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ATandT Tops in Mobile App Dev, Testing Services: IDC

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:41:43 -0500

AT&T was ranked number one in a survey on who provides the best mobile application development and testing services. Verizon and IBM ranked second and third respectively. - AT amp;T took the top spot in a recent survey asking which vendors deliver the best mobile application development and testing services, according to IDC. In the survey involving 350 U.S. respondents, International Data Corp. asked enterprise end users about their perceptions of vendors who offer s...

Smartphone Sales Beat PCs for First Time Ever: Canalys

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:30:09 -0500

Smartphone sales surged past PC totals even with the iPad helping numbers for the first time ever during the fourth quarter, according to Canalys. - Smartphone sales surpassed those of PCs for the first time ever, during the fourth quarter of 2011, according to research firm Canalys. What's more, smartphones also out sold PCs even with the inclusion of tablets, such as the Apple iPad, into the mix. In all, vendors shipped 158.5 million smar...

iPhone iOS Apps Crash More than Android: Report

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:25:24 -0500

Apple's iOS is the more misbehaved mobile OS, according to Crittercism crash reports from November and December. Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, may change that � for the worse. - Android took a number of shots at Apples iOS during the Super Bowl, courtesy of Samsung, and now comes another hit: iOS apps crash more often than Android apps, according to data from Crittercism. Crittercism, which provides developers with real-time, actionable crash reports for mobile apps,...

Tech Spending Remains Strong, Despite Economic Volatility: IDC

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:56:50 -0500

Businesses continued to invest in infrastructure upgrades, along with new software applications and mobile devices, including tablets. - IT spending increased by 5 percent at constant currency in 2011, despite the worsening economic situation in Western Europe and volatility in other regions, according to the IDC Worldwide Black Book. Emerging markets continued to lead the way, with tech spending in the BRIC countries (Brazil, Ru...

HTC, Motorola Making Fewer Android Phones as Samsung Pulls Away

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:27:14 -0500

Android OEMs Motorola and HTC are curbing their smartphone and tablet production in 2012, while Samsung holds the line. - Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) likes to boast that there are more than 200 million devices, including over 300 different types of smartphones and tablets, based on its Android operating system in the market worldwide. But while consumers are dazzled and perhaps dizzy from the sheer volume of choices in ...

Symantec Reveals Plans for Backup Modernization

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:38:20 -0500

Symantec provides one solution for all backups whether they are based on tape, disk, or in physical or virtual environments. - Security firm Symantec is taking aim at the often complex and time-consuming process of backup and recovery services with the release of NetBackup 7.5 and Backup Exec 2012 software and cloud services, as well as Backup Exec Small Business Edition for midmarket companies. In addition, the companys Ne...

Recruitment Technology Drives Business Productivity: Report

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:30:09 -0500

Aberdeen researched nearly 300 companies to determine how well they were performing on the core business of human capital management. - iCIMS, a provider of software as a service (SaaS) talent acquisition solutions for the small and midsize business (SMB) market, recently co-sponsored the Aberdeen Group's January 2012 quot;Human Capital Management Trends quot; report. In the study, Aberdeen found that best-in-class companies are us...

Tech Pioneer Philippe Kahn to Star in Super Bowl Ad

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:44:24 -0500

Philippe Kahn, an icon in the software and overall IT industry, is slated to talk about his invention of the camera phone as part of a Best Buy commercial that will air during the Super Bowl. - IT industry pioneer Philippe Kahn is set to star in a Super Bowl advertisement during the big game Sunday evening. Kahn, who founded software tools powerhouse Borland International and other concerns, is slated to take part in a Best Buy spot focusing on tech innovators during the Super Bowl...

State of SCADA Security Worries Researchers

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:17:32 -0500

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. - CANCUN, Mexico Recent reports painted a bleak picture of the security issues plaguing industrial control systems, but the situation is exacerbated by the fact that administrators are na�ve about the dangers, researcher said. Researchers presented some alarming findings about the state of secur...

FBI Prepares to Shut Down DNSChanger Temporary Servers, Infections Remain

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:17:29 -0500

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. - Some of the major organizations still have not removed the DNSChanger Trojan from infected computers, despite the fact that the botnet's command-and-control infrastructure has been under the Federal Bureau of Investigation's control for the past few months. The primary function of the DNSChang...

Facebook Has Microsoft Ally in Google Battle

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:24:47 -0500

Facebook has a strong ally in its growing battle against Google and its own social-networking aims: Microsoft. - Facebooks initial public offering will hand the social network billions of dollars to spend on future projects, and turn many of its employees into millionaires or billionaires. It will also intensify competition with Google, which desperately wants to establish an outsized presence in the so...

BlackBerry 10 Is a Double Down Bet for RIM: Analyst

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:24:32 -0500

RIM will likely abandon plans to license the BlackBerry OS in favor of positioning BlackBerry 10 head-to-head against Apple and Google Android, according to an analyst. - Research In Motion will dump its BlackBerry OS licensing plans and double down on the upcoming BlackBerry 10s ability to battle toe-to-toe against Apples iOS and Google Android, according to a new analyst report. �Our checks indicate RIM is likely to move away from a proposal to the Board th...

Windows Phone 8, Kinect for Windows SDK Powered Microsoft's Week

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:24:14 -0500

Microsoft's week included a swipe at Google, the next version of Office in technical preview, and some leaks about Windows Phone 8. - Microsofts week saw the release of its Kinect for Windows SDK (software development kit) and Runtime, a very public broadside at Google over the latters privacy policy, the next version of Office entering technical preview, and the unexpected revelation of some crucial Windows Phone 8 details. ...

Facebook Users Get More Information Than They Give: Pew

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:12:39 -0500

Facebook users like to get more information than they give on the world's leading social network, according to a small Pew Internet Project study. The question is how Facebook can boost user engagement beyond just power users. - Facebook's IPO will newly mint many millionaires, but many of the social network's 845 million users can't be accorded the same largesse. The majority of Facebook users receive more from their Facebook friends than they give, according to new information from the Pew Internet Project, which onl...

Motorola Xoom Tablets Sold With User Data on Woot

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:12:51 -0500

Motorola Mobility's troubles with the Android Honeycomb-based Xoom tablet continue as nearly 100 WiFi Xoom devices were accidentally resold with user data on them. - Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) Feb. 3 said that it failed to wipe some user data from roughly 100 out of a batch of 6,200 Motorola Xoom WiFi tablets that were refurbished and resold via daily deals Website Woot between October and December 2011. Original owners who performed a factory data reset...