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Apple's iPad 3 will be unveiled in March, according to a new AllThingsD report. Rumors suggest it will feature a more powerful processor and Retina Display.
The platform will include Web-based portals to streamline and automate service plan, customer lifecycle and reseller management.
IBM, Samsung and GLOBALFOUNDRIES founders of the Common Platform alliance -- will showcase next-generation chip technologies at the Common Platform Technology Forum in March.
Application layer DDoS attacks are smaller than traditional network-based attacks, which try to exceed the available bandwidth. Organizations need to handle them differently.



HANA is designed to improve decision-making and increase the speed of existing processes and accessing large amounts of data.
The survey suggests marketers recognize the need to dedicate more resources to their social media efforts going forward.
A new report by CDW's government division shows that federal workers are using their own mobile devices on the job. The question now is how does IT secure all these devices?
Microsoft will host a Windows 8 Consumer Preview event in Barcelona Feb. 29. That's likely the launch date of Windows 8 beta.
To potential clients, certifications can inspire confidence that contractors are qualified to contribute, manage or lead various projects.
The velocity of technological change is providing improved business functionality for organizations that have previously operated with a smaller internal IT footprint. But this change comes at a cost, creating a new set of risks that CIOs must effectively manage to be successful.
Apple's iPhone 4S and mid-priced smartphones drove a 61.3 percent year-over-year increase in unit shipments worldwide, according to IDC.
IBM has helped design and build a 900,000 square foot data center in India for Tulip Telecom. The companies say it is the largest data center in India.
Verizon and Health Evolution Partners are looking to enable development in real-time care coordination and mobile data services.
While small business owners indicate plans to hire in the next 12 months -- the most optimistic outlook since July 2008 -- they continue to indicate some concern around hiring today.
Apple's iPad and Google's Android tablets will continue to pace the slate market in 2012, with an assist from Microsoft Windows 8, said Jefferies & Co.
As part of the new release, Symantec transformed Backup Exec s user interface and configurability to provide users with a simpler experience.
As federal officials and the White House increasingly call on Congress to pass the comprehensive cyber-security bill to protect critical infrastructure, the House moves forward with its version.
Smartphone sales surged past PC totals even with the iPad helping numbers for the first time ever during the fourth quarter, according to Canalys.
Businesses continued to invest in infrastructure upgrades, along with new software applications and mobile devices, including tablets.
Adobe wants researchers to focus on mitigation technologies that make it expensive for attackers to launch attacks, not hunting bugs.
Aberdeen researched nearly 300 companies to determine how well they were performing on the core business of human capital management.
Researchers examined the state of security in SCADA and industrial control systems and presented an ugly picture of the vulnerabilities and challenges in addressing the issues.
Thousands of computers still infected with the DNSChanger Trojan will not be able to access the Internet after the FBI shuts down its temporary servers March 8.
Google's Android OS finished 2011 with 47.3 percent U.S. smartphone market share, according to comScore. No. 2 Apple iOS garnered 29.6 percent share, thanks to the iPhone 4S.
Windows Phone 8 will integrate in many ways with Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system, including features such as BitLocker encryption, according to two new reports.
VeriSign didn't disclose that it had been successfully attacked several times in 2010 because the security team didn't tell management about the incidents until recently.
The costs of preserving, searching and reviewing information in litigation can be staggering. What costs a dollar to store on a hard drive can easily cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to search and review for a lawsuit. Ignoring or destroying salient information prior to or during a lawsuit can lead to losing a case—regardless of the merits of the actual claim—and spending a small fortune litigating the issue of whether you have met your discovery obligations. The solution? Take steps to budget, hire and manage information properly on the front end; corral discovery costs; and avoid Luddite lawyers.
The IT team at Northeastern Illinois is severely overburdened with the challenge of managing existing IT services while also addressing new educational and operational requirements, says Kim Tracy, Executive Director of the school's University Technology Services. Enter cloud computing. "By moving IT services to the cloud, we can offload the complexity of the current IT environment and improve services to our faculty and students and provide the best learning experience possible," he says.
When the stock is issued at some point in the near future, Facebook--with an expected post-IPO valuation about $100 billion--would represent the largest stock market debut for a U.S. company in nearly four years.
Attackers targeted executives in the defense industry and government officials with fake invitations to conferences to install the MSUpdater Trojan to steal sensitive data.
Doctors have embraced the Apple iPad, but more software innovation is needed for clinical computing on the tablet, Spyglass Consulting Group reveals in a new study.
By 2016, competition among PaaS vendors will produce new programming models, new standards and new software market leaders.
When it comes to data, too much of a good thing can indeed become a bad thing. These five tips will help you make sense of the exponentially expanding volume of data we're all facing.
It’s interesting to note that the performance of today's comparatively larger storage arrays isn’t intrinsically much better than I was getting in 1980 -- maybe twice as fast for data retrieval. There's just a lot more data being stored, and the cost per stored bit is way down. Some of the same operational challenges are still around, too.
The big data era may make some companies nervous. But we are exploiting it, leveraging it, learning from it. You might say we get the "big picture" into our business that big data gives us.
We have two factors intersecting: a never-before-seen wealth of data from transactions and interactions, plus a new level of technology innovation to drive down costs. There are four key technology considerations for today’s CIO looking to capitalize on big (and diverse) data.
IBM announced plans to acquire Worklight, a maker of development and management software for tablets and smartphones, in a move aimed at bolstering Big Blue s enterprise mobile strategy.
Facebook is girding for an IPO filing Feb. 1, setting it up for more intense competition with online ad and search giant Google in 2012.
The threat of cyber-war and cyber-attacks is serious enough that countries need to beef up their defenses as part of their military strategy.
Increasing demand for mobile computing capabilities is forcing IT executives to fret about everything from device support and application development strategies to a whole new set of security concerns, with huge rewards awaiting those who tackle these issues most effectively.
NEWS ANALYSIS: Apple's contract manufacturing at Foxconn is getting all of the attention, but the problem is far wider. If you want to find one source of the problem, look in the mirror.
Fifteen companies including PayPal, Google, Microsoft and Facebook are banding together to fight domain-based phishing and other email scams with the new DMARC specification.
McAfee's latest Mobile Security 2.0 enables remote data wipes, tracking and locks, as well as the ability to tell when applications are accessing personal data.
Procter & Gamble’s CIO Filippo Passerini is determined to push forward a democratization of data for the consumer products giant. Here, he outlines how a series of in-house innovations is empowering decision-makers via real-time access to intelligence and insight to deliver clear business benefits.
The company s return to top spot was partly driven by continuing to offer the iPhone 3GS at rock-bottom prices.
If this event, which had been projected (apparently incorrectly) by several financial analysts to happen later this spring, does indeed take place, it will easily be the largest IT IPO in history.
Google is under fire in Congress for its new privacy policy changes to unify user information from 60 Web services under one single policy.
Big companies like Lenovo and IBM are looking at high schools to tap into the next generation of IT workers to build the next killer apps and staff the jobs of the future.
HP's webOS software will be available under an open-source license by September. Will other companies use the platform for their own projects?
An Avanade survey finds that IT administrators and business executives are embracing the dual ideas of the consumerization of IT and BYOD. The resistance to these changes is a "myth."
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