Larry Barrett

For all hype and promise of mobile applications, a new study by the Pew Research Center discovered that the vast majority of mobile phone owners don’t even use the ones they already have and fewer still bother downloading new ones. As Enterprise Mobile Today reports, this lack of interest in mobile apps figures to change […]

Competition among smartphone makers continues to heat up, reflected in the latest comScore stats that show significant shifts in market share rankings. While consumers drive the bulk of smartphone sales, IT is increasingly keeping tabs on the industry both for internal purchasing and deployment issues and because a rapidly growing number of employees are using […]

Small and midsized businesses are finding they can reap huge benefits from participating in the social media frenzy on sites like Facebook and Twitter. But, as eCommerce Guide reports, SMBs are alsoplagued by security issues that most of their enterprise brethren have a far easier time resolving. Researchers said they expect these numbers to continue […]

It’s a been a busy couple of months on the acquisition front as tech companies jockey to fill out their product portfolios to better compete against one another and develop a deeper range of products and services they can pitch to the enterprise. HP was the biggest shopper, spending billions to acquire enterprise storage firm […]

It’s a bit of a broken record, but somebody managed to rip off a laptop computer housing the Social Security numbers, names and other information of more than 7,000 students attending the City College of New York. As eSecurity Planet reports, this latest data breach at a U.S. college or university underscores just how much […]

It was a simple spam campaign that got out of control. The lure of some pornographic videos was all it took to start one of the largest email disruptions in recent memory. As eSecurity Planet reports, the “Here you have” virus accounted for more than 14 percent of all spam messages at its peak late […]

The Web can be a dangerous place, and it doesn’t look like it’s getting any safer anytime soon. Quite the opposite, according to researchers at Panda Security. In a new study tracking the activities of malware purveyors, Panda concluded that no fewer than 57,000 new malicious websites are created each week. Of those, more than […]

Developers working on apps for the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch have long criticized Apple for its secretive rules governing which applications make it into the App Store and which are rejected. In more recent months, they’ve also spoken out about Apple’s stance on limiting the development tools they can use to create those apps. […]

It didn’t take long for Apple’s Ping social music network to catch on with iTunes fans. One week after its inclusion in the refreshed digital media store update, it garnered more than 1 million users and a bunch of annoying spam links and messages. As eSecurity Planet reports, Apple quickly jumped on the spam scourge […]

Constant interruptions and the huge influx of spam and malware on mobile devices aren’t enough to keep people off the grid. In fact, most cell phone users view their devices as a safety blanket that also happens to make it easier to organize staff meetings. As Enterprise Mobile Today reports, a new survey finds that […]

Even as the economy lurches back to health, executives aren’t looking to pad their ranks with technology workers, according to a new survey from the staffing and consulting firm Robert Half International. In fact, IT firms are planning only to hire about half as many workers as businesses in other sectors. That slump is owed […]

The Apple TV, long downplayed by company CEO Steve Jobs as a mere “hobby” for Apple, was thrust back into the spotlight today at a broad unveiling of new products by the consumer electronics giant. Jobs showed off a smaller, cheaper and streaming-video-dependent Apple TV, along with a bevy of services and features designed to […]