Year: 2011
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Mastering Mobile Device Management
The inclination among employees to bring personal mobile devices into the workplace is creating serious challenges for companies that have to protect their networks against unauthorized use. IT managers often don’t even know what or how many devices are tapping their networks, and it doesn’t take a genius to figure out how dangerous that is.… Read more
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Top Tales of IT Terror
Categories: News and TrendsTop Tales of IT Terror It Came From the DeepThe data recovery experts at Kroll Ontrack once received a laptop that had been absolutely soaked in saltwater. The story goes that the guy who owned the notebook had brought it with him on vacation so he could catch up on email on the beach. At… Read more
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Steve Jobs’ Biography Reveals Apple’s Design Process
Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Steve Jobs offers a glimpse into the top-secret design lab for Apple products, in the process revealing a good deal about the working relationship between the former Apple CEO, who died earlier this month, and his chief designer, Jonathan Ive. Apple heavily restricts access to that lab, which according to… Read more
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Symantec: Businesses Suffer From Cyber-Security Delusions
The majority of small business owners believe Internet security is critical to their success and that their companies are safe from ever increasing cyber security threats even as many fail to take fundamental precautions, according to a survey of U.S. small businesses sponsored by Symantec and the National Cyber Security Alliance and conducted by Zogby… Read more
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IBM Launches New Software to Tackle ‘Big Data’
IBM has announced new software to deliver "big data" analytics to users on a variety of devices and platforms. At its Information on Demand (IoD) 2011 conference in Las Vegas on Oct. 24, IBM unveiled new offerings that span a wide variety of big data and business analytics technologies across multiple platforms from mobile devices… Read more
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Oracle Buys RightNow for $1.5B
Oracle announced that it has agreed to acquire Bozeman, Mont.-based cloud services firm RightNow Technologies for $1.5 billion in a deal that should close sometime at the end of this year or early 2012 and which likely positions Oracle to better pit itself head-to-head against Salesforce.com. The acquisition is a huge win for the education-heavy… Read more