IBM, Accenture lead in cloud services
A new International Data Corporation (IDC) MarketScape report has ranked 13 leading vendors participating in the worldwide cloud professional services market. IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud Professional Services 2013 Vendor Analysis evaluated the following vendors:...Ultrabooks drive SSD success
Solid-state drives (SSD) got a huge push in the first quarter from greatly expanded usage in ultrathin/ultrabook PCs, as well as in PC tablets, where shipment volume to those sectors tripled within a year’s time in a mighty display of growth, according to the latest...DNA Bill closer to becoming law
The so-called “DNA Bill”, the Criminal Law (Forensic Procedures) Amendment Bill, has been adopted by the National Assembly’s oversight committee, paving the way to it being signed into law. Speaking to the committee last week, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa says the...Smartphone sales overtake feature phones
Worldwide mobile phone sales to end-users totalled 435-million units in the second quarter of 2013, an increase of 3,6% from the same period last year, according to Gartner – and smartphone sales overtook feature phones for the first time. Smartphone sales to...Bitcoin-like attacks set to escalate
The recent attacks on Bitcoin apps are an indication of the kind of mobile security breaches users can expect to see in the future. Applications using the same function to generate random numbers for security could be compromised affecting millions of users British IT...