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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Friday, March 9, 2012
eWeek Europe : Windows Phones To Include High-End Email Encryption
This post sounds interesting :
<p>Microsoft is partnering with Good Technology for a Windows Phone solution that offers encrypted end-to-end messaging</p>
To continue reading
: http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/windows-phones-to-include-high-end-email-encryption-63595
eWeek Europe : Google To Patent Fibre Optic Cable Deployment Method
This post sounds interesting :
<p>The "edging strip" could make fibre-to-the-home installation simpler by removing needed to dig trenches in customers' gardens</p>
To continue reading
: http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/google-to-patent-fibre-optic-cable-deployment-method-63776
eWeek Europe : RSA 2012: External Attacks Were The Most Common Breach Vector In 2011
<p>External attackers were behind most 2011 data breaches, using malware or just hacking a way in, according to a Verizon report</p>
To continue reading
Friday, February 3, 2012
Google's automated scanning service, dubbed Bouncer, is to frisk Android Market apps for hidden malware
Google is improving its security measures on Android Market after placing Bouncer on the door, to prevent the entry of undesirable apps. Bouncer has been monitoring the Android Market for several months already, and Google claims it has seen a 40 percent drop in malicious apps between the first half and second half of 2011, Hiroshi Lockheimer, vice president of engineering for Google's Android group, wrote on the Google Mobile blog 2 February. The service automatically scans Android Market for potentially malicious software without requiring developers to go through an application approval process.
Source: eweek
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Tablets, BYOD Causing Global IT Headaches, Cisco Finds
Tablets, BYOD Causing Global IT Headaches, Cisco Finds
SUMMARY: Growing tablet use at home means growing tablet use at work. A Cisco survey of global IT managers found tablet use is up, but policies are still uncertain.
Tablet use is on the rise, and a recent Cisco survey sought to gauge the effect of these devices as they make their way into the enterprise, by both sanctioned means and otherwise.
Requests for tablets within the enterprise are significant—on average, one tablet is requested for every three smartphones—according to the Cisco poll of 1,500 decision-making IT workers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Spain, conducted in late 2011.
At 21 percent, workers in the United States and France are asking for them the most, though U.S. IT managers, at 38 percent, are most likely to issue them. Least likely to dole out the devices, at 27 percent, are managers in the U.K.
Sales are a strong niche for tablets, in Germany more so than elsewhere, with 31 percent of German salesforces using the devices, versus the global average of 21 percent.
Spain, however, appears poised for the highest growth, Cisco said in a statement on the survey, "with 90 percent of IT managers believing the tablet will become more popular in the next two years."
The growing bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend is causing greater security concerns, according to many IT managers. BYOD, along with access to company servers and lost or stolen devices, was named among managers' most-pressing problems.
The BYOD trend presents benefits and challenges for businesses. Companies save money when employees use their own devices for work rather than having to use company-bought technology, and it also can improve productivity. The challenge comes when trying to protect the company's network and data when employees need access from their privately owned devices.
U.S. IT managers seem the most inclined to put their concerns into action, with 75 percent believing that "new rules must be established around security and device usage."
Nearly half of all those surveyed agreed that company applications should be restricted, and nearly all agreed that custom tablet apps would be good for business. Managers in Canada and the United Kingdom, at 55 percent and 56 percent, respectively, felt the strongest about wanting access to applications on tablets to be restricted.
Despite the security issues prompted by BYOD, managers, the survey found, are largely ignoring the issue.
"Globally, 48 percent said their company would never authorize employees to bring their own devices," Cisco said in the statement, "yet 57 percent agreed that some employees use personal devices without consent."
These rule breakers are most prevalent in the United States—64 percent were said to be bringing in devices without consent—while in Germany, at 49 percent, the issue was most contained.
Ultimately, BYOD issues press on businesses' bottom lines, as globally 44 percent of managers said that BYOD issues divert the attention of IT staff from other "important projects."
Still, tablets aren't seen as all bad, as 75 percent of managers, when pressed for a wish list, named email and document sharing as "must haves" and nearly half agreed that video conferencing, instant messaging, access to company databases and seamless synchronization with other devices are "desirable."
The Pew Internet Project recently reported that ownership of tablets among U.S. adults nearly doubled between just mid-December 2011 and early January—from 10 percent to 19 percent—suggesting IT managers, even more so than during the Cisco survey period, have their work cut out for them.
Tablet use is on the rise, and a recent Cisco survey sought to gauge the effect of these devices as they make their way into the enterprise, by both sanctioned means and otherwise.
Requests for tablets within the enterprise are significant—on average, one tablet is requested for every three smartphones—according to the Cisco poll of 1,500 decision-making IT workers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Spain, conducted in late 2011.
At 21 percent, workers in the United States and France are asking for them the most, though U.S. IT managers, at 38 percent, are most likely to issue them. Least likely to dole out the devices, at 27 percent, are managers in the U.K.
Sales are a strong niche for tablets, in Germany more so than elsewhere, with 31 percent of German salesforces using the devices, versus the global average of 21 percent.
Spain, however, appears poised for the highest growth, Cisco said in a statement on the survey, "with 90 percent of IT managers believing the tablet will become more popular in the next two years."
The growing bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend is causing greater security concerns, according to many IT managers. BYOD, along with access to company servers and lost or stolen devices, was named among managers' most-pressing problems.
The BYOD trend presents benefits and challenges for businesses. Companies save money when employees use their own devices for work rather than having to use company-bought technology, and it also can improve productivity. The challenge comes when trying to protect the company's network and data when employees need access from their privately owned devices.
U.S. IT managers seem the most inclined to put their concerns into action, with 75 percent believing that "new rules must be established around security and device usage."
Nearly half of all those surveyed agreed that company applications should be restricted, and nearly all agreed that custom tablet apps would be good for business. Managers in Canada and the United Kingdom, at 55 percent and 56 percent, respectively, felt the strongest about wanting access to applications on tablets to be restricted.
Despite the security issues prompted by BYOD, managers, the survey found, are largely ignoring the issue.
"Globally, 48 percent said their company would never authorize employees to bring their own devices," Cisco said in the statement, "yet 57 percent agreed that some employees use personal devices without consent."
These rule breakers are most prevalent in the United States—64 percent were said to be bringing in devices without consent—while in Germany, at 49 percent, the issue was most contained.
Ultimately, BYOD issues press on businesses' bottom lines, as globally 44 percent of managers said that BYOD issues divert the attention of IT staff from other "important projects."
Still, tablets aren't seen as all bad, as 75 percent of managers, when pressed for a wish list, named email and document sharing as "must haves" and nearly half agreed that video conferencing, instant messaging, access to company databases and seamless synchronization with other devices are "desirable."
The Pew Internet Project recently reported that ownership of tablets among U.S. adults nearly doubled between just mid-December 2011 and early January—from 10 percent to 19 percent—suggesting IT managers, even more so than during the Cisco survey period, have their work cut out for them.
Amazon Kindle Fire Hijacks Android Tablet Market
Amazon Kindle Fire Hijacks Android Tablet Market
SUMMARY: Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet has become a top driver of Android tablet application consumption in less than three months, according to mobile analytics firm Flurry. Amazon's Kindle Fire
SUMMARY: Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet has become a top driver of Android tablet application consumption in less than three months, according to mobile analytics firm Flurry.
Amazon's Kindle Fire has managed to become the first tablet based on Google's Android operating system to see demonstrable application usage in a short period, suggesting that the 7-inch slate has become quite the content driver for the e-commerce giant.
The tablet, which only launched Nov. 15, has already matched the Samsung Galaxy Tab in application usage by an Android tablet, according to mobile analytics firm Flurry.
Before the Fire launched in November, the Galaxy Tab comprised 63 percent of Android app sessions. Yet through January, the Galaxy Tab and Kindle Fire each accounted for 36 percent of app usage, showing the Fire paired with Amazon's Appstore has proved to be popular among consumers.
Flurry also looked at data from five popular paid apps and found that the Kindle Fire drove over 2.5 times more paid downloads to consumers than the Samsung Galaxy Tab, which has at least twice as many active units in the real world as the Fire.
"This shows that for tablets, the Amazon Appstore can already deliver more direct revenue to developers than the Android Market," noted Flurry, which tracks tens of thousands of Android apps, covering over 20 percent of all consumer sessions on more than 90 percent of all Android devices each day.
These are telling stats at a time when analysts have all but written off Android tablets as non-starters in a young tablet market that industry watchers have taken to calling the iPad market.
Indeed, one of the reasons Apple has crushed the nascent Android slate market in market share and application usage is that consumers don't have enough compelling content or applications to access via Google's Android Market. There are only about 200 or so Android apps designed for tablets based on the Android Honeycomb operating system.
The findings are drenched in irony. Google launched Honeycomb nearly a year ago with the belief that the software would be powerful enough to challenge the popular iPad.
Yet Google never open-sourced Honeycomb, and developers were cool on writing for that branch of Android, even as the smartphone branch became the most popular OS platform in the world. Indeed, Google expected the hardware and OS to sell itself, but it never happened to the point that Google expected it to.
Seizing on this dearth in tablet traffic, Amazon came out of nowhere to offer a $199 tablet–less than half of existing tablets. Moreover, the company eschewed Honeycomb to "fork," or customize, its own Android build, and sold apps through its own Appstore instead of the Android Market.
The successful approach has led RBC Capital analysts to claim Amazon makes $136 from content and service per Kindle Fire unit.
Now Flurry is looking at the Fire as possibly the rising tide the lifts all boats in the Android tablet market. "Total Android tablet sessions in January more than tripled over November, with Galaxy Tab sessions increasing by more than 50 percent," Flurry noted. "Overall, Android tablets are growing aggressively as a category."
This appears to be true, according to recent data culled from Strategy Analytics, which found that Android's tablet market share rose from 29 percent in the third quarter of 2011 to 39 percent by Q4. Conversely, iPad market share fell from 68 percent to 58 percent over the same period.
Amazon's Kindle Fire has managed to become the first tablet based on Google's Android operating system to see demonstrable application usage in a short period, suggesting that the 7-inch slate has become quite the content driver for the e-commerce giant.
The tablet, which only launched Nov. 15, has already matched the Samsung Galaxy Tab in application usage by an Android tablet, according to mobile analytics firm Flurry.
Before the Fire launched in November, the Galaxy Tab comprised 63 percent of Android app sessions. Yet through January, the Galaxy Tab and Kindle Fire each accounted for 36 percent of app usage, showing the Fire paired with Amazon's Appstore has proved to be popular among consumers.
Flurry also looked at data from five popular paid apps and found that the Kindle Fire drove over 2.5 times more paid downloads to consumers than the Samsung Galaxy Tab, which has at least twice as many active units in the real world as the Fire.
"This shows that for tablets, the Amazon Appstore can already deliver more direct revenue to developers than the Android Market," noted Flurry, which tracks tens of thousands of Android apps, covering over 20 percent of all consumer sessions on more than 90 percent of all Android devices each day.
These are telling stats at a time when analysts have all but written off Android tablets as non-starters in a young tablet market that industry watchers have taken to calling the iPad market.
Indeed, one of the reasons Apple has crushed the nascent Android slate market in market share and application usage is that consumers don't have enough compelling content or applications to access via Google's Android Market. There are only about 200 or so Android apps designed for tablets based on the Android Honeycomb operating system.
The findings are drenched in irony. Google launched Honeycomb nearly a year ago with the belief that the software would be powerful enough to challenge the popular iPad.
Yet Google never open-sourced Honeycomb, and developers were cool on writing for that branch of Android, even as the smartphone branch became the most popular OS platform in the world. Indeed, Google expected the hardware and OS to sell itself, but it never happened to the point that Google expected it to.
Seizing on this dearth in tablet traffic, Amazon came out of nowhere to offer a $199 tablet–less than half of existing tablets. Moreover, the company eschewed Honeycomb to "fork," or customize, its own Android build, and sold apps through its own Appstore instead of the Android Market.
The successful approach has led RBC Capital analysts to claim Amazon makes $136 from content and service per Kindle Fire unit.
Now Flurry is looking at the Fire as possibly the rising tide the lifts all boats in the Android tablet market. "Total Android tablet sessions in January more than tripled over November, with Galaxy Tab sessions increasing by more than 50 percent," Flurry noted. "Overall, Android tablets are growing aggressively as a category."
This appears to be true, according to recent data culled from Strategy Analytics, which found that Android's tablet market share rose from 29 percent in the third quarter of 2011 to 39 percent by Q4. Conversely, iPad market share fell from 68 percent to 58 percent over the same period.
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