Computerworld-Now that Black Friday is behind us and the holiday gift-buying season is under way,IT managers should be prepared for users doing a fair amount of that shopping at work. The widespread adoption of bring-your-own-device ...
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BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion's (RIM's) apparent return from the brink has continued with stock prices increasing again following a rise in rating by Goldman Sachs. Share values in the Canadian firm rose six per cent after a ...
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Computerworld-The results of a multinational employee survey published today by public research firm Ovum,shows 46.1%of respondents believe their IT shops ignore the use of personal mobile devices for business purposes. The October survey ...
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Nearly half of all companies in India have security policies prohibiting employees using their own mobile devices for work purposes,a survey has revealed. A survey by IT security association ISACA polled more than 4,000 members from 83 ...
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Research In Motion's(RIM)BlackBerry is being dropped in favour of the Apple iPhone by yet another US government agency,with reliability being cited as the key reason. The National Transportation Safety Board(NTSB),a body that investigates ...
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In its November 2012 Blue Coat Mobility Study,the company surveyed 350 respondents and found that most organizations allow employees access to company email(83 percent)and instant messaging(56 percent)on personal devices,but only a fraction ...
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Networking hardware giant Cisco is to acquire privately held Meraki for $1.2bn (GBP 755m). Meraki, which was founded in 2006 and has offices in New York, London and Mexico, offers mid-market customers easy-to-deploy on-premise networking ...
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Chairman and CEO, Netgear, talks about market competition and partner strategy in the India market. CW: Over the years, what has redefined the networking market, which was more about switches and routers? Lo: Presently, the network is ...
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Computerworld Hong Kong - Two hotels in Hong Kong are leveraging mobile apps to give guests a new experience during their stay. Both Hotel ICON in Tsim Sha Tsui East and L'hotel A(c)lan in Kwun Tong have integrated apps for guests' use ...
Many UK organisations are still failing to understand the implications of data breaches and estimate the costs of recovery accurately,a study has revealed. Of the UK companies that have not yet suffered a breach,58%told the Ponemon ...
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Existing enterprise mobile device management [MDM] solutions come with "really serious constraints," Westminster Council CIO Ben Goward has told Computing. Speaking at Aditi Technologies' GoCloud 8 conference in London today, Goward said ...
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During the Gartner Symposium, earlier in November the analyst firm predicted that IT departments will be expanding their budget to support bring-your-own-device (BYOD). As Computer Weekly previously reported, Gartner expects IT budgets ...
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The number of consumer smartphone and tablets brought into workplaces will more than double by 2014, according to a recent study, but security on the endpoints is lacking. Juniper Research claims the number of devices being used in the ...
Tags: BYOD devices, smartphone, tablets, mobile devices
After a year in which some people called into question Research in Motion's future,the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone is hoping that the much-delayed BlackBerry 10(BB10)operating system will help turn the company around. Further ...
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Only around 13% of organisations are aware that printers and multi-function devices represent a threat to information security, Xerox has claimed. "Many organisations do not even realise that these devices are connected to the internet," ...
Tags: printers, multi-function devices, information security, embedding malware