AMI StorTrends 3500i offers high performance storage for smaller enterprises
Most PC users probably know American Megatrends Inc (AMI) for its BIOS, but the company is also a major player in the storage market.
Its latest release, the StorTrends 3500i, is aimed at smaller and medium businesses. It uses a hybrid of SSD and conventional drives to deliver performance with lower capital expenditure than other solutions.
Outleads seeks to optimize telephone marketing with improved analytics
In spite of the rise of internet advertising, telephone sales is still one of the most successful marketing techniques.
Marketing specialist Outleads is launching two new technologies to give businesses more accurate data about their telesales.
Training reduces the risk of socially engineered security breaches
New analysis by security awareness training company KnowBe4 shows, perhaps not surprisingly, that training helps reduce risky online behavior in the workplace.
Carried out over a 12-month period, the study shows that whilst almost 16 percent of employees were prone to click on phishing links initially, this was reduced to 1.28 percent on average after training.
Google helps companies preserve legal mail trails
Introduced in 2012, Google Apps Vault is designed to manage business-critical information and preserve important data.
It helps safeguard information for continuity, compliance and regulatory purposes and is used by thousands of businesses, schools, and governments. Google has now expanded Apps Vault's capabilities by introducing targeted legal holds.
Intel unveils new solutions for education
Intel has used the Bett 2014 educational technology show in London to announce reference designs for the next generation of devices aimed at the education sector.
The Intel Education Tablet and Classmate PC feature student-friendly features along with Intel’s Education Software suite of learning tools.
Mobile apps will take over the world by 2017
New research by Gartner predicts that over the next few years mobile apps will become the most popular computing tools across the globe.
It says that by 2017 mobile apps will be downloaded more than 268 billion times, generating a revenue of over $77 billion. As a result it predicts that mobile users will provide personalized data streams to more than 100 apps and services every day.
PC and Mac games revenue to top $24 billion by 2017
We've been focusing a lot on the decline of the PC hardware market of late, but the software spend still looks strong. The latest survey from market intelligence specialist IDC predicts that PC and Mac gamer spending will grow to over $24 billion by 2017.
It also finds that while global PC/Mac games revenue is set to grow at around four percent a year the US market will start to slip.
Management and employees out of step on IT policies
Email encryption specialist DataMotion has released the results of its second annual survey focusing on email and file transfer habits.
This highlights a wide-ranging communications disconnect between IT management and non-IT employees on security and compliance policies.
1234, throw that password out it's poor
California-based password management software specialist SplashData has released the results of its annual list of the internet’s worst passwords.
For the first time "password" has been knocked off the number one slot. This doesn’t mean people are getting more security minded, however, as it's been replaced by the equally obvious "123456".
Latest Saleslogix adds social integration capabilities
It's a rare business package these days that doesn't claim to offer some form of social capability.
With the launch of Saleslogix 8.1, marketing and CRM specialist Swiftpage has added a number of features to help sales staff interact with their customers by displaying their social networking activity within the package.
Rise of the cyber tot -- 4 million British under threes use smartphones or tablets
Almost 3.5 million British children under the age of eight have tablets and nearly 4 million learned to use a smartphone or tablet before they were three.
New research from price comparison and switching service uSwitch reveals a growing nation of cyber tots with 29 percent learning to use a touch screen device before the age of three and 11 percent before they were two.
E-reading on the rise but print books still dominate
New research by the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows that the percentage of American adults who read an e-book in the past year has risen to 28 percent, up from 23 percent in 2012.
Yet the tree book isn't dead yet, at least in the popularity sense, as the results show most e-book readers read print books as well and only four percent are e-only readers.
Redis Cloud becomes available on SoftLayer
Garantia Data has announced the availability of its Redis Cloud product in the IBM-owned SoftLayer infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform.
IBM only acquired SoftLayer around six months ago but Big Blue seems keen to strike deals to make its cloud platform competitive with rival offerings from Microsoft and Amazon.
Smartphones improve the shopping experience
If you shop using your smartphone you are highly informed, social and seeking a superior shopping experience -- and retailers want to have your babies.
These (apart from the last bit) are the findings of the latest research by IDC which found that surveyed respondents believe the smartphone is transforming their shopping experience.
AV-Comparatives names Kaspersky as Product of the Year
Independent testing organization AV-Comparatives has released its Anti-Virus Comparative Summary Report 2013.
This rounds up the results of the company's tests carried out over the past year on 22 consumer antivirus and internet security products.
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