Are IT groups really ready for BYOD security challenges?
LinkedIn survey finds enterprise mobility still in infancy.
Flipkart's CTO explains the Xiaomi launch outage
Amod Malviya, CTO, Flipkart, says the outage was not due to an infrastructure failure. He says changes in the nature of traffic affect Flipkart's complex algorithms, and throw up hidden choke points that don't show up in routine stress tests.
Baidu reports strong mobile ad sales, echoing Facebook
Chinese search giant Baidu reported a 34 percent jump in profit for the second quarter, with mobile ad sales accounting for almost a third of revenue for the first time.
New internet applications can boost China’s GDP
Can enable 7 to 22 percent of GDP growth through 2025.
China leads the world in effective CEM
CEM initiatives may lead to customer satisfaction, loyalty and retention, which translates to business growth, said Avaya.
China's Xiaomi to sell US$13 smart wristband, trumpets global ambitions
Xiaomi's fitness-tracker wristband can also automatically unlock your smartphone.
What makes for satisfied Indian CIOs?
The characteristics of happy CIOs, versus unhappy ones, goes beyond money, CIO research proves. But it has plenty to do with it.
Is the need for data analysts in India exaggerated?
In contrast to all the hoopla around the need for data analysts, some Indian CIOs aren't ready to hire business analysts. Here's why.
40 percent of Asian companies suffer economic loss due to data breaches: EIU report
Despite lapses in data security, a significant 85 percent of corporate executives still believe their own IT security systems are trustworthy.
EBay faces class action suit over data breach
EBay faces a class action suit in a U.S. federal court over a security breach earlier this year.
When is your infrastructure safe from Heartbleed?
Security pros debate whether Heartbleed poses enough of a risk in the data centre to warrant the headache of patching critical systems.
Never stop learning, CIOs advise new IT grads
While the job market is healthy for IT pros, certain talents are more valuable than others, and it's wise to keep adding to your skills arsenal.
Enterprise wearables present tech challenges and management pitfalls
Wearable technology experts share insights on the current hardware and software challenges facing the industry, as well as advice on how CIOs and IT can avoid the most common pitfalls associated with enterprise wearables.
Non-IBM Power8 servers, chips to appear early next year
Servers, chips and components are under development as part of third-party licensing deals.
IoT inspires new components for energy, wireless
The expected boom in demand for small, often isolated devices in the Internet of Things is driving developers to craft new types of components.
Real-time analytics helps Virginia Credit Union prevent fraud
The credit union used agile development to build an analytics system to stop fraudsters.
Security must evolve to be 'all about the data'
Experts on panel agree that security in the future, to be effective, will not about the devices, the network or even the user, but about embedding data with its own protection
Japan Airlines hopes smartwatches for gate staff will fly
JAL officials said smartwatches could help improve the efficiency of how and where airport staff are assigned, and improve passenger service.
Tech Mahindra plans expansion in Korea
Announces hiring of 300 in next 3 years and creating an ecosystem involving universities, trade bodies and alliances to create jobs
Global presence required for eCommerce success
New Forrester report identifies massive global eCommerce opportunity.
MANAGEMENT CENTRE
Whistles CIO David Mold joins Fortnum & Mason
Mold is Fortnum & Mason's first chief information officer.
Google may bring Wi-Fi to New York City pay phones
Google may be among the hopefuls vying to turn the New York City phone booths of the past into "communication points" of the future with free Wi-Fi and cellphone charging.
Whistles CIO David Mold joins Fortnum & Mason
Mold is Fortnum & Mason's first chief information officer.
EBay faces class action suit over data breach
EBay faces a class action suit in a U.S. federal court over a security breach earlier this year.
Tech Mahindra plans expansion in Korea
Announces hiring of 300 in next 3 years and creating an ecosystem involving universities, trade bodies and alliances to create jobs
How complexity is clogging your project environments
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HP invests in Hortonworks' Hadoop
Hewlett-Packard is betting US$50 million that its customers will find value in the Hadoop data processing platform, by investing in Hadoop distributor Hortonworks.
Doing an Office 365 migration the right way
Avoiding problems commonly seen in the past
Non-IBM Power8 servers, chips to appear early next year
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Want an Apple watch? Just 3D print one
An industrious design graduate from the University of Edinburgh has posted a 3D printing CAD file for a wrist ban that allows users to insert an iPod Nano, which can act as a watch, music player and more.
Qualcomm: Interoperability, community keys to wearable technology success
Current simplified gadget-to-cloud model that, while impressive, creates headaches for users, Qualcomm exec says.
Facebook eases digital marketing woes with its PMD programme
Kiran Raghavan of Facebook talks about the benefits of the Preferred Marketing Developer programme and the company's plan to expand it.
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Fortinet delivers world's fastest firewall
Fortinet are the first network security vendor to deliver a firewall that exceeds 1 terabit per second (Tbps) throughput performance.
Apple losing its grip as top tablet company
Apple's grip on the tablet is loosening, with the iPad losing ground during the second quarter this year to Android and Windows tablets.
EU hears Google, Microsoft, Yahoo on 'right to be forgotten'
Civil rights campaigners say uniform guidelines are necessary to prevent information that should be publicly available being suppressed.
Solid State Doctor 3.1: SSD TRIM for the masses
For anyone not running Windows 8.1 with its "optimize drive" command, there haven't been a lot of options for forcing your SSD to clean house--i.e. erasing cells, consolidating data, or whatever other techniques SSD vendors use to make sure that the drive continues to perform at its peak and doesn't suffer debilitating conditions such as erase-before-write contention. Solid State Doctor, a toolbox utility from the LC Technology data recovery house, will spur nearly any SSD into tidying up the place via TRIM commands.
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Apple shores up its enterprise position in Asia with IBM partnership
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IBM’s cloud platform strategy is getting legitimate
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Whistles CIO David Mold joins Fortnum & Mason
When is your infrastructure safe from Heartbleed?
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SingTel launches instant mobile remittance service for Indonesia
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