Larry Barrett

Intel had warned investors about waning demand in what it called “mature markets,” tamping down expectations for the chip giant before it reported earnings for the third quarter. But against a backdrop of modest estimates, the Santa Clara, Calif-based firm managed to post profits of $3 billion, or 52 cents a share, sliding past Wall […]

Just what does the future hold for McAfee? The security-software vendor, the second largest company of its kind, is looking ahead to its “3.0” era, a phase that will see the firm expand beyond its consumer roots to target the enterprise, cloud and, eventually, hardware sectors. Such was the strategy CEO Dave DeWalt articulated at […]

Are there differences between how U.S. and smartphone users in other geographies, such as Japan, consume online media? Research firm comScore set out to find out the answer to the media consumption question and several other issues related to mobile use. As Datamation reports, comScore, found dramatic differences in mobile media consumption, brand adoption and […]

Facing an Oct. 11 deadline that would have discontinued service for its BlackBerry devices, Research In Motion this week reached an accord with the United Arab Emirates that will prevent the smartphones from going dark next week. As Enterprise Mobile Today reports, the threatened ban would have impacted more than 500,000 BlackBerry users in the […]

It’s become an axiom in the cybersecurity arena that hackers and malware authors target their threats around the most popular online applications and trendy news topics. So celebrity-themed emails are suspect. Ditto messages disguised as correspondence from the Internal Revenue Service at tax time. So is it any surprise that iTunes, Apple’s wildly popular music […]

Netezza made news last month when it was announced that the publicly traded firm had reached an agreement to sell out to IBM for $1.7 billion. Now, while that transaction awaits approval from shareholders and regulators, the company is out with a new real-time security monitoring application. Mantra Vault promises an instantaneous monitoring mechanism that […]

Adobe Systems is making good use of its security bulletin website these days, pushing out advisories and new updates several times a month. As eSecurity Planet reports, this time Adobe is moving up the release of an important Acrobat and Reader update by a week to get the fix to consumers and enterprise customers before […]

Every once in awhile, the good guys have their day. As eSecurity Planet reports, today’s news that the FBI working with multiple law enforcement agencies managed to break up a cybercrime organization responsible for using malware to steal more than $3 million from U.S. bank customers. The masterminds of the cybercrime syndicate allegedly concealed the […]

September was another banner month for security software vendors and malware authors as the “Here You Have” worm impacted corporate email servers around the world. But as eSecurity Planet reports, it wasn’t the only serious security threat to consumers and companies in the past month. AppRiver said beginning on Sept. 10 its filters began blocking […]

Apple may have ushered in the era of mobile Web application development, releasing tools that eager developers put to work building hundreds of thousands of apps for the popular iPhone device. And the company’s App Store remains the largest repository of third-party apps of any comparable platform. But how do developers feel? According to a […]

Research In Motion knows it has to do something to turn things around in the ultracompetitive smartphone market and where better to start than with its core mobile operating system software? As Enterprise Mobile Today reports, a RIM executive is quoted as saying the company plans to migrate its smartphones to the mobile OS underpinning […]

Small and midsized businesses in need of fresh capital to expand their wireless operations may have found a suitable option this week when AT&T Capital Services announced a new loan program for up-and-coming SMBs. As Small Business Computing reports, the new package offers loans for as little as $1,000, a nod to the tight budgets […]