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Name that tune...the rise of Shazam
Comment Shazam says it now has "significant penetration" across 50 carriers in 60 markets around the world. Shazam is a veteran of the mobile app industry. The company's business started life seven years ago as a simple pay-as-you-go proposition enabling... [12 Jun 2008]
Malware: From bedroom to boardroom
Comment Botnets gave them the anonymity they required and the increasing penetration of always-on home broadband networks made them very effective and often undetected by the infected host. Once the preserve of bedroom-bound teenagers, malware is now big... [19 Nov 2007]
Ben Verwaayen
AS Profile Following the advent of increased broadband use and mobile phone penetration, BT's heartland revenues were being eroded. A lot has happened since Ben Verwaayen took over the UK telecoms incumbent in 2002. [12 Oct 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Don't mess with mobile users
Comment But slowly and very surely the number of users grew until the magic marketing penetration of 30 per cent was achieved, followed by the rush to buy. Written in my home office just outside Woodbridge in the UK and dispatched via my home LAN and... [07 Sep 2007]
BI for all
Comment The penetration rate for business intelligence is generally pegged at around 20 per cent or less of potential users. Changes are afoot in the business intelligence market as vendors aim to accommodate all types of users and companies. [18 Jul 2007]
Editor's Blog: Should everybody be a security company?
Comment The good news is more companies are employing penetration testing on their websites, according to Peter Wood on the First Base Technologies stand. silicon.com editor-at-large Will Sturgeon is blogging from the InfoSecurity show at London Olympia. [25 Apr 2007]
Network horror stories expose need for understanding
Comment Penetration testers at SecureTest know better than most what employees could do on a network - especially those with an axe to grind. As a number of horror stories reveal, corporate networks aren't the safe and tightly controlled entities they... [12 Apr 2007]
The dos and don'ts of VoIP security
Comment Ken Munro, managing director of penetration testing company SecureTest, says: "Enterprises need to make sure that all of the firmware of the VoIP system is up-to-date. Make no mistake, says Anthony Plewes, VoIP is an attractive target for hackers... [04 Apr 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: No locks?
Comment That is, in a sane world wilfully proactive action would be necessary for any PC to be put at risk of infection and/or penetration. Written in a hotel near Morpeth, Northumberland, polished on the A1 heading south and dispatched to silicon.com from... [15 Mar 2007]
Q&A: Michael Birch, CEO and founder, Bebo
Comment They [businesses] can do that for free but if they want greater penetration they tend to work with us and we'll develop a marketing campaign with them. Michael Birch, CEO and co-founder of social networking site Bebo, has been the driving force and... [02 Mar 2007]
Leader: Why Vista's going to be a hard sell
Leader Analysts are a little more conservative, with talk of 10 to 15 per cent penetration in the first year, which is closer to the somewhat underwhelming reaction to Vista from silicon.com's CIO Jury panel of IT chiefs, who say Vista is two to three... [30 Nov 2006]
Leader: Linux vs Windows - is the battle over?
Leader One CIO Juror posited Mac OS X has a better chance of dominating the desktop than Linux - but given the low penetration of Macs in offices and homes, this seems another long shot. Remember the Battle of the Desktop? [08 Nov 2006]
Upwardly Mobile: Sente and sensibility
Comment Figures from ITU show that two years ago, mobile penetration was trumping that of fixed in Uganda - and, according to Vodafone, the country's mobile phone penetration stands at four per cent. Welcome to the first instalment of Upwardly Mobile, a... [25 Oct 2006]
Leader: Ethical hacking - launch, teach... hope
Leader However, attitudes to such courses are mellowing since the University of Calgary first announced it was to teach a course in malware writing and it's likely there will be a fair amount of approval for the teaching of penetration testing (as... [19 Jun 2006]
Analysis: The 3G world map
Comment It's worth noting, however, that even in some Eastern European countries where mobile penetration is approaching 100 per cent, coverage black holes - where access is spotty or even non-existent - still remain. [08 Jun 2006]
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