Slow 3G growth hurts Asia mobile revenue

New Delhi: Mobile subscriptions in the developing countries of Asia continue to grow dramatically, as operators like Bharti Airtel of India and China Mobile tap new consumer segments. However, revenue growth has been failing to keep pace. As noted in a new report from Strategy Analytics Emerging Markets Communications Strategies (EMCS) service, Emerging Asia: Slow 3G Growth Clouds Revenue... By

Zeus Trojan migrates to Blackberry OS

New Delhi: A Zeus Trojan designed specifically to run on the Blackberry operating system has been detected by researchers at Trend Micro. The malware allows remote access of infected Blackberry devices by the attacker, who can then change the SMS message default number, add a new device administrator, control blocked call lists, and even turn the device on and off. The Trojan also removes itself... By

Data Privacy: Why You Should Care

New Delhi: In my opinion, no company should have to question the importance of data privacy. Ultimately, data privacy boils down to protecting the rights of your clients, customers, employees and corporate information.Data protection issues impact some industries more than others due to the nature of the information they handle to complete a transaction. As I mentioned in a previous post about... By

2011 will be the year of platform as a service

New Delhi: All the leading enterprise software vendors, as well as large cloud specialists, will introduce new platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings this year, making 2011 the year of PaaS, according to Gartner, Inc. These leading vendors are expected to deliver new or strongly expanded PaaS service offerings and cloud-enabled application infrastructure products."By the end of 2011, the battle... By

Dell unveils storage strategy for India

Mumbai: Dell has unveiled its storage portfolio, expanding existing solutions with the recent global acquisitions to give customers the choice to build an integrated storage infrastructure using different technologies such as fibre or iSCSI to meet their needs in the virtual era. Reiterating this storage focus, Dell also announced the India availability of solutions from its recent acquisition... By

Point-of-Sale systems are easy targets for hackers

New Delhi: A great article on the ThreatPost recently really hit close to home. According to the article, Point-of-Sale (POS) systems are becoming a favorite target of hackers, even over online e-commerce sites.The reason? Magnetic strip information. Hacking a website may reveal credit card number and expiration data but not the magnetic strip data:But when magnetic strip data is not available... By

NetApp buys LSI Storage Division for $480M

SANTA CLARA, Calif. Just as there is a trend toward convergence of functionality in data center systems these days, there is an equal amount of convergence among entire companies in the data-storage sector.NetApp on March 9 joined the ranks of companies adding big data storage capabilities when it announced the acquisition of LSI Corp.'s Engenio storage systems business in a $480 million, all-... By

SSD behavior underlying digital forensics

New Delhi: Forensically capturing a conventional disk is straightforward: power down the system, attach the drive to a portable forensic unit using a protective write-blocking device, and then capture the device bit-for-bit.Since the drive is protected by a write blocking device, the drive is presumed completely intact. Non-conventional mass storage devices (e.g., solid-state disks, hereafter... By

India Printer, MFP market grew 10% in Q4 2010

New Delhi: The combined serial inkjet and page printer, copier and multifunction product (MFP) market in India totaled 6,81,142 units in the fourth quarter of 2010, a 10 percent increase from the fourth quarter of 2009, according to Gartner"With the growth in IT sector and overall consumer confidence, there has been a spur in IT spending including the small and midsize business (SMB) and... By

17 Second Solution

As we play a number of roles simultaneously in our life, we do fail to achieve or maintain a balance between our professional and personal life. The same failure is experienced by a corporate house in terms of revenue leakage, employee retention, team management, sales graph and innovative strategies. If you had to recall memories from your past your first day at college, your first boss, your... By

The Shock of the Visual

As Ivan Seidenberg discussed in his 2011 CES keynote, there technology is having a dramatic impact on the way we live our lives today. Wireless data usage and Smartphone penetration is growing rapidly; a new computing platform for mobile broadband has emerged, creating the market for mobile apps that is changing the way we relate to the Internet. Millions now have increasingly high speed... By

A Wake Up Call!

Being a HR consultant, Ive been fortunate enough to observe the rise and descent of some organisations. Not so surprisingly, one of the major factors that define the scope of winning or losing is the way businesses handle their partnersboth external and internal. While many of them take utmost care in dealing with their external customers, they simply lack skills to meet the expectation of... By