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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With companies able to collect and store vast amounts of data about consumers for very little money, the Federal Trade Commission held a conference on Monday to discuss guidelines on how firms use that data to advertise. While there are little in the way of legal requirements to protect consumer information, the […]

HELSINKI (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics hopes to boost its position in smartphones by opening up its software, but analysts doubt it can challenge Apple as the platforms favored by application developers. Media Samsung, the second largest cellphone maker globally, launched its own smartphone platform, bada on Tuesday in London. Focus on the handset market has […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) – Google Inc has revamped its search engine to allow results to be refreshed with up-to-the-second data increasingly churned out by the new crop of real-time Web products. The move to integrate real-time search results directly into Google’s flagship Web search product comes nearly two months after the company announced a […]

Data protection and privacy continue to be a tremendous focus and risk for the IT community today. In this webcast, you will learn the business & technical issues that drive privacy protection requirements, and how to safeguard confidential data by leveraging data masking techniques as part of an overall integrated data management strategy. RELATED NEWS […]

The white paper explores the fundamentals of automated software testing, explains how such an endeavor is actually an investment for a company, and details how a company can get a return on their investment. RELATED NEWS AND ANALYSIS Ethics and Artificial Intelligence: Driving Greater Equality FEATURE |  By James Maguire, December 16, 2020 AI vs. Machine Learning vs. […]

Leveraging a robust Information Governance solution helps simplify the management of this process. The ideal solution should automate retention policy enforcement and task documentation, while providing an archiving and retrieval engine that streamlines an organization’s ability to locate messages for audits, litigation and eDiscovery in a timely and cost-effective manner. RELATED NEWS AND ANALYSIS Ethics […]

Technology organizations have one mission—to provide technology-enabled services to their businesses at lower cost and risk and with higher service levels. Few would argue that virtualization has a key role to play here. But the outcomes of virtualization are dependent on several key factors. From decades of experience working alongside businesses of every shape and […]

Entrepreneurs and innovators will always take advantage of opportunities to refine, adapt, or create new business models, and a networked world throws open the door to opportunity on a scale that was previously unimaginable. For companies that undertake a globalisation strategy, large opportunities exist for growth, innovation, and business transformation. Cisco believes that globalisation creates […]

ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands (Reuters) – Technophiles and developers seeking the next tech breakthrough were drawn to the Dutch city of Rotterdam on Friday to hear “augmented reality” promoted as a way of changing their view of the world. Unlike virtual reality, augmented reality combines real-world images with computer-generated images on a screen, usually in real […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – Digital China, a Hong Kong-listed information technology company, is to distribute Research In Motion’s Blackberry handsets, accelerating RIM’s effort to expand into mainland China. The agreement will “help RIM further expand its business in China” by giving it access to Digital China’s national distribution network, the two companies said on Monday. The […]

HELSINKI (Reuters) – The world’s top cell phone maker Nokia will drastically cut back on the number of different smartphone models it rolls out next year as the Finnish firm tries to shrug off new rivals Apple Inc and RIM. Nokia continues to sell more smartphones than any of its rivals, but has lost ground […]

Virtualization and clustering can bring many benefits to your business — better IT asset utilization, improved business continuity, and improved operational efficiency. At the same time, virtualization can create a new level of complexity for IT. This paper discusses the technical management challenges inherent in these complex infrastructures including virtual sprawl, honoring service level agreements, […]