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Posted in E-Week on February 6th, 2012 by E-Week
AT&T was ranked No. 1 in a survey on who provides the best mobile application development and testing services. Verizon and IBM ranked second and third, respectively. - AT amp;T took
the top spot in a recent survey asking which vendors deliver the best mobile
application development and testing services, according to IDC.
In the survey
involving 350 U.S. respondents, International Data Corp. asked enterprise users
about their perceptions of vendors who offer s...
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Posted in E-Week on February 6th, 2012 by E-Week
Smartphone sales surged past PC totals even with the iPad helping numbers for the first time ever during the fourth quarter, according to Canalys. - Smartphone
sales surpassed those of PCs for the first time ever, during the fourth quarter
of 2011, according to research firm Canalys. What's more, smartphones also outsold
PCs even with the inclusion of tablets, such as the Apple iPad, into the mix.
In all,
vendors shipped 158.5 million smar...
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Posted in E-Week on February 6th, 2012 by E-Week
Apple's iOS is the more misbehaved mobile OS, according to Crittercism crash reports from November and December. Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, may change that–for the worse. - Android took a number of
shots at Apples iOS during the Super Bowl, courtesy of Samsung, and now comes
another hit: iOS applications crash more often than Android applications do,
according to data from Crittercism.
Crittercism, which provides
developers with real-time, actionable crash repor...
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Posted in E-Week on February 6th, 2012 by E-Week
Businesses continued to invest in infrastructure upgrades, along with new software applications and mobile devices, including tablets. - IT spending increased by 5
percent at constant currency in 2011, despite the worsening economic situation
in Western Europe and volatility in other regions, according to the IDC
Worldwide Black Book. Emerging markets continued to lead the way, with tech
spending in the BRIC countries (Brazil, Ru...
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Posted in E-Week on February 6th, 2012 by E-Week
Android OEMs Motorola and HTC are curbing their smartphone and tablet production in 2012, while Samsung holds the line. - Google
(NASDAQ:GOOG) likes to boast that there are more than 200 million devices,
including over 300 different types of smartphones and tablets, based on its
Android operating system in the market worldwide.
But while
consumers are dazzled and perhaps dizzy from the sheer volume of choices in
...
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Posted in E-Week on February 6th, 2012 by E-Week
Symantec provides one solution for all backups whether they are based on tape, disk, or in physical or virtual environments. - Security firm Symantec is taking aim at the often complex and time-consuming process of backup and recovery services with the release of NetBackup 7.5 and Backup Exec 2012 software and cloud services, as well as Backup Exec Small Business Edition for midmarket companies. In addition, the companys Ne...
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Posted in E-Week on February 6th, 2012 by E-Week
Aberdeen researched nearly 300 companies to determine how well they were performing on the core business of human capital management. - iCIMS, a provider of software as a service (SaaS) talent acquisition solutions for the small and midsize business (SMB) market, recently co-sponsored the Aberdeen Group's January 2012 quot;Human Capital Management Trends quot; report. In the study, Aberdeen found that best-in-class companies are us...
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Posted in E-Week on February 5th, 2012 by E-Week
Philippe Kahn, an icon in the software and overall IT industry, is slated to talk about his invention of the camera phone as part of a Best Buy commercial that will air during the Super Bowl. -
IT industry
pioneer Philippe Kahn is set to star in a Super Bowl advertisement during the
big game Sunday evening.
Kahn, who
founded software tools powerhouse Borland International and other concerns, is
slated to take part in a Best Buy spot focusing on tech innovators during the
Super Bowl...
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Posted in E-Week on February 5th, 2012 by E-Week
Researchers examined the state of security in SCADA and industrial control systems and presented an ugly picture of the vulnerabilities and challenges in addressing the issues. - CANCUN, Mexico Recent reports painted a bleak picture of
the security issues plaguing industrial control systems, but the situation is exacerbated
by the fact that administrators are naïve about the dangers, researcher said.
Researchers presented some alarming findings about the state
of secur...
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Posted in E-Week on February 5th, 2012 by E-Week
Thousands of computers still infected with the DNSChanger Trojan will not be able to access the Internet after the FBI shuts down its temporary servers March 8. - Some of the
major organizations still have not removed the DNSChanger Trojan from infected
computers, despite the fact that the botnet's command-and-control
infrastructure has been under the Federal Bureau of Investigation's control for
the past few months.
The primary
function of the DNSChang...
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