Recent Articles
-
Threat Update: Malicious QR Codes Pose Risk to iPhone, Android Devices
We’ve all seen those interesting little white barcode boxes with lots of squiggles and lines that urge us to scan them with our cell phones. Called QR codes, these shortcut codes to mobile websites and applications are an elegantly simple way to cram loads of information into users’ devices with total ease. But the same…
-
HP Committing webOS to Open Source by September
Technology giant Hewlett-Packard began executing its plan to deliver an open webOS by committing to a schedule for making the platform’s source code available under an open-source license. The company said it aims to complete this milestone in its entirety by September. The webOS code will be made available under the Apache License, version 2.0,…
-
F5 Launches Firewall for Data Centers
F5 Networks has launched a data center firewall designed to protect public-facing websites from cyber-attacks while also competing with other vendors in the space on both traffic capacity and cost. According to Dean Darwin, vice president of worldwide channel sales at F5 Networks, customers are beginning to recognize that the application delivery network is a…
-
Experienced IT Employees Can Expect Higher Salaries: Dice
Technology professionals enjoyed their largest annual salary growth since 2008, according to the 2012-2011 Salary Survey from Dice, a career site for technology and engineering professionals. After two straight years of wages remaining nearly flat, tech professionals on average garnered salary increases of more than two percent, boosting their average annual wage to $81,327 from…
-
Growth Continues to Accelerate for Private Clouds
Just like the Energizer bunny, the adoption of private cloud technology keeps going and going. A case in point is DynamicOps, a cloud services provider that has seen some 300 percent growth in the private cloud market through 2011. While DynamicOps is the latest example of a rapidly growing cloud services company, it s by…
-
AT&T Launches Cloud-Based UC Service
Many enterprises are looking to unified communications (UC) products to increase productivity and simplify communications. However, adoption of UC solutions has long been a challenge, both financially and technologically, for those wanting the most out of UC. AT&T is aiming to simplify the transition to UC with a cloud-based offering that eliminates much of the…