile application management (MAM) tool.Mobile Place gives SAP...
Livescribe Smartpen 3 Might Upend Your Workstyle, in the Best Way
Rows of journalists with laptops teetering on their knees and meetings in which eye contact is sacrificed for the efficiency of typing while we...