Since RIM launched its capital BlackBerry handset more than a decade ago, smartphones have become not quite ubiquitous. Now there are copious devices, operating systems and applications to wheedle users. Pressure is therefore mounting on IT decision-makers to continue abreast of developments in the smartphone market and tailor their offerings toward this increasingly popular channel. [...]

Computerworld Contrary to popular belief, enterprises are not wedded to Microsoft Corp.s old and buggy Internet Explorer 6 but have largely dumped the browser, a researcher said today. IE6 is running on only 8.3% of the PCs powered by Windows XP that Devil Mountain Softwares community-based Exo. performance. network XPnet tracks, said Craig Barth, the [...]

Samsungs Galaxy Tab by the much-anticipated Android 2.2 mobile operating system will have ~ing available this fall and promises to give Apple a run as being its money in the emerging and already hotly contested tablet PC extent. As Enterprise Mobile Today reports, the Galaxy Tab will be to be turned to account on all [...]

CIO The worst CIO misunderstanding about service-oriented architecture SOA is thinking of it as only another technical initiative for software reuse. Although SOAs reuse potential is real and good, its business impact goes much further In Forrester surveys, 38 percent of Global 2000 SOA users say they are using it for strategic business transformation. SOAs [...]

Looking to increase its revenue, SlideShare is rolling out a subscription-based version of its of the people presentation-sharing service. SlideShare is offering three tiers of its novel subscription service. A “silver” version caters to individual professionals. The “gold” benefit is designed for small businesses, while the top-tier “platinum” targets the essay market. Datamation takes a [...]

The global server market is witnessing a rare boom. This is the result of an apparent stabilisation in the economic climate combined with a surge in businesses’ data-handling needs. The difficult economic environment in 2009 forced businesses to defer purchases of servers in order to minimise costs. This extended the replacement cycle for the products, [...]

Train operator Go-Ahead is to start the UK’s first ITSO-based commercial smartcard trial across its London Midland franchise. Called The Key, the smartcard is based on the ITSO industry standard mandated by the Department for Transport DfT. The trial will start at the end of February in the Worcester area ahead of a wider rollout [...]

Network World “For people with the right skills and the right attitude, this is a fantastic time to be in the data center space,” says Dwight Gibbs, senior vice president of technology at Input, a Reston, Va. market intelligence firm. Where the IT jobs are 10 American cities The enterprise data center has become the [...]

The Number Resource Organisation NRO has reported that less than five per cent of the world’s IPv4 addresses remain unallocated. NRO chairman Axel Pawlik said This is a major milestone in the life of the internet, and means that allocation of the remain blocks of IPv4 to the regional internet registries is imminent.” It is [...]

InfoWorld It cant be easy being Ray Ozzie. Microsofts chief software architect is just 18 months into the job as Bill Gates handpicked successor, yet depending on whom you ask, his tenure will either signal a bold new era for the company or mark the beginning of its terminal decline. From the perspective of Microsoft [...]