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Best Buy Stores Cut iPhone 4 Price to $50
Price cuts for Apple's iPhone have spread to Best Buy, where the retailer has slashed the iPhone 4's price to $50.
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Mentions: Frost & Sullivan Apple Forrester Research
VMware Envisions Virtualization in Post-PC, BYOD Era
VMware wasn't just looking to save money when it launched a BYOD plan with the mandate that all of its U.S. employees use their personal mobile phones for work. It was taking a crash-course that would help shape its vision of post-PC era computing.
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Outsourcing Contracts and Negotiations Getting More Complex
As IT outsourcing matures, you'd think negotiating IT service deals would get easier. Not so, according to the attorneys who deal with service levels, contract structure and pricing models.
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SMB Adoption Of Virtualization to Outpace Enterprises: Survey
According to a recent survey conducted by disaster recovery and data protection solutions provider Acronis, small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) around the world are planning to adopt server virtualization in 2012 at a faster pace than large enterprises. However, the survey also identified widespread backup and disaster recovery shortcomings for virtual servers amongst SMBs. Meanwhile, previous enthusiasm for cloud infrastructure has, at least so far, failed to turn into reality.
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Tablets and Mobile App Resuscitate UK Hospital's Workflow
Nottingham University Hospital's night staff was handicapped with archaic technology for assigning physician tasks and organizing patient information until an investment in Cisco Cius tablets and a third-party workflow app provided the remedy.
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Mentions: Cisco CIO Cisco Cius
Is the Next iPhone Coming in October? Of Course
It's time to place your bets: When will Apple unveil its next iPhone? Recent rumors have suggested a second-quarter debut, but that seems too early for a number of reasons--most notably that the iPhone 4S is still selling like hotcakes.
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Cisco to Add IM Software to Enterprise IP Communications System
Cisco Unified Communications Manager customers will get Jabber IM at no extra charge
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Virtualization Performance Management: Myths and Realities
Performance management has become the key element in maximizing any virtualization initiative, but many myths have emerged that, left unchecked, can stall an entire virtualization initiative. Here are the biggest myths and the corresponding realities to enable IT to chart an informed path forward and successfully scale deployments.
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Mentions: Network World
Google Chrome Browser Tabs Can Travel From Device to Device
Users who are signed in can call up Chrome browser tabs opened on another device
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Mentions: Oracle Netherlands IDC
Firefox Makes Progress on Metro Version
A preliminary version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser designed to work with Microsoft's Metro interface for Windows 8 is up and running, according to a blog post from platform engineer Brian Bondy.
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Mentions: Microsoft Oracle Performance Management
A Sampling of BYOD User Policies
Just say the words "bring your own device" and IT staffers start to rub their foreheads. Allowing users to attach their consumer devices, including smartphones and tablets, to the network might seem like a bad idea, but with a clear user policy that is re-signed annually, you can reduce a lot of organizational risk.
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Mentions: ERP Frost & Sullivan Netherlands
CFOs "Will Be More Involved in IT"
Google survey reveals CFOs will exert more influence in purchasing and management of IT systems
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Mentions: Google IBM Frost & Sullivan
How Secure Is the Cloud? IT Pros Speak Up
The cloud promises reduced costs and increased flexibility, but it also raises security concerns. Most IT professionals cite cloud security as a high priority, but a whopping 82 percent also trust it enough to use it. For more on how your peers view cloud security, check out our data-packed infographic.
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Mentions: Frost & Sullivan Forrester Research API
Are Tablets Inevitable As PC Replacements?
IDC in February forecast rapid growth in sales of Android tablets as well as continued sales growth for iPads. The market research firm forecasts that just under 90 million tablets will be sold worldwide this year. In 2015, according to IDC, tablet sales will come within striking distance of 140 million, with Apple's iOS capturing 51% of sales and Android grabbing 47%. Do those numbers make you think PCs are dead? Actually, sales of PCs are growing modestly.
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Mentions: Apple Computerworld IDC
US Lawmakers Question IPhone App Developers in Privacy Inquiry
Democrats on the House Commerce Committee asked developers of social apps to disclose their data collection practices
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Mentions: International Data Group
Facebook Reportedly Buys IBM Patents
The acquisition could help it shore up defenses against new patent infringement lawsuits
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Mentions: iOS International Data Group
MDM: Part of the Mobile Security Solution?
The good news for enterprises: Mobile devices are packed with power. A new iPhone is 100 times lighter, 100 times faster, and 10 times less expensive than the luggable notebooks of the early 1980s. What's good news for enterprises is also bad news for CISOs. Mobile devices can store substantial quantities of data, the applications are powerful, and their network speeds are forever increasing.
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Mentions: IDC Forrester Research
From Coca-Cola: How to Empower IT
As the CIO of the Coca-Cola's Bottling Investments Group, Javier Polit has strong ideas about how to ensure that IT is in sync with the company's business needs.
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Google Search to Be Overhauled
Google is overhauling its search engine to provide a more direct answer to user queries, rather than just supplying web links.
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Developers Optimize Apps for New Retina Display
Throngs of tech enthusiasts, hoping to buy a new iPad on the first day of its release, will likely endure long lines at Apple Stores on Friday. And after unboxing the object of their desire, they'll immediately seek out apps that exploit the tablet's dazzling Retina display, which has a resolution of 2048 by 1536 pixels.
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Mentions: Performance Management BMC IDC
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