Printing: The Untapped Services Opportunity
Hewlett Packard announced its quarterly earnings this week and quickly analysts asked "what happened to the profit in printing?"The decline in HP printer revenue-the former cash cow of the company-and the struggles of printer vendors such as Xerox, Ricoh and Lexmark-as many financial analysts and reporters believe the green (money) is gone when it comes to ink and toner.Nothing...
Virtualization Hype Must Yield to Business Sense, Expert Says
A new state program in Virginia provides $35,000 grants to businesses that allow employees to telecommute. With virtualization, small businesses can extend applications and data to remote workers, providing the same user experience and productivity capabilities as if they're in the office.But virtualization is not the solution that enables small businesses to participate in this state program, says David...
Nine Ball Worm Enters Hype Cycle
If someone is talking about Nine Ball to you today, it's likely not about a game of billiards. Nine Ball is the latest worm compromising Web sites and infecting unsuspecting PCs with a Trojan. Detected less than a week ago by researchers at Websense, the new worm has already compromised more than 40,000 Web sites worldwide.Sounds serious, eh? Perhaps....
Multifactor Authentication Lags in Adoption
This is one of the more amusing stories I've read in a while. An Ireland utility company says that unencrypted data on four stolen laptops will be difficult to access because the machines require a username and password. "I don't want to minimize the risk but this is not a normal laptop that you could break into that easily,"...
Security Appliance Sales Dip, But Rebound Expected
A new report by analyst firm Infonetics says spending on security hardware and appliances -- such as unified threat management (UTM), intrusion detection/prevention systems and SSL VPN devices -- dropped 16 percent in the first quarter of 2009. The reason: businesses cut or delayed spending on IT systems, which led to cascading declines in security spending.While drop is significant,...
China’s Green Dam: A Harbinger of Security Challenges to Come
To read the coverage of China's "Green Dam" mandate would make it seem that the world was coming to an end and the Internet would be irrevocably changed forever. Mind you, the installation of censorship technology on every computer abhorrent in our society, and I personally disagree with the policies of the Chinese government in this regard. However, let's...