Paul Rubens

Research In Motion made some waves in the wireless sector when it announced that it would begin offering a tablet PC, dubbed the PlayBook, running on a new QNX-based mobile OS. The move was seen as a way for the BlackBerry-maker to remain relevant in the fiercely competitive mobile sector, as a slew of vendors […]

Google has led quite a revolution with the Open Handset Alliance and the Android operating system. In two years, it has become the number two smartphone platform on the market, second only to the well-established BlackBerry platform. But in the process, there has been some fragmentation of the market as companies have done their own […]

Linux gets all the copy these days, so it’s easy to forget that its origins lie in the Unix operating system, and Unix is still very much alive and kicking, even among companies embracing Linux. IBM has AIX, Sun/Oracle has Solaris, and HP has HP-UX. HP-UX still plays a major role at HP, powering its […]

Microsoft has not enjoyed the same success in the mobile phone market as it has in PCs, but it’s hanging in there with the company’s legendary dogged determination. Microsoft recently took the lid off of Windows Phone 7 and now has its new youth-oriented Kin phone. So, can these new products get Microsoft in the […]

The number of challenges posed by the mobile workforce isn’t decreasing, and the costs associated with supporting mobile employees is increasing. With researchers claiming a 70 percent cost difference between companies confronting the mobile management challenge, it’s time to learn about your choices. Used to be, mobile device management meant mobile IT had […]

Apple and Microsoft took the notion of ‘supersizing’ to the next level with the release of the iPad and the Azure platform. ServerWatch explains how this trend to go big or go home will impact the IT landscape going forward. Supersizing may have gone out of style in the restaurant world, but it sure is […]

A flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser enables Chinese cyber warriors to execute a serious attack against Google. Sounds like a nightmare for bother companies, right? Server Watch sees it differently. You’d think the news that Chinese hackers used a vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) to attack Google would be a PR disaster for […]

Microsoft always knew Google would be a threat in the online and apps world, but it probably didn’t think Google would threaten its operating systems hegemony, at least not in this manner. After a few years of promoting the whole on-demand/cloud concept – wherein the client OS becomes irrelevant – Google now is taking on […]

If protecting your organization from cyberattack is your responsibility, you probably have heard of the 20 baseline security controls that the Consensus Audit Guidelines (CAG) project defines and recommends. Speaking at the Gartner Information Security Summit 2009 in London, SANS instructor Stephen Armstrong outlined 15 “quick wins” based on these controls: simple steps you can […]

The security of your corporate data and the integrity of your company network are put at risk whenever you travel with a business laptop. That’s because the laptop is no longer protected by the physical security that your office provides, or the security systems designed to protect the software running on it. And any malware […]

Microsoft continues to humiliate Apple in both the desktop and server markets, with Apple’s market share stuck stubbornly below 5 percent in the former, and hovering a fraction above 0 percent in the latter. But when it comes to the mobile operating system market, it’s Microsoft that’s eating humble pie—of a brand with a distinctly […]

Microsoft continues to humiliate Apple in both the desktop and server markets, with Apple’s market share stuck stubbornly below 5 percent in the former, and hovering a fraction above 0 percent in the latter. But when it comes to the mobile operating system market, it’s Microsoft that’s eating humble pie — of a brand with […]