Computerworld - The best move Microsoft could make after Steven Sinofsky's departure is to ditch the culture of secrecy he brought to Windows, analysts said today. "One thing that may be a benefit to Microsoft is to drop the belief that ...
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 ...
A jury in the US state of Delaware has found that Apple's iPhone infringes three patents that are held by patent-licencing firm MobileMedia Ideas. The firm holds patents for struggling Japanese giant Sony and Nokia,among others. Further ...
IDG News Service-Bank of America Merchant Services will extend its mobile payments service to small retailers in December,allowing them to use smartphones and tablets as point-of-sale terminals. The entry of the country's largest ...
Tags: Bank of America, Mobile Payments, smartphones, tablets, sale terminals
At a time when cyberattacks on America's critical infrastructure have increased 17-fold(between 2009 and 2011),the need for highly trained cybersecurity professionals is acute.However,83%of federal hiring managers in a recent survey said it ...
Globally,almost half(46%)of enterprise information is being stored outside of its own datacentre,with 23%stored on the cloud as mobile computing and cloud services go mainstream,according to the State of Information Report 2012 from ...
Tags: Symantec, enterprise data, datacentre, mobile devices, cloud
SAP is urging businesses to rethink core business values to become more consumer-centric using mobile, social, cloud and business intelligence (BI). Addressing delegates via a video link at the opening of SAP TechEd Madrid, Bill ...
Tags: SAP, cloud strategy, an e-learning platform, Hagermann Snabe
IDG News Service-Intel is in final negotiations to invest up to$500 million in struggling Sharp of Japan,the Kyodo News agency reported Tuesday. Japan's largest news agency said the companies were discussing an investment of between 30 ...
Tags: Intel, invest, Sharp, IGZO technology
Computerworld-SugarSync today released the public beta of a complete revamp of its cloud storage and content-sharing service that replaces its file directory-style look with a GUI-style menu along with drag and drop file transfer features. ...
Tags: Sugarsync, Sharing Service, search functionality, cloud storage
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 ...
Tags: Gartner Symposium, bring-your-own-device, smartphones, tablet computers
Web users and people shopping online during the upcoming holiday season should watch out for a new crop of scams, some of them targeting users of mobile devices, cybersecurity vendor McAfee warned. Many of the scams in McAfee's 2012 ...
Tags: McAfee, holiday season, mobile devices, operating systems
Shop Direct Group, the UK's leading online and home shopping retailer with brands including Very.co.uk, Littlewoods and isme, announces its full-year results for the 12-month period to 30th June 2012. Financial Performance – all ...
Tags: online, shopping retailer, full-year results, Financial Performance
One in three physicians planned to buy the iPad Mini even when its existence was just a rumor,according to a poll of doctors by medical app developer Epocrates. According to 90%of the respondents to the survey,the smaller size of the ...
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
ROAM Inc., the leading mCommerce Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider, announced that TaylorMade-adidas Golf Company is the first retail customer to integrate ROAM's software developer's kit (SDK) in its TaylorMade Performance Labs (TMPL). ...
Tags: ROAM, SDK, PaaS, TaylorMade, NFC