Brian T. Horowitz

As the use of mobile devices continues to soar, enterprise cloud applications are now resident in the palm of your hand, like your ordinary e-mail and mobile Web browsing. And with mobility comes ever greater responsibility to keep enterprise data safe. “The power of these devices in consumers’ hands is now equal to that of […]

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that as Verizon Communications prepares to release its fourth quarter earnings, investors and the public wonder if the company will acknowledge problems with its new flagship product, the BlackBerry Storm. Many complaints have surfaced regarding the new touch-screen device. Customers say typing on the touch-screen can be clunky, and […]

Working off an external network in the cloud brings the benefits of offsite storage backup, but also comes with some dangers: Viruses, spam, malware and identity theft are among the threats you may face. Along with the dangers of sharing your data externally with outside parties comes some security benefits as well, according to Eran […]

On the heels of the $400 Eee PC laptop introduced about a year ago, Asus may be readying an Eee smartphone. Industry reports say the Asus Eee could be based on the Google Android or Windows Mobile OS and available in the first half of this year. According to the The New York Times, Asus […]

When four-year-old Kory Billings was diagnosed with leukemia, his Dad, Greg, needed to keep up with his work responsibilities while tending to his most important job of all, looking after his children. At age nine, Kory received a bone marrow transplant at Duke University Medical Center, thanks to his sister Karly’s generous donation. During that […]

Is combing through a list of phone numbers to see who’s available with the information you need a thing of the past? Apparently so, according to a new report on unified communications from research firm Nemertes. “With a unified communications environment, [users are] able to see presence status, instant-message a physician to see if they’re […]

When you’re a small business and you can’t afford to lose those accounting statements, graphic design illustrations or medical records, keeping all your files in one location isn’t the best option. Storage industry insiders say keeping your information on external hard drives and CDs are important, but if your office or home burns down, your […]

As the U.S. braces for a possible economic slowdown, Stamford, Conn.-based research firm Gartner (NYSE: IT) cut its growth outlook for PC sales from the previous year. The research firm is now predicting 10.9 percent growth for PC sales in 2008, a mark that’s down from the 2007 growth mark of 13.4 percent that Gartner […]