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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 Blog, blogs, computer, information, News, reference, security, software, Tech, technology on February 6th, 2012 by agturnbull
Posted in Network World on February 6th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
Contrary to reports, the Kelihos botnet has not crawled out of the grave, Microsoft said last week. But the company acknowledged that a new botnet is being assembled using a variant of the original malware.
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Posted in @hackernews, Europe, hacker, hacking, hn, News, noticias, startup, startups, Tech on February 6th, 2012 by iemejia
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 Network World on February 6th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
A key part of any information security strategy is disposing of data once it's no longer needed. Failure to do so can lead to serious breaches of data-protection and privacy policies, compliance problems and added costs.
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