Strong growth in the PC and Tablet category drives record setting year HONG KONG, May 21, 2014 – Lenovo Group today announced results for its fourth fiscal quarter and full-year ended March 31, 2014. With record full-year revenue of US$38.7 billion, an increase of 14 percent year-over-year, a record full-year pre-tax income of US$1.01 billion, up 27 percent year-over-year and record full year earnings of US$817 million, up 29 percent, Lenovo had a truly outstanding year.  Lenovo expanded its number one position in PCs, adding 2.1 points of market share…

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Maggie Holland explains how a well considered and executed cloud strategy can be as secure as on-premise solutions. Nothing is ever 100 per cent secure. Now that we’ve got that piece of truth out of the way, we can focus on how businesses can make their infrastructure, applications and services – ultimately, their data – as secure as possible. There has been much debate as to just how secure the cloud is. For many organisations, it ranks as the number one concern when thinking about moving all or even part…

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During the first quarter of 2014 there were 42 million US households with a TV connected to the internet, either via a video game console, Blu-ray disc player, streaming media player or the TV itself. According to the NPD Connected Intelligence Connected Home Report, between Q1 2013 and Q1 2014 the number of homes with a TV connected to the internet grew by six million. The vast majority of this increase was driven by growth in the number of homes with Connected TVs and streaming media players. For the first time,…

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The brutal tech truth that links the problems of Rackspace, Dell, HP, IBM, Oracle, SAP, others Analysis What do all ailing enterprise IT companies have in common? Trouble in their core businesses due to the rise of cloud computing. The repercussions that the technology is having on the IT business are all around us, and its effects on the industry are as inevitable as gravity on a dropped bowling ball. Cloud computing’s rise spells trouble for any traditional Western IT company you care to name, and has already started to bite…

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Which is the most secure Web browser? Google Chrome? Mozilla Firefox? Microsoft’s Internet Explorer? It’s a simple question—but the answer is a bit complicated. In a Fall 2013 poll, security-conscious browser users overwhelmingly voted Firefox as the most secure. But during the annual Pwn2own hacking contest in March 2014, Firefox was exploited four times with zero-day attacks, making it one of the least secure browsers. To complicate matters further, a 2013 comparative analysis of five popular Web browsers by NSS Labs found that Internet Explorer outperformed its competitors. Even so, the NSS Labs research…

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According to the just released International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Black Book (Document # 248617), worldwide IT spending will increase by 4.1% in constant currency this year, down from IDC’s previous forecast of 4.6% and also down from last year’s growth of 4.5%.  According to the new report, IT spending has been volatile since the beginning of the year, with macroeconomic wild cards including the crisis in Ukraine and the slowdown in China adding to the general sense of uncertainty which continues to impact business confidence and investment. Pent-up demand should, however, drive…

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