Global smartphone sales skyrocketed by 38 percent in the fourth quarter year over year. Meanwhile, Samsung ended 2012 in the top position for both smartphone sales and overall mobile phone sales, Gartner reported Wednesday. Even with the dramatic increase in smartphone sales in the fourth quarter, for the full year both smartphone and feature phone sales fell 1.7 percent from 2011 sales. Feature p
Published News
Smartphone sales skyrocket amid decline for feature phones
Posted by
Asha 98 days ago
(http://www.infoworld.com)
BYOD nightmare iOS devices hobble Exchange servers when they sync
Posted by
Asha 98 days ago
(http://www.infoworld.com)
Microsoft and Apple recommend that businesses deny certain iPhones, iPads, and iPods access to Calendar items until the companies can clear up a problem that slows Exchange servers to a crawl when the devices try to synch.
Researchers from security firm FireEye claim that attackers are actively using a remote code execution exploit that works against the latest versions of Adobe Reader 9, 10 and 11. "Today, we identified that a PDF zero-day [vulnerability] is being exploited in the wild, and we observed successful exploitation on the latest Adobe PDF Reader 9.5.3, 10.1.5, and 11.0.1," the FireEye researchers said la
Mozilla delivers Metroized Firefox to testers
Posted by
Asha 98 days ago
(http://www.infoworld.com)
Mozilla yesterday took another step toward delivering a "Metro" version of Firefox to Windows 8 users. Late Tuesday, Firefox desktop product manager Asa Dotzler announced that a preliminary Metro browser had reached "mozilla-central," the source code repository that feeds into what Mozilla calls the "Nightly" build channel.
Dropbox woos enterprise IT with new admin and security tools
Posted by
Asha 98 days ago
(http://www.infoworld.com)
Several file-sharing companies have been billed as "Dropbox for the enterprise." Turns out Dropbox wants that title as well.
Adobe releases patches for Flash Player and Shockwave Player
Posted by
Asha 98 days ago
(http://www.infoworld.com)
Adobe released security updates for Flash Player and Shockwave Player on Tuesday in order to address a total of 19 vulnerabilities affecting the two products. New stand-alone versions of Flash Player 11 were released for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. The Flash Player plug-ins bundled with Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 10 will be automatically updated through the update mechanisms of the t
Dell may wait until end of year to join public cloud market
Posted by
Asha 139 days ago
(http://www.infoworld.com)
Dell may wait until the end of this year to launch its anticipated public cloud, a vice president with the company told Network World sister site ITWorld, a move that puts the company behind other big-name vendors that are already executing on their cloud strategies.
IT investments expected to increase in 2013
Posted by
Asha 139 days ago
(http://www.infoworld.com)
Enterprises buying new mobile devices and investing in security and storage management will give IT spending a boost in 2013. Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.7 trillion in 2013, a 4.2 percent increase from 2012 spending of $3.6 trillion, according to research firm Gartner, which is becoming a bit more optimistic about the global economy.
Sort News
android
app
apple
apps
cloud
data
facebook
google
microsoft
mobile
oracle
samsung
security
windows
8