The best smartphone for the enterprise, a category long dominated by Blackberry, now faces challenges by Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android.
<b>Datamation:</b> "While I firmly believe that Android will challenge in the enterprise soon, it's just not happening now. The security and configuration features that IT departments demand simply aren't ready yet."
Now that Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth is devoting his full energies to desktop design, the changes are coming thick and fast. But are these new designs based on flawed assumptions? Is Ubuntu forking GNOME?
The security software vendor acquires a cloud-based storage company to provide online backup and data synchronization services for small businesses and individual consumers.
Preliminary survey by Citrix shows companies are ready to purchase the iPad for business, as are individuals for business purposes. What's the most popular iPad application for business?
The rise of cloud-based computing options has everyone scrambling to stake their claim. Microsoft, for now, says it wants to be a leader in protecting people and their data's privacy.
<b>Begin Linux:</b> "I was excited to try the Arch-based KahelOS on my Dell desktop for several reasons. Just like Arch, KahelOS is on a rolling release schedule and uses Pacman package manager. Also, this version of KahelOS uses Gnome 2.30.0."
The classic brand is reborn as a super-dense, all-in-one x86 server with an integrated SAN, while larger siblings will sport more than 1,000 cores for virtualized environments.
The classic brand is reborn as a super-dense, all-in-one x86 server with an integrated SAN, while larger siblings will sport more than 1,000 cores for virtualized environments.
Latest threat of identity theft comes to Vanderbilt University in the form a stolen desktop computer that contained the names and Social Security numbers of more than 7,000 students.
<b>LinuxInsider:</b> "European privacy advocates have added their voices to complaints about Facebook's privacy changes, and they say certain ways Facebook treats data may even be illegal under European laws."
China gets all the bad press but it turns out that Luxembourg, the Cayman Islands and a bunch of South American countries are actually the least discriminating when it comes to filtering malware.
<b>Make Tech Easier:</b> "Git is the revision control system created by the Linux kernel’s famous Linus Torvalds due to a lack of satisfaction with existing solutions. The main emphasis in the design was on speed, or more specifically, efficiency."
Social networking sites make up a large part of ecommerce marketing, but with so many outlets it's easy to become overwhelmed. Social media management tools can help.
<b>Open Enterprise:</b> "Regular readers of this blog may have noticed that I write a lot about software patents. The reason is simple: they represent probably the greatest single threat to free software, far beyond that of any individual company."