Tech Stocks Week in Review Featuring iPad

March 7, 2010 by ADMIN · Leave a Comment

From Trefis.com

Apple Stock: iPad Business More Valuable Than Mac Desktops - We estimate that Apple’s iPad business accounts for 4% of the $267 Trefis price estimate for Apple’s stock compared to about 3% for Apple’s Mac desktop business…

Tech Stocks Week in Review Featuring Dell

February 28, 2010 by ADMIN · Leave a Comment

From Trefis.com

Trefis Analysis: Notebook PCs 17% of Dell’s Stock on February 25, 2010 Dell shipped an additional 1.2 million notebook PCs in 2009 over 2008. We expect growth in the global notebook market to drive Dell’s notebooks sales in the future…

Tech Stocks Week in Review Featuring Cisco

February 21, 2010 by ADMIN · Leave a Comment

From Trefis.com

Trefis, named for its focus on trends, forecasts, and insights, is revolutionary in its forward-looking approach to stock analysis, which incorporates an intuitive look at the relationship between a company’s product divisions and its stock price. Services for Routers and Switches Make up 18% of Cisco’s Stock - Cisco makes a significant amount of money by providing troubleshooting and maintenance services to its hardware customers….

Tech Stocks Week in Review Featuring Apple

February 17, 2010 by ADMIN · 1 Comment

From Trefis.com

While many will equate the mobile age with just cell phones, the reality is that many new devices with entirely new use cases will enter our lives and create amazing experiences. This mobile age will require companies to have deep expertise in BOTH hardware and software to create breakthrough products, and I am bullish on Apple because I believe they uniquely have both the hardware and software skills to lead this transformation…

Sidekick Goof Shows Cloud Computing Risks

October 26, 2009 by ADMIN · Leave a Comment

By John Watkins, Attorney with Chorey, Taylor & Feil

Consider the possible consequences of a catastrophic loss of data a doctor’s office, an insurance agency, a law firm, or basically any other business. It appears that users of cloud based services may have little in the way of legal remedies. A very quick review of the terms and conditions for two of the best known cloud providers illustrate the issue.

Mobile Cloud Users Exceeds One Billion

September 27, 2009 by ADMIN · Leave a Comment

By Kevin L. Jackson, Vice President at Dataline

One has to wonder as application architectures adjust to cloud computing, at what point will it no longer be advantageous for application owners to define infrastructure in terms of servers, storage, and security devices?

Internet Security Alliance Review 7-18-09

July 18, 2009 by ADMIN · Leave a Comment

From The Internet Security Alliance

Twitter suspends accounts of users with infected computers; South Korea blocks sites to help end cyber attacks; Kansas audit raises computer security questions; Apple still mute to iPhone complaints; U.S. State Dept. workers beg Clinton for Firefox; Snooping through the power socket; New York official: Tagged site stole identities; Firefox 3.5 vulnerability rated ‘highly critical; Probe into cyberattacks stretches around the globe; BlackBerry update bursting with spyware; French workers threaten to blow up Nortel factory; FBI charges satellite descramblers…

The Evolution of Data Encryption Regulations

July 9, 2009 by ADMIN · Leave a Comment

Mark Wright, Principal Systems Consultant, Sybase iAnywhere

Massachusetts is taking data encryption regulation to the next level by actually defining what is meant by “encryption”, and this definition includes all data that is in transition, in storage, and on portable devices.