Trojans dominate Q1 threat landscape

During the first quarter of 2013 alone, more than 6,5-million new malware samples were created, following the trend of increasingly prevalent malware statistics of previous years. This is according to the PandaLabs Quarterly Report for Q1, which analysed the IT...

Tablets surge on strong Q1

Worldwide tablet shipments continue to surge, growing 142,4% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13), according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker. Tablet shipments totalled 49,2-million...

VMware increases revenues for Q1

Virtualisation and cloud infrastructure vendor VMware has announced that revenues for the first quarter of 2013 were $1,19-billion, an increase of 13% from the first quarter of 2012.  Operating income for the first quarter was $160-million, a decrease of 26% from the...

Retail sales disappoint in Q1

Trading conditions continued to deteriorate and the growth in retail sales volumes slowed further during the first quarter of 2013, according to results from the latest Ernst & Young/Bureau for Economic Research (BER) Retail survey.  Derek Engelbrecht, retail and...

Poor Q1, but notebooks set to pick up

Notebook sales didn’t have a good first quarter – as many pundits had predicted – with sales expected to hit 35,2-million in the first quarter of 2013, representing a 15% decrease from the 41,4-million notched up in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to...