Apple and Google Android power ahead in enterprise mobility adoption, while Windows Mobile exits the top 10. – The trend of personal smartphones infiltrating the workplace is being led by
both Apple’s iOS and Android smartphone platforms, according to Good
Technology’s second quarterly data report detailing the changing landscape of
IT and mobile enterprise technology. In the fourth quarter of 2010, this …
Google Voice users will have the option to port their mobile phone number in the coming weeks. The service costs $20 for U.S. users only, but will it boost adoption of the service? – Google on Jan.
25 officially made number portability part of its Google Voice repertoire,
allowing users to take their longtime mobile phone number to the phone-management
service.
Google
Voice is a phone-management application that lets any user route all their
landlines, work and mobile call…
Small business owners are increasingly turning to cloud-based solutions, a survey finds. – With cloud adoption accelerating rapidly, research performed by
MarketBridge, a provider of technology-enabled marketing and sales
managed services and solutions, showed that marketing and sales are
leading business applications while security is becoming a cloud asset.
The company released the …
In a new report, CDW Healthcare estimates initial revenue losses for physician practices due to EHR costs, but predicts monetary gains upon completion of training. – Adoption of an EHR
(electronic health record) application could cost a physician $120,000 in one
year, CDW Healthcare reports in
its Physician Practice EHR Price Tag study.
CDW Healthcare sells a wide variety of hardware, software and support packages for medical practices,
including unified …
The growing cloud ecosystem will continue to spawn a new class of products and services, a Datapipe report predicts. – Datapipe, a provider managed services and infrastructure for IT and cloud
computing, issued a report outlining three cloud computing trends for 2011. The
company sees major trends for the coming year including the increased adoption
to cloud computing by large enterprise organizations, increased …
More and more organizations are implementing DNSSEC on their name servers. But the actual number of signed zones is very low, leaving these organizations vulnerable to cache poisoning attacks. – While organizations are beginning to adopt DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) to secure their Web sites, most of them have not correctly implemented or maintained according to specifications, according to a survey released by Infoblox on Dec. 6.
The sixth annual survey of domain name…
Deputy PM Jovan Krkobabić says be believes Serbia’s parliament will adopt changes to the Law on Pension and Disability Insurance by December 22. It is when in Washington, the board of directors of the IMF will meet.
Microsoft officials welcome news that the usage of Internet Explorer 6 is on the decline as adoption of the latest version of the companys browser, the beta of IE9, is rising. – Microsoft
officials have something to crow about with changes afoot for its Internet
Explorer browser.
The
changes are not so much in the way of new features added since the last release
of the preview or beta of Internet Explorer 9, but in the news that Internet
Explorer 6 usage is on the d…
Hollywood couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have given 150,000 dollars in recognition of National Adoption Day. The day celebrates adoptive families and draws awareness to the 100,000 plus children still in need of adoptive families. The Jolie-Pitt Foundation donated the funds to SOS Children’s Villages-USA, an organization that plays a pivotal role in providing [...]
News Analysis: Lowering the cost of a smartphone and keeping subscription costs low foster smartphone use, according to a study by mobile Web advertising company Adzookie.com. – The price of smartphones plays a major role in adoption
according to study by mobile advertising company Adzookie.com. Smartphone
penetration is greatest where the people who need the devices can afford to buy
them, and can also afford the monthly subscription charges, concluded the
study, which…
An NTIA report finds despite a rise in broadband Internet adoption in the U.S., socioeconomic hurdles remain. – A new study has found that socioeconomic factors such as income and
education levels although strongly associated with broadband Internet use are
not the sole determinants of use. Even after accounting for socioeconomic
differences, significant gaps persist along racial, ethnic and geographic lin…
Microsoft’s Windows 7 will see greater uptake by businesses in coming years, according to a new research report from Forrester. – Microsoft can expect businesses to adopt Windows 7 in
greater numbers over the next few years, as those firms undergo an inevitable
tech refresh. Thats the conclusion drawn from a Nov. 2 report by research firm
Forrester Research, which also suggests those firms will use the tech-refresh
opportu…
Technology services jobs have gained the most jobs over the summer months, according to government labor figures. Deeper analysis of the widest range of jobs in technology shows continued reluctance on full-time hiring and consistent opportunity for contractors and consultants on funded projects. – A
closer look at U.S. government data on
technology jobs shows IT services–known as those jobs that fall under the
category management and technology services to be the most robust area of
technology employment over the last four months. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which falls under the
di…
Research recently conducted at the Cloud Word Forum in London found companies turning to hosted software and cloud computing do so to drive down or limit spending while still implementing innovative new technology.
A new survey from the Linux Foundation indicates that Linux adoption is growing at the expense of Windows, particularly in the enterprise. – According
to a new survey from the Linux
Foundation, adoption of enterprise Linux is growing at the expense of
Windows.
The
Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the
growth of Linux, has published quot;Linux
Adoption Trends: A Survey of Enterprise End Users…
The Techaisle survey found that the inflection point for cloud computing adoption occurs at 20 employees. –
IT research firm Techaisle’s recently completed survey of
small and midsize businesses and their rate of cloud computing adoption shows
that while use of cloud services varies by size of business, the pattern of
adoption appears to follow a previously observed pattern related to adoption of
ou…
The Obama administration gives federal agencies new deadlines for adoption of IPv6. – The Obama administration has established deadlines for federal agencies to
adopt Internet Protocol Version 6.
IPv6 is an update of IPv4, and includes support for several times as
many addresses as IPv4 a fact that has prompted many to call for increased
IPv6 adoption.
Federal CIO Vivek Ku…
According to a new report from the Yankee Group, enterprise adoption of infrastructure as a service is growing rapidly. Indeed, 24 percent of users surveyed are using IAAS, with 37 percent more planning to in the next 24 months. – According to a new report from the Yankee Group, enterprise adoption of infrastructure as a service is growing rapidly.
The Yankee Group report entitled “Is IAAS Moving Beyond Just Cloud Fluff?”
shows that 24 percent of large enterprises with cloud experience are
already using IAAS, and an additi…
While 66 percent of U.S. adults use a high-speed Internet connection at home, the growth in broadband is slowing, according to Pew. The FCC is stumped over a broadband boost. – If the Federal Communications
Commission requires more firepower for its proposed National Broadband Plan, it
can point to the fact that broadband adoption slowed to a crawl in 2010.
Some 66 percent of American
adults now use a high-speed Internet connection at home, up from 63 percent in
200…
Cost-conscious businesses with a small IT department are more likely to migrate to cloud computing than their larger contemporaries, while SMBs in emerging markets like Latin America lead the pack overall, according to a Spiceworks survey. – During the first half of 2010, 14 percent of small to midsize businesses
reported using cloud computing services and another 10 percent reported plans
to deploy cloud-based services, according to a new study conducted by social IT
management application provider Spiceworks.
The findings were un…
