Failure to address IT business risk can jeopardise business outcomes, and it outlines potential blind spots for Chief Information Officers and IT leaders worldwide, said Mercury Interactive Corp. in a survey report produced in cooperation with the Economist Intelligence...

The use of stealth technologies to conceal both malware and commercially viable Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) is on the rise, according to research study results published by McAfee. The findings also suggest that online collaboration sites and blogs contribute to the increased proliferation and complexity of rootkits...

Sun Microsystems has unveiled its next generation of Sun Ray hardware and software products. The company claims the new offering consumes as little as four watts, taking secure and environmentally friendly "thin" computing to a new level, with lower cost and higher performance options, and support for the Windows desktop environment...

Yahoo! has unveiled Yahoo! FareChase product, a travel search engine that the company claims will provide travelers with the best prices from across the internet and travel insights from the Yahoo! community. Yahoo! intends to tout the new product as the "one trusted travel source, consumers can eliminate the need for multiple online searches, and therefore save time, effort and money"...

Serena Software haspublished the results of its second Asia-Pacific (APAC) CIO surveys carried out in late 2005 and early 2006. The Singapore survey contacted 100 CIOs from medium and large sized companies based in Singapore. CIO surveys, led by MarketShare, were also carried out concurrently in Australia, Japan and Korea with 100 CIOs surveyed in each market...

China’s Linux market revenue reached USD11.8 million in 2005, up 27.1% over 2004. 2005 saw a steady growth in the China Linux market, brought about mainly by the huge volume of government procurements and large-scale SCO Unix replacement by major banks and industrial projects such as Telecommunication and Internet cafes...

BlackBerry users around the world, including Yahoo! Go for Mobile, Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger. This development is the result of an expanded strategic global alliance between Yahoo! Inc., and Research In Motion (RIM). "Our Yahoo! users want to access our services from all of their connected devices...

The compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) for the client PC market from 2006-2010 for Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka will reach 19%, 22% and 11% respectively, said market intelligence and advisory services company, IDC.

Thailand-based mobile software company Vervata has rolled out an application, FlexiSpy, for Symbian mobile phones to capture call logs, text messages and mobile Internet activity. Vervata advertises the software as a tool to monitor kids and unfaithful...

Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are nearly twice as likely to use software-as-a-service (SaaS) for business-critical operations than large enterprises, says IT market research and consulting firm, Saugatuck. Based on responses from more than 150 U.S. business and IT executives surveyed in January 2006, Saugatuck says that SMB...

Market intelligence and advisory services provider IDC announced the winners of its Dynamic IT Benchmark Survey and presented awards to the following companies for innovative IT best practices and dynamic IT vision across IDC's Six Pervasive Principles...

It's time for strategic change at Borland. With open source tools cutting into Borland's traditional business, the company is selling out its developer tools business and acquiring testing company Segue software. The tools that will see a change of guard include: Delphi, C++Builder...

Research firm Gartner, Inc. has placed McAfee in the leader quadrant in its "Magic Quadrant for Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), 2H05", as published on 30 November 2005. Gartner's research examined the security infrastructure products and services of leading vendors in the intrusion detection and prevention marketplace...

Oracle Corporation is buying its struggling rival San Mateo-based Siebel Systems Inc. in a deal that values Siebel at USD 5.85 billion, continuing a recent shopping spree that has eliminated two of its biggest competitors as it aims to topple the industry leader, Germany's SAP AG, in the robust niche of customer management software...

China is striving to distinguish itself across all information and communication technology (ICT) sectors. The success of China's efforts to become a superpower in the ICT industry by 2010 depends, to a considerable extent, on the level of government involvement in the economy and the ability of local companies to innovate, said Jamie Popkin...

Sun raises curtain on Open Media Commons open source initiative, calling for an open source, royalty-free Internet standard to compensate rights-holders and stimulate innovation. In a keynote speech to leading policymakers, media, telecommunications and technology executives, Sun Microsystems President and Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Schwartz unveiled...