The big four firm saw UK profits drop 5pc in 2011 to £396m after what UK chairman, John Griffiths-Jones, called a “tricky year”. The pool of profits shared among the partners fell to £683,000 from £763,000.
Total sales for KPMG’s UK practic…
SMEs to become targets of more sophisticated cyber-crime in 2012
SMEs will increasingly become targets of more sophisticated cyber-crime in 2012 that will be more difficult to detect, experts predict.
The forecast comes alongside another prediction that “hacktivists” – hackers who break into security systems to pr…
35 Million Phones Sold in 2011 Can Make Mobile Payments
Thirty-five million Near Field Communications (NFC)-enabled phones were shipped in 2011, in what has been described as a “breakthrough year” for the mobile payments technology.
According to analyst firm IMS Research, that number could grow to nearly 80…
Pre-paid Chinese users still anonymous despite new law
What countries permit you to have an ID-free phone?
For the last 12 months it has been illegal to buy a mobile phone in China without presenting ID, but Chinese customers seem as reluctant to be identified as everyone else.…
Lab Matters – Alexey Polyakov: "Corporate Incidents: Lessons Learned"
Alexey Polyakov is a Head of the Global Emergency Response Team of Kaspersky Lab – a new security policy consultation service for current and new corporate customers. Over the last 12 months this new service has responded to numerous incidents in which…
Boot up: Google buys Dealmap, Apple blocks Samsung Galaxy Tab down under, and more
Question is: what took it so long? CIA >> xkcd Plus the title text, of course. The two existential threats to Nokia: why Nokia is on the endangered species list and will not survive 12 months >> Tomi Ahonen Tomi Ahonen, ex-Nokia exec, alway…
Intel vs. ARM: The Battle Isn’t Over Yet
The market seems to think that the folks at ARM and its licensees (TI, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Marvel, Apple, et. al.) are on the verge of attacking Intel where it is most susceptible – the PC and server space. Indeed, ARM is making inroads with low power …
Playstation Network Down Still as Sony Rolls Out New Identity Theft Protection M
The security breach that brought the Playstation Network down on April 21st, 2011, which allegedly compromised the credit card details of some U.S. and Non-U.S. PSN users, is exactly what Sony wants to prevent by offering all PSN members free identity …
Playstation Network Down Still as Sony Rolls Out New Identity Theft Protection
The security breach that brought the Playstation Network down on April 21st, 2011, which allegedly compromised the credit card details of some U.S. and Non-U.S. PSN users, is exactly what Sony wants to prevent by offering all PSN members free identity …
Canada Fast Developing Into the New Home for Hackers
Canada has in the past been known for Mounties, ice hockey, showing off their superior language skills by using both English and French, and the weather also being a bit chilly – but very recently the country has sadly become an ideal location f…
