A study from digital security company viaForensics paints a stark picture of the vulnerability of smartphone user data. viaForensics evaluated …
Smartphones boom while mobile phone sales drops: Gartner
Mobile phone sales floundered during the second quarter, in the wake of the earthquake in Japan. But smartphone sales continued …
U.K government to shut down social media if riots resume
Scrambling to deter future violent rioting, the U.K. government is considering shutting down social networks such as Twitter and Facebook …
Apple warned Intel to slash power consumption
Apple threatened to drop Intel as a component supplier unless it produced chips with drastically lower power consumption, it has …
US agency releases cyber-education plan
The U.S. government will work to develop an “unrivaled” cybersecurity workforce and broaden the nation’s pool of skilled cyberworkers under …
Study finds Android app-makers careless with some data
A lot of the software written for Google’s Android mobile phones falls short when it comes to user privacy and …
OpenLogic to launch tool to build open source software support
Developers and enterprise IT shops will soon have another option for PaaS (platform as a service) in the form of …
APEJ security software reports 7.5% growth in 2010
The IT security market in the Asia Pacific region except Japan (APEJ) was busy last year with security experts stepping …
Microsoft awards fellowships to eight researchers
Microsoft has awarded this year’s Research Faculty Fellowship to eight researchers who will receive grants up to US$200,000 each. The …
Cloud use greatly outpaces understanding: NPD
Despite huge investments in advertising on TV and on billboards– particularly in airports– survey after survey shows that when it …
Citrix buys VDI personalisation vendor
Citrix has acquired RingCube, a vendor of software for personalising desktops within virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI), the companies announced. Financial …
Apple files suit against Motorola Xoom in Europe
Apple isn’t just going after the Samsung Galaxy Tab in Europe, it’s also attacking the Motorola Xoom. Apple’s lawsuit, which …
Amazon launches free Kindle Cloud Reader app for Web browsers
Amazon yesterday introduced the free Kindle Cloud Reader application, which allows users to access Kindle books instantly from a Web …
CIOs must embrace mobility or be swept aside: IDC
CIOs in the Asia Pacific face being “swept aside” if they ignore mobility as an issue in the enterprise, IDC …