IBM saw its net income for its second quarter of 2013 drop by 17 per cent compared to the same period in 2012. The company earned $3.23bn, compared with $3.9bn 12 months ago. Total revenue for Q2 stood at $24.9bn, down three per cent on ...
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Decreased processing speeds, unexpected freezes and shutdowns, and even permanently fried hardware have been afflicting readers (and staff) of Computing in the past week as the UK's heatwave shows no sign of abating. Here are our top 10 ...
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Data quality management is something that needs to concern the entire business and not just the IT department. Further reading Research: data quality and the Little Red Hen syndrome Taking Responsibility for your Core Data - why it ...
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The government is to review Huawei's Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (the Cell) and will report its findings later in the year. The Chinese telecommunications firm, which has flourished on a global scale in recent years, has been ...
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A report on 14 of the UK's hospital trusts with persistently high mortality rates has found that staff struggled to comprehend data to improve performances. Professor Sir Bruce Keogh was asked by the Secretary of State for Health, and ...
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A rebound for IBM failed to materialise in the second quarter, as profit and sales declined along with a slump in revenue from hardware and services. However, in its quarterly financial report Thursday, the company raised its forecast for ...
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New research has shown that the vast majority of businesses are exposing sensitive corporate data to cyber-criminals by failing to implement effective BYOD strategies. The report, released this week, found that just over half of the 570 ...
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The second-generation 7-in. Nexus 7 tablet, which Google may unveil next week, includes two cameras and is expected to run Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean), according to leaked photos and video. AndroidCentral showed the new Nexus 7 device with a ...
More and more workers around the world are bringing their personal mobile devices to the office daily, and companies appear to be having trouble keeping up with the trend. About 60 percent of organisations acknowledged they either don't ...
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Security researchers from Polish vulnerability research firm Security Explorations claim to have identified a new vulnerability in Java 7 that could allow attackers to bypass the software's security sandbox and execute arbitrary code on the ...
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Wall Street played its own version of war games on Thursday, testing its defences against simulated cyber-attacks bent on taking down US stock exchanges. A total of 500 people took part in the exercise, called Quantum Dawn 2, in offices ...
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WatchGuard Technologies has been awarded a "Performance Verified Certification" by independent test lab, Miercom, for performing nearly 3.5 times faster than competing unified threat management (UTM) solutions with standard UTM features ...
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There are two ways analysts report hiring trends in the tech: Some focus on the half-empty, others on the half-full. For the half-empty view, there is this new report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., which claims that layoffs in ...
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The computer hardware and software graphics market will grow in the coming years as applications become visually demanding, and employment opportunities in the field will expand, according to a study released on Tuesday. Sales of graphics ...
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Although a historic downturn in PC shipments has made headlines since April, "Peak PC" -- the moment when personal computers crested -- was two years ago, according to data from researcher IDC. In the third quarter of 2011, global PC ...
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