February 24, 2012
HP, Dell warn of price hikes after Foxconn wage rise On The Register, Phil Muncaster gives a report. “The irony is that while they are claimed to be relatively generous, Foxconn wages barely give staff there enough to get by on once living costs at the plants dormitories are deducted, forcing employees to take on countless hours of overtime,” he writes. What’s your opinion?
SMB mobile device craze lacks proper planning, IT management On MSPmentor, Dan Berthiaume explains why. “otherwise misplaced devices with employee credentials and sensitive corporate data. More generally speaking, the study indicates the majority of SMB’s are highly mobilized, driven by the bring your own device (BYOD) trend of recent years, but SMB IT managers significantly underestimate the number and kinds of mobile devices connecting to their network. In addition, SMB IT departments lack solutions to map their corporate standard for information security used with laptops, desktops and servers to mobile devices,” he writes. What’s your opinion?
Kaspersky: Cybercriminals to go after Android On ZDNet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes looks at the company’s stance. “Kaspersky sees the future of cybercrime as falling into two categories. First, the consumer attacks, which he sees as increasingly being focused on Android based smartphones and tablets, and enterprise attacks will be more traditional computer attacks. These statements come a day after the release of a report that claimed that Android malware had increased by a massive 3,325 percent during 2011,” he writes. What’s your opinion?