Acer, the world's third-largest PC vendor, said shipments of its Aspire one netbook could reach 6 million units this year, which would edge out Asustek Computer's popular Eee PC at the top of the market.
The CDW IT Monitor finds fewer respondents believe staffing will increase in the next 6 months and more corporations think IT budgets will be cut during the same time.
The holiday preparations took their toll on the iOSphere this week, as rumorers, distracted by ordering and buying the latest Apple products, cut back on their speculative output about future ones.
Obsession is its own reward, as the iOSphere constantly shows. The rumorati were gaga over a stock analyst's speculation that iPhone 6 would be available in, of all things, different colors.
Even without Apple being at the gigantic Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas, it proved to be a treasure trove of iPhone 6 revelations for those with the wit to look beneath the surface of things.
The iOSphere was feasting this week on Notes to Investors, those alchemical documents that transmute the lead of iPhone 6 rumors into the gold of authoritative fact.
The combination of intense cold gripping much of the U.S. and feverish iPhone speculation is creating extreme rumoring conditions, threatening to drive the iOSphere into epistemological collapse.
Next week’s 3GSM World Congress -- the annual love fest for the global cellular industry -- will be the venue for an array of new products designed to give enterprises ever more capabilities, control and security over mobile computing.
The iOSphere was assured this week that it now knows the details of one of the Next iPhones, though this one is said to be not the iPhone 6 or even the iPhone 5S but the "budget iPhone 5," or iPhone 5B.
A program to jailbreak Apple devices running iOS 6 or above was released Monday, sparking over 100,000 downloads in the first 10 minutes of availability. The jailbreak modifies Apple's mobile firmware, letting users load applications from outside of the official AppStore, and access iOS files that Apple usually shields.
Just over two years ago we discussed a Windows automation tool, RoboTask, which we really liked and which has since had a dot release and remains a product of great value. But RoboTask is designed to be used with a single machine, so we decided to look at a more network-oriented automation tool: AutoMate 6 Professional Edition from Network Automation.
When Apple Inc. recently sent along one of its new iMacs -- a sweet 24-inch model with a 2.8GHz Penryn processor -- I agreed to take it home and give it a dose of family testing at the Finnie household. And with three kids aged 3, 6, and 16, that's saying something.
The depth of winter seemed to have a chilling effect on iOSphere rumoring. Most of the mongering activity focused on the shocking "news" that the 4.8-inch iHumongous phone has been "delayed" until mid-2014.
Part 6 of a six-part article: Just because you checked a few boxes on your Microsoft Exchange Server does not mean that there is secure TLS encryption between your domain and another SMTP server that runs TLS. The golden rule that should guide the actions of any IT professional is testing. You must test your program and configuration before you turn it into production. Without a good test, you will create a disaster for yourself or even for the entire company.
The iOSphere glowed as a delicious rumor of a "leaked" photo of the iPhone 6 motherboard flared into life. And then, alas, collapsed like a black hole sucking everything down into destruction and darkness.
C-level titles top the list of highest paid IT jobs, and technical support positions dominate the low end of the pay scale, according to new IT salary data from technology staffing firm Mondo.