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What is Authentic Change?

May 8, 2014May 8, 2014 enews

…and What’s happening at EMC World Global business is in a mega shift as their business lines envelope the global, mobile consumer with data rich offerings; as their operations eagerly vet out cloud as a platform for agility while hoping it delivers a better cost model for IT. We’re in a waiting game of sorts as companies test this out. SAP, as the current reigning champion of global business apps, is in the middle of this conversation in a large number of the companies who are working to evolve. We…

Leading Cause of Smartphone Theft: Careless Owners

May 8, 2014May 8, 2014 enews

Three million smartphones were stolen in 2013, but muggings weren’t the most common form of theft, according to new research. When you hear the words “smartphone theft” you might automatically think of a drug-crazed creep hitting some unsuspecting person over the head and making off with an expensive iPhone. Sadly, that does happen, but a new survey suggests many more smartphones are stolen because their owners carelessly leave them on café tables when they pick up their morning lattes. That “Doh!” scenario – which obviously isn’t restricted to cafés – accounts for roughly…

Private users are still targeted by cyber criminals

May 8, 2014May 8, 2014 enews

Cybercriminals are still following the money and they care very little whether they get to it through a targeted attack on a business or a more widespread spam campaign, seeding financial malware wherever they find fertile soil. With all the media and security research attention in 2013 being focused on the targeted attack phenomenon and the growth in the numbers and type of organisations falling victim to these attacks, it can be thought that traditional end-user level attack campaigns are on the wane. This is wrong. 2013 saw the levels…

Romtelecom & COSMOTE Romania end Q1 2014 with consistent results

May 8, 2014May 9, 2014 enews

Romtelecom and COSMOTE Romania announce key performance indicators for Q1 2014, ended March 31st, 2014, as reported by the OTE Group. “Q1 2014 figures for both companies reflect the first results of the strategy we have put in place for this year. Namely, on the fixed segment, the company focused on increasing the penetration of TV services. This is reflected into constant customer growth rate: 7.3% in Q1 2014 versus Q1 2013. On the business segment, the turn-key solutions for large companies had significant results in Romtelecom’s revenues. On the…

VMware brings Cloud Foundry up on vCHS as EMC spins-up CF-based software

May 8, 2014May 8, 2014 enews

VMware has finally launched Cloud Foundry on its vCloud Hybrid Service cloud alongside a broader partnership with big daddy EMC. The virtualization company’s chief executive Pat Gelsinger said on Tuesday at EMC World in Las Vegas that Cloud Foundry will soon be available on top of the company’s vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) cloud. Cloud Foundry is a platform-as-a-service developed by VMware-spinoff Pivotal that has some open source components, including a standalone PaaS project. It competes with similar technologies such as Red Hat’s “OpenShift” PaaS, along with the Rackspace-backed OpenStack Solum…

IBM Advances Fight against Cyber Threats with Comprehensive, New Threat Protection System and Critical Data Protection Services

May 7, 2014May 8, 2014 enews

With the Cost of Data Breaches and Advanced Persistent Threats on the Rise, IBM Helps Clients Detect, Prevent and Respond to Attacks ARMONK, N.Y. – 05, May 2014: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today introduced comprehensive new security software and services to help organizations protect their critical data in an environment where advanced persistent threats, zero day attacks, breaches and resulting costs to organizations are growing. Through pervasive behavioral analytics and deep research expertise, IBM can help organizations stop attackers from exploiting these vulnerabilities. According to two IBM-commissioned surveys announced today from…

Moving ERP To The Cloud

May 7, 2014May 8, 2014 enews

You can’t run a business without ERP. The term itself stands forEnterprise Resource Planning, but in essence ERP is about pulling together all the functions involved in a company into one computer or system. Everything from purchasing raw goods to shipping finished product, even HR and Accounts Payable needs to be accessible and useable in order to correctly handle the basic reason for a company’s existence: to get a product or service out to the paying customer. Whereas in earlier decades the processes involved in order fulfillment, purchasing, tracking, warehousing,…

Create an interesting LinkedIn profile for customers in 5 steps

May 7, 2014May 8, 2014 enews

LinkedIn, at the moment the most popular social media channel for social selling. Thanks to LinkedIn cold calling is almost over. But how interesting is your LinkedIn profile for customers and prospects? A lot of LinkedIn users see LinkedIn as an online resume. These resumes are refreshed almost every day with new posts and updates. Recruiters use LinkedIn a lot to find the right candidates and candidates use LinkedIn to find their dream job. But a lot of LinkedIn users use their interactive resume nowadays also to reach customers and…

Net neutrality solution may be a win-win for ISPs and users

May 7, 2014May 7, 2014 enews

ISPs want to regulate bandwidth. Users want good service. Researchers at Stanford University feel there is a way both parties can get what they want. Image: YouTube The FCC just released proposed policy changes in response to the January 2014 federal appeals court ruling (PDF) that rejected the FCC’s “Open Internet” regulations. Proponents and opponents have been vocal about the proposed changes to net neutrality, or what the FCC calls the Open Internet: “The ‘Open Internet’ is the Internet as we know it, a level playing field where consumers can make their own…

Symantec: Antivirus is ‘DEAD’ – no longer ‘a moneymaker’

May 7, 2014May 7, 2014 enews

Oh, and it’s still 40 per cent of our business Symantec, a company that has made huge amounts of cash as the largest antivirus software vendor for the last quarter of a century, looks to be getting out of that business and into fixing hacking problems rather than stopping them. “We don’t think of antivirus as a moneymaker in any way,” Brian Dye, Symantec’s senior vice president for information security, told The Wall Street Journal, adding that antivirus was “dead.” Dye said that modern antivirus software only stops around 45 per cent…