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Gates: Windows 7 will 'take less memory, be more efficient'
Bill Gates has inadvertently confirmed that Microsoft is hard at work tweaking the next iteration of Windows - or Windows 7, to be more efficient where power and memory utilization is concerned.
Read more...Converged WiFi/cellular services becoming a reality
This may be the one area in mobile phone technology were enterprises have been more anxious to see results than consumers. Having shouldered the costs of fielding hundreds (if not thousands or Read more...
Sales of Mobile Phones Up in Q1
Sales of mobile phones in the first quarter topped a quarter of a billion units--up 14 percent compared to the same period one year ago. Demand from Asia/Pacific countries, including China and Read more...
Mobile Apps expected to grow to $9 billion by 2011
ALSO NOTED: Increasing shareholder value through IT; Accreditation for security professionals;
> CIO Executive Board finds high-performing IT functions can increase shareholder value by 20 percent. Read more...
Reigning-in mobile costs for globe-trotting travelers
Traveling abroad can cost companies a lot of money, not only in airfare and hotels, but in international cellular roaming charges. Make sure the mobile phones your employees will use overseas are Read more...
Using mobile technology for secure application delivery
The mobile phone might seem like an excellent way to deliver productivity applications but CIOs have traditionally been skeptical, citing security concerns. New technology in the form of biometric Read more...
Financial institutions should be careful of mobile malware
A new study from the TowerGroup focusing on mobile fraud and ID theft found that CIOs and IT managers of financial services institutions should work especially hard to create enforceable policies Read more...
ALSO NOTED: The pros and cons of email that goes poof; 'Serious' flaws found in Mac OS X; and much more...
> The pros, and the cons of email that goes poof. Article > 'Serious' flaws found in Mac OS X. Read more...
ALSO NOTED: IT lobbyists scurry to get favored proposals approved; Microsoft's Allchin takes a few steps back on security state
> IT lobbyists scurry to get favored proposals approved. Article > Read more...




