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,...

Consumerisation set to change business

The widespread use of consumer technologies in the enterprise are having a sweeping impact on traditional ways of doing business and the results companies can achieve.  This is one of the findings from an Avanade survey of almost 600 C-level executives and...

Consumers more connected to devices

Consumers’ digital lives have transitioned from the PC to a personal, cloud-driven world that is driving a new type of interaction between consumers and their connected services, according to Gartner. Consumers will use and interact with a multitude of...