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What’s in store for natural search in 2011?  Among other things, Greenlight is predicting that Google and Bing will offer app search before the year is out, competition between Bing and Google will heat up and duplication filters will get even tougher as the search engines take more drastic measures to limit the amount of […]

The cyber threat landscape has matured over the past 10 years, due in part to the proliferation of new technologies and an increasing reliance on the Internet for personal, business and governmental needs. Wielding their keyboards, cyber criminals exploit new and existing technologies for financial gain, to exact revenge or to carry out political coups. […]

Job Description: Production DBA The Production DBA is primarily responsible for performing production support activities for data warehouse and transactional servers. Download this job description for more details on the qualifications and experience required for this position. The attached document is a typical job description for a Production Database Administrator and was provided by IT […]

The International Institute for Analytics (IIA) expects 2011 to mark the beginning of a multi-year cycle where the sparks of economic growth ignite a tinderbox of technology and business forces that are set to drive mainstream adoption of business analytics across commercial and government sectors. Without question, the competitive gap between analytical innovators and those […]

Gartner, Inc. has identified what it believes will be the most important mobile applications in 2012. Focusing on high-end devices with an average selling price of more than $300, analysts have identified the top 10 cutting-edge technologies and trends for 2012. Winning mobile apps will have unique features that cater to the mobile environment rather […]

According to Gartner, Inc., CIOs need to familiarize themselves with nine key trends in data warehousing and how they will impact the cost-benefit balance of technology deployed to deliver business analytics value during 2011 and 2012. Gartner analysts said the data warehouse is set to remain a key component of the IT infrastructure and believe […]

McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) recently released the McAfee Threats Report: Fourth Quarter 2010 report, revealing a steady growth of threats to mobile platforms. The number of pieces of new mobile malware in 2010 increased by 46 percent compared with 2009. The report also uncovered 20 million new pieces of malware in 2010, equating to nearly 55,000 […]

For the first time in six years, the number of consumers who switched service providers as a result of poor customer service declined in 2010, according to the latest edition of an annual consumer behavior study released by Accenture (NYSE: ACN). This occurred even as consumers continue to expect more from customer service and their […]

The constantly evolving technological landscape means that previous impractical solutions could become viable over time, while iron-clad "best practices" tend to lose their relevance. To help SMBs better examine how new developments and products are changing the shape of IT implementations, Paul Mah has drawn up a list of topics that he feels best address […]

Social media disrupts the long-standing rules of business in many ways, but crafting a social media policy is premature unless the designers of the policy answer seven critical questions first, according to Gartner, Inc. "Social media offers tempting opportunities to interact with employees, business partners, customers, prospects and a whole host of anonymous participants on […]

Apple's iPad continues to gain in popularity with consumers across the globe. Prosumers have brought the smartphone and iPad into the enterprise from the bottom up, which in turn has caused Apple to step up its enterprise game. We’ve compiled a list of 15 hot productivity apps that can make the lives of iPad users […]

Two major trends are reshaping the role of IT in the workplace. The first is the rise of mobile computing, which is being driven largely by end users buying their own devices and bringing them to work. The second is the increasing number of applications that are available in the cloud, which is leading to […]