Would you believe 27% of firms are willing to bear the cost of some financial losses due to cybercrime because it’s less than the cost of upgrading data security IT systems. A survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab asked 3,900 participants across 27 countries about the obstacles they face in IT asset management and maintenance and…
The tech industry sure does love its acronyms. From bring your own device (BYOD) to choose your own device (CYOD), IT departments cannot escape the fact that employees are slowly marrying personal and corporate data onto one device. Wear your own device (WYOD) is preparing to be the next big headache. Unlike with smartphones, most…
The internet was certainly flooded with Apple news yesterday as the company released the iPhone 6s with a shocker toward the end. The phones iPhone 6 The iPhone 6 has a 4.7” display, slightly larger than previous models, and is 6.9mm thick! It will start at $199 and come in silver, gold, and black. iPhone…
Apple is developing a larger iPad, the ‘iPad Pro,’ with a 12.9-inch display and plans to begin manufacturing early next year, according to Bloomberg. Apple’s existing iPads, the Air and the mini, have 9.7- and 7.9-inch displays. So far, tablets with larger displays haven’t gained all that much traction, but Apple likely doesn’t want to be…
This is not a ‘phad.’ Phone/tablet hybrids, or phablets, are on pace to out ship PCs this year and tablets next year, according to a forecast from International Data Corp (IDC). The rise of phablets and consumers’ willingness to hang on to their current devices are slowing down the tablet market, says IDC, who further…
A U.K.-based glass recycling company battling the CRT crisis is bringing its smelting technology to the U.S. for the first time. With an air pollution permit in place, U.K.-based CRT glass recycling firm, Nulife Glass, says it plans to build and operate a leaded glass smelting furnace at a facility in Dunkirk, New York. Lead…
During 2014, American K-12 schools will spend an estimated $9.94 billion on educational technology, an increase of 2.5 percent over last year, with Apple’s iPad being the number one tool for students. However, it’s still unclear whether the tablet is the device best suited to the classroom. A study was done at a Hillsborough, New…
Apple is reportedly applying its “go big or go home” attitude to not only the iPhone 6, but its iPad also! The company is developing a larger iPad, ‘iPad Pro,’ with a 12.9-inch display it plans to begin manufacturing early next year, according to Bloomberg Apple’s existing iPads, the Air and the mini, have 9.7- and…
If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times – erase your phones or accept the consequences! But there are other devices harboring sensitive data that we don’t really talk about. For example, printers. Modern copy machines and printers have a similar hard drive to those found in PCs and laptops and store…
The Sept. 9 iPhone 6 release sure has its claws in everyone! While the new phone itself is anticipated to reign supreme in sales, the percentage of trade-ins of its predecessors, the 5 and 5S, is predicted to be the highest ever! Late last year, Forbes predicted a 15-20 percent value decline across all older…
Revenue for the cell phone recycling industry is estimated to increase until 2019, according to a recently updated report from IBISWorld. Rising commodity prices as a result of global demand from emerging economies have enabled cell phone recyclers to develop and expand their operations and hire more workers, which has rapidly increased the industry’s wage…
“The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated” – Mark Twain In 1897, these memorable words were attributed to Mark Twain, the masterful writer and observer of American life. Now—nearly 120 years later—the same diction can be applied to the turbulent tablet marketplace. In late July the mainstream media (i.e. Wall Street Journal) announced…
USA Today set the scene this week describing the ghost of offices past and the dilemmas of harmonizing BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) with mobile device security. ‘Work’ has become a sort of ‘frame of mind’ in today’s society. You can essentially work from anywhere at anytime with the help from mobile devices (whether they…
Employees may have to COPE with a new model for enterprise mobility. Bring your own device (BYOD) has been under scrutiny since its initial buzz in the corporate world in 2011. While a great concept, skeptics are concerned about mobile security with employee devices as well as the reality of it actually saving corporate funds.…
Today, ITAD represents an estimated $9.8 billion dollar market handling 48 million tons of discontinued or excess equipment, according to recent research by Transparency Market Research. TMR predicts this market will swell to $41 billion by 2019 on 141 million tons of used equipment. Finding the right IT asset management and disposition provider is like…