Billions of people have purchased iPhones, iPads, and iPods to store their digital photos, videos and other important, personal data. Unexpected mishaps that lead to physical damage and/or software or hardware issues are the main causes of data loss on any mobile device.
Read MoreWith the imminent launch of BlackBerry 10 (BB10), Jan Dawson, chief telecoms analyst at Ovum (www.ovum.com) believes “the new software platform will provide a temporary boost in performance but no salvation for RIM.”
Read MoreSocial collaboration is expected to gather momentum over the next few years in Australia, and this trend is complementary to a more collaboration-focused business climate. This was the finding from the newly released “Frost & Sullivan Australian Social Collaboration Market 2012” (www.frost.com).
According to Audrey William, head of research, ICT Practice, Frost & Sullivan ANZ, one of the main factors accelerating the adoption of social collaboration solutions is the growing importance of smart devices in an enterprise environment.
Read MoreWith the release of its 2012 “Annual Roundup and Mobile Security” reports, Trend Micro (www.trendmicro.com) documents how cybercriminals have moved beyond the PC, targeting Android, social media and even the Mac OS X with new attacks.
“2012 Annual Security Roundup – Evolved Threats in a Post-PC World Trend Micro’s Annual Security Roundup’ shows that most of Trend Micro’s predictions for 2012 came true, and the company encapsulated 2012 as the year where threats launched the beginning of the “Post-PC” Era. Threats have now escalated past the desktop environment.
Read MoreSentiment surrounding Big Data vendors remained positive last year, despite sceptics’ suggestions that the subject had been ‘over-hyped’, according to Ovum (www.ovum.com). The Big Data buzz word even managed to transcend from the enterprise IT world to become a hot topic for business publications and journals in 2012, with MongoDB claiming considerable mindshare among web developers who traditionally relied on MySQL, according to the research group.
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