It is the CIO’s and CISO’s job to identify and present the risks the business may face, but its up to the board of directors to make the final decision on the acceptable level of risks. Security decisions should be made taking into consideration all relevant business, economic, organization and technology issues. Factors that could […]
Posted on November 7th, 2012 by admin
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The unstoppable rise of smartphones and tablets will see 1.2 billion of the devices being bought worldwide next year, analyst Gartner is predicting. It also forecasts sales of 821 million of the smart devices this year — which is says will account for 70 percent of total devices sold in 2012. While businesses have traditionally […]
Posted on November 6th, 2012 by admin
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CA Technologies has filed a lawsuit against New Relic, the application lifecycle management company. CA is seeking “undisclosed damages” for lost profits. It is also seeking an injunction against New Relic prohibiting the infringement of CA patents and the misuse of the company’s intellectual property. In other words, CA wants a judge to shut down New […]
Posted on November 6th, 2012 by admin
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Wrike, the increasingly popular social project management and collaboration platform, just announced the re-launch of its mobile apps for iPhone and Android. In addition, Wrike also launched a new mobile web app for all other platforms. It’s worth noting that this isn’t Wrike’s first foray into mobile apps. The company released a set of iPhone, […]
Posted on November 5th, 2012 by admin
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The next generation of apps will require developers to think more of the human as the user interface. It will become more about the need to know how an app works while a person stands up or with their arms in the air more so than if they’re sitting down and pressing keys with their […]
Posted on November 5th, 2012 by admin
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is asking for help in explaining to the federal circuit why copyrighting APIs is such a bad idea. The EFF’s request comes after a victory earlier this year when U.S.District Court Judge William Alsup ruled in the Oracle v. Google case that an API cannot be copyrighted. The ruling drew […]
Posted on November 3rd, 2012 by admin
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Gliffy is moving to an all-HTML5 platform, showing the change in developer and business users’ needs to collaborate online across any platform and within third-party application environments. Gliffy has historically served as a Flash-based SaaS for developing diagrams. It adopted HTML5 initially for Atlassian, the developer and collaboration platform. Gliffy’s SaaS environment will go to HTML5 in […]
Posted on November 3rd, 2012 by admin
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Microsoft plans to offer devices based on Perceptive Pixel technology that uses both pen and touch to create what is equivalent to the human as the user interface. Microsoft General Manager Jeff Han, who sold Perceptive Pixel to Microsoft earlier this year, hinted at the news with a slide in a presentation at this week’s […]
Posted on November 2nd, 2012 by admin
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Lucky Sort, the Portland-based visualization engine for making sense out of live data streams, is announcing its first partner: StockTwits, a social network for traders that lets users share stock-related information in real time. Additionally, Howard Lindzon, StockTwits CEO and co-founder, has now also invested in Lucky Sort alongside a couple of other angels who, […]
Posted on November 2nd, 2012 by admin
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Microsoft has made a deal with China to offer Windows Azure in the country. The deal is ballyhooed as a landmark agreement but, at its core, represents something that only the Chinese government can love. The agreement with the municipality of Shanghai shows how China will begin rolling out more cloud services to China. That’s […]
Posted on November 1st, 2012 by admin
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