BOSTON - Yankee Group has identified five consumer segments that are driving the mass-market adoption of technology products and services. With connectivity at the core of everything they do, Anywhere Consumers are driving a shift in buying behaviors that will have tremendous economic impact during the next five years. Increased understanding of this new marketplace
SAN ANTONIO, Texas - According to a recent customer survey conducted by Rackspace Hosting, a specialist in hosted IT services, nearly 70 per cent of respondents indicated that the number of IT functions they outsource to hosting, SaaS or cloud service providers should increase over the next five years. "We are seeing a trend towards
DETROIT - On this month's anniversary of 9/11, it is only fitting that InfraGard takes a moment to reflect on the event that was possibly the single greatest catalyst to the development of the security organization. While there are tons of websites that contain information about the terrorist attacks and subsequent reaction of the United
TRAVERSE CITY - A sharp decline in engineering-school enrollments in Michigan will have an adverse effect on the state's economy and also threatens the long-term recovery of the nation's domestic auto industry. "In the past six years new engineering enrollments at Michigan universities have plummeted by more than 13 percent compared to a nine percent
Dear MITech.Com Editorial Board, In an article you ran on August 4, 2008 "US Senate Approves Great Lakes Compact - House To Vote After Labor Day," you state that the Great Lakes Compact will "strictly limit water diversions." While the Great Lakes Compact could be a means to protect Great Lakes waters, there are serious
DETROIT - On May 21, President Bush signed into law the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, a law designed, in part, to prohibit employers from discriminating against employees and applicants for employment on the basis of their genetic information. Part of the reason for the enactment of GINA was to enable individuals to take advantage of
SAN DIEGO - ID Analytics, which providers on-demand identity intelligence, has released the findings of its survey that analyzed the criminal behavior patterns associated with the misuse of identities stolen from the workplace by employees. The ID Analytics' study, "Analysis of Internal Data Theft", sought to expose how, where and when employees misused data stolen
SAN JOSE, Ca. - Cyber-criminals have become organized and bare more than a passing resemblance to legitimate business today, according to Finjan's latest trends report from its Malicious Code Research Center. The report looked at the trend of cyber-crime during the second quarter of 2008, and it looks like cyber-criminals have gone up-scale. Finjan's research,
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - In Symantec Corp.'s July 2008 edition of its monthly spam report, one of its findings noted that hackers were using personal e-mail accounts to scam contacts in a user's address book. The twist was that the e-mail came from a user's hacked webmail account and was sent to their personal list
BOSTON - Spam is on the increase again, and Sophos' latest spam trends report shows that only one in 28 e-mails can be considered legitimate. The rest are like the Vikings in that classic Monty Python skit: Spam, spam, spam. While there have been increases and decreases over the last couple of years, with spam