The Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) is earmarking HKD$21 million to increase adoption of software-as-a-service (SaaS) among small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) in Singapore.   Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Infocomm Media Business Exchange today, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, Minister for Information, Communication and the Arts, said the IDA will issue Continue Reading

Nearly all businesses rely on information to be competitive and efficient, but just how much do companies spend on protecting the information they own?   According to a recent Symantec “state-of-information” survey, corporate information is costing businesses worldwide UHKD$1.1 trillion each year.   SMBs are also spending more per employee at Continue Reading

  Apple’s iOS devices continue to dominate the enterprise mobility landscape, even as more companies are warming up to Android-based smartphones and tablets.   According to a new report from Good Technology, iOS still accounts for the majority of mobile device activations. The operating system’s share of activations, however, slipped from 79.9 percent during Continue Reading

The age-old practice among labourers of the past who bring their own tools to work has found its way into the modern enterprise.   In the past year, technology companies from mobile security firms to IT consulting houses have been touting the benefits of allowing employees to use their own Continue Reading

  You’ve read countless case studies of how small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have turned to cloud computing to raise productivity, improve customer service and stay ahead of the competition. But is your company ready to jump onto the bandwagon? Here’s what you need to know before moving to the Continue Reading

  The business process outsourcing market in the Asia-Pacific region has more room to grow, according to a new study by Gartner.   In a statement yesterday, the analyst company said with the exception of Australia and New Zealand, the Asia-Pacific BPO market is still underdeveloped compared with the rest Continue Reading

  More than a decade ago, business intelligence (BI) was lauded as the holy grail to help companies make sense of the growing deluge of data housed on employee PCs and corporate data centres.   Despite the promises, many BI projects failed because companies often faced difficulties in integrating disparate Continue Reading

Data loss from lost, stolen or decommissioned devices and mobile malware have come out tops in a mobile security survey that was recently concluded by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).   Conducted by the CSA’s mobile working group, the survey involving over 200 enterprise respondents from 26 countries serves as an important Continue Reading

In this article we will talk about a very popular attack method used to infect legitimate websites: .htaccess redirection. This technique is used by hackers to redirect users visiting compromised websites to content on another infected or imposter website.   What is the purpose of the .htaccess file? Websites are Continue Reading