Humanitarian groups move to the cloud
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRS) has expanded on a global enterprise agreement with a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) to offer Microsoft Office 365 and other products as the standard communications and collaboration...Shaky start for notebook market
The world’s leading notebook PC original design manufacturers (ODMs) will endure a bleak first quarter and slow first half in 2013, before ultrathin PC sales help revive the market later in the year, according to an IHS iSuppli PC Dynamics Market Brief from...Polygraphs mooted to pre-empt crime
Rooting out “career criminals” is taking on a whole new meaning, as more and more businesses resort to polygraph testing to get to the bottom of workplace crime, as well as to identify would-be trouble makers before they are even hired. Willem Marshall, a...BI still in growth territory
Worldwide business intelligence (BI) software revenue will reach $13,8-billion in 2013, a 7% increase from 2012, according to Gartner. The market is forecast to reach $17,1-billion by 2016. “BI and analytics have grown to become the fourth-largest application...Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr users hacked
Users of Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr may have had their data compromised. The warning was issued following a breach to Zendesk, the company that supplied customers support service for all of the social networking companies. Zendesk posted a blog about the breach,...