Info4security.com (2011-01-04) – IBM has unveiled new software that will help employees work smarter on the road, while significantly enhancing the power they have in choosing their own mobile device for work. Brian Sims reports. The new software will allow employees to collaborate with co-workers inside their organisation and personal contacts outside, all on the …
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As of the end of December 2010 according to NetMarketShare.com the most used browsers are as follows: – Internet Explorer (57.08%), has dropped 4.5% since February 2010 – Firefox (22.81%), has dropped 1.42% since February 2010 – Google Chrome (9.98%), has gained 4.37% since February 2010 – Safari (5.89%), has gained 1.44% since February 2010 …
That’s a very good question. Don’t you agree? I came across a very good article about a future of the password in the PCWorld by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. “When the popular Website Gawker was hacked into recently, more than a million user IDs and passwords were released. If you were one of the people compromised, …
I hope that the Lenovo executives has done a very good job analyzing the enterprise tablet market based on pricing this at a range of $1,000. According to PCWorld (2011-01-03), Lenovo will show its first tablets this week as it moves to make a mark in the fast-growing market led by Apple’s iPad and Samsung’s Galaxy Tab. The …
NYTimes (2011-01-03) – Allegedly Facebook has rased $500 million from GodlmanSachs and a Russian investor (Digital Sky Technologies). On Sunday night, a number of Goldman clients received an email from their Goldman broker, offering them the opportunity to invest in an unnamed “private company that is considering a transaction to raise additional capital.” The email sent …
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Internet Retailer (2010-12-30) – A new study from Pew Internet and American Life Project finds that 65% of web users have paid to download or access some kind of online content. The survey finds digital music and software are the most popular online digital buys, each with 33% of online consumers reporting purchasing those goods. …
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PCWorld.com (2011-01-02) – Researchers at a Scottish university claim to have made a breakthrough in the drive towards more powerful processors while conserving energy too. The team, from Glasgow University, led by Dr Wim Vanderbauwhede, have succeeded in squeezing 1000 cores on a single chip. To demonstrate the chip’s effectiveness, the research team used it …
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Skype my become illegal in China based on the People’s Daily Online post. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said all VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) phone services are illegal on the Chinese mainland, except those provided by telecommunications carriers China Telecom and China Uniom. The ministry gave no timetable on when the ruling …
Mashable.com (2010-12-29) -Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has signed a government order that lays out the groundwork for the transition of federal bodies and agencies to use free software, including Linux, by 2015. The 25-point document (available here) outlines specific steps the government must take in order to move off proprietary software and onto free and/or …
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Skype has released a more detailed explanation today on what actually caused the service outage this month. According to the Skype Blog (2010-12-29), “On Wednesday, December 22, a cluster of support servers responsible for offline instant messaging became overloaded. As a result of this overload, some Skype clients received delayed responses from the overloaded servers. …
