Larry Barrett

Motorola knows what it’s like to be on top of the Chinese handset market. But when competitors came out of the woodwork with full touchscreens and tons of apps, it found itself playing catch up to the likes of RIM and Apple. But as Enterprise Mobile Today reports, Motorola’s latest smartphones offer the best of […]

Enterprise IT security staffers are supposed to be the ones warning about the dangers of sharing personal or corporate information on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Not falling for them. But as eSecurity Planet reports, a new and rather unique study by BitDefender discovered that IT security professionals were the most likely to […]

Success has come quickly for Samsung’s line of Android-powered Galaxy S smartphones. As Enterprise Mobile Today reports, the line of smartphones first available to AT&T and T-Mobile subscribers eclipsed the 1 million-units-shipped threshold last week, a debut that’s sure to attract more than a passing glance from the likes of Apple and Research In Motion. […]

CA isn’t shy about throwing around money to collect the parts and pieces it thinks it needs to offer a well-rounded cloud-computing portfolio for the enterprise. As eSecurity Planet reports, its $200 million cash purchase of Arcot Systems, a privately held developer of fraud prevention and identity access and management applications, brings a legitimate cloud-computing […]

Far too many small and midsized businesses are either relying on temporary security software applications that are out of date or not bothering to implement any security technology at all, according to a new survey by Panda Security. As Small Business Computing reports, the troubling results portend very bad things for both the companies and […]

Gwen Stefani, one of today’s most popular solo recording artists and frontgal for the group No Doubt, died in a car crash this week, according to a new malware scheme that’s making its way around the Internet and into an inbox near you soon. Fortunately, Stefani is alive and well, but as eSecurity Planet reports, […]

University of Connecticut officials are scrambling to notify 10,000-plus people who applied for admission to the school over a six-year period that a laptop storing their Social Security numbers and other personal information was stolen from the school’s information technology department. This data breach is just one of dozens of security gaffes that have plagued […]

In what one U.S. official termed the “most significant” breach of the country’s defense systems, a foreign agent in 2008 managed to infect military computers and swipe critical data on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Their tool of choice: An innocuous flash drive that spread malware through U.S. military computers. As U.S. Deputy Secretary […]

Research In Motion added a key cog to what figures to be a new-look BlackBerry App World site for consumers and developers looking to buy and sell new applications for its smartphones. As Enterprise Mobile Today reports, the acquisition of Cellmania comes just a few months after the company announced plans to upgrade its flagship […]

Few industries have benefitted more from advances in information technology than the healthcare sector. Between mobile devices, cheaper storage costs and a bevy of industry-specific applications, healthcare providers are — or at least should be — among the most technologically savvy consumer-facing industries in the world. But as Datamation reports, healthcare IT administrators are faced […]

Is Apple racing to deliver iOS 4.1 ahead of its earlier schedule? It’s a little hard to say, since the company doesn’t like to talk about its product pipeline, but the Web is full of plenty of rumor sites that are all too happy to fill in the blanks. If the rumors are to be […]

What’s behind Intel’s $7.7 billion acquisition of security vendor McAfee? Intel chief Paul Otellini says it’s an opportunity to integrate security on a chip. But for many of the big names in tech — like Oracle and Google — diversification has been key to keeping their momentum strong while key markets cool in the downturn, […]