The Internet, long viewed as a tool to expand freedom, is an equally effective tool for repression. That is just …
Governments meet in Dubai for secret talks on Internet freedom
Internet freedom could be at stake at a secretive meeting of governments that begun on Monday in Dubai. The United …
91% of targeted attacks from ‘spearphishing’ emails, says Trend Micro
After gathering analysis of targeted attack data collected between February and September this year, Trend Micro found that 91 percent …
Specialised in value
Armed with best of breed technology solutions, value added distributor Spectrami has carved a niche for itself in a very …
New ‘Dockster’ malware discovered on Dalai Lama site
A new piece of malicious software targeted at Apple users has been found on a website dedicated to the Dalai …
Tumblr falls victim to malicious trolls
Popular online social networking site Tumblr was ravaged on Monday by an Internet worm that spewed racist and inflammatory messages …
A mobile future
It has been an eventful year in the solutions world as enterprises witnessed the rise of managed services, mobility and …
Gaining momentum
The IT landscape is ever evolving as the divide between traditional business and personal consumption continues to narrow. At its …
5 ways the iPad beats the Surface RT
This isn’t the first year that tablets are a hot gift item, but it is the first holiday season that …
Instagram vulnerability on iPhone allows for account takeover
A security researcher published on Friday another attack on Facebook’s Instagram photo-sharing service that could allow a hacker to seize …
Syrian Internet appears restored after two day blackout
After a two-day outage, Internet access in war-torn Syria appears to be for the most part restored on Saturday, according …
Charts show dramatic traffic collapse after Syrian Internet blackout
Internet access in Syria has been shut off nationwide, and network watchers Akamai and Renesys have issued charts illustrating the …
US providers host Syrian government websites
Web hosting providers from the U.S., Canada and other Western nations have been hosting official Syrian government websites, in violation …
Businesses to increase SaaS spending over next two years
Nearly three quarters of enterprises in Europe are planning to increase spending on software-as-a-service (SaaS) over the next two years, …
Mobile browser vulnerability lets hackers steal cloud computing time
A novel technique based on MapReduce could let hackers hijack computing resources used by cloud-based mobile browsers and use them …
‘Industrial Internet’ to add trillions to global GDP by 2030
The “Industrial Internet” (or Internet of Things) has the potential to add $10-15 trillion to global GDP by 2030 and …
Red Hat rolls out private PaaS
Red Hat officially jumped into the cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) market yesterday. Last year the company announced an initial version of OpenShift, an application …
HP in the dark over partner product sales in Syria
Hewlett-Packard said in a letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it had determined that its products were …
Dual-identity smartphones to bridge BYOD private, corporate divide
Late next year, consumers will be able to buy smartphones that either come with native hypervisor software or use an …
Microsoft promises Surface RT support until 2017
Microsoft will support its Surface RT tablet with updates, including security patches, until April 2017, or nearly four-and-a-half years after …