IBM research reveals mobile insecurity

IBM Security and the Ponemon Institute have announced research unveiling an alarming state of mobile insecurity. The findings show nearly 40% of large companies, including many in the Fortune 500, aren’t taking the right precautions to secure the mobile apps they...

Microsoft, Samsung expand partnership

Samsung is planning to pre-install Microsoft services and apps on its portfolio of Android devices and will deliver secured mobile productivity for businesses through a new Microsoft Office 365 and Samsung Knox Business Pack. For consumers, pre-installed services...

Samsung adds to brand stores

Samsung Electronics SA will bring the total number of its brand stores to 16 with the addition of two new outlets in the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal over the coming week. The first of the stores will be launched at the Pavillion Shopping Centre in Westville,...

Emerging markets ensure storage growth

For the second consecutive quarter, extraordinary growth in the emerging markets of the MEA region has ensured a 1,3% increase in terms of user value in EMEA for external disk storage systems. IDC’s Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker says MEA helped offset a flat...

Ericsson adds to 5G collaboration

Ericsson has announced new collaborations with two of the world’s most prestigious universities focusing on 5G and addressing both the technical implications and the societal challenges of implementing the next-generation of communications technology. The...

Retailers to ‘explore, exploit and cash in’

This year will see Western European retailers review and update their sales strategies by taking an “explore, exploit, cash in” approach. A new study by IDC Retail Insights predicts that in the short- to medium-term, Western European retail businesses will search,...