A study from digital security company viaForensics paints a stark picture of the vulnerability of smartphone user data. viaForensics evaluated …
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UAE CIOs rank cloud as a top investment priority
With 85 percent of UAE CIOs ranking cloud as their top investment priority to 2020, managing multiple clouds will be the foundation for business success, industry experts revealed recently.0 3620
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 …
Banking and finance sector can no longer ignore social media: Khoury
With the growing adoption of smartphones and the simultaneous surge in Internet use across the globe, banking and finance institutions …