Use your vote to improve the channel

ICT resellers are urged to use the power of their vote in the 2014 Channelwise Awards to ensure they get the best possible products and services from their vendors and distributors. Online voting for SME and Consumer resellers in the 2014 Channelwise Awards is now...

Different businesses worry about different threats

Industrial and production businesses have security priorities that are drastically different from service-based industries. Industrial sectors can value (or under-value) certain types of data far differently than other businesses, and even amongst different industrial...

Users really are bringing their own devices

Bring your own device (BYOD) is definitely taking off, with approximately 40% of US consumers who work for large enterprises using their personally owned smartphone, desktop or laptop daily for some form of work purposes, according to a recent survey by Gartner. The...

Strong growth for connected devices

The global market for broadband consumer premises equipment (CPE) will end 2014 with the highest growth in revenues since 2010, increasing by 20% from 2013 to reach nearly $11-billion. According to HIS Technology, revenue this year is set to expand by a whopping...

Services operating income increased in 2013

In a newly released study, International Data Corporation (IDC) announced that services operating income for the entire services market increased from 12,3% in 2012 to 13,4% in 2013. Vendors most commonly attributed this increase to the reduction of their labour cost...

This POODLE bites

POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) is a vulnerability that enables attackers to gain access to things like passwords, cookies and users private account data on a website. It exploits the outdated SSL 3.0 security protocol. Says Bodo Möller, Google...