Stories by Sophie Curtis

There are three technologies that will fundamentally change the nature of video over the next few years, and these are having a significant impact on the collaboration market, according to Cisco.

Software-defined networking (SDN) may be the buzzword of the moment within the enterprise networking industry, but it is a “limiting vision” according to Padmasree Warrior, chief strategy and technology office at Cisco.

The so-called 'Internet of Everything' – which brings together people, processes, data, and things – will create $US14.4 trillion of value for companies and industries over the next 10 years, representing 21 percent aggregate growth in the profits of all the companies in the world, according to Cisco.

Mobile network operators are in an ideal position to take advantage of the burgeoning enterprise mobile Cloud services market, because of the amount of data they have about their customers, according to Malcolm Nicholas, CTO of IBM UK and Ireland.

The Swiss healthcare system is facing a crisis. Fifty-seven percent of its general practitioners are over the age of 55, and new doctors coming up through the system are increasingly choosing to go into specialist roles, so there are not enough new GPs to compensate for the number of retirements that will take place over the next ten years.

Cisco made two significant security announcements at its Cisco Live conference in London this week, reiterating its commitment to offering an integrated platform for defence, discovery, and remediation of threats.

Malware is still the biggest threat to mobile security, but most mobile device management (MDM) strategies tend to focus on securing the physical device in case of loss of theft, according to Peter Gibbons, head of Information Security at Network Rail.

The global Connected Home market, which relies on the convergence of three industries – consumer electronics (CE), home computers and mobile devices – will be worth $101 billion in 2013, according to a new report.

Global shipments of smartphones are expected to exceed one billion units for the first time in 2013, according to a report by professional services firm Deloitte. This means that the installed base of all smartphones is likely to be close to two billion by the end of the year.

Scientists at Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology claim to have found a way to enable graphene to be used in high-speed electronics.

AMD's chief design engineer Michael Goddard has become the latest in a stream of the chip maker's senior employees to jump ship over the last year.

Nearly three quarters of enterprises in Europe are planning to increase spending on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) over the next two years, as adoption of cloud-based solutions gathers pace across the globe.

A panel representing about 50 of the world's national governments has published a list of the proposed generic top-level domain (gTLD) names to which it objects.

IBM is being sued by chemicals manufacturer Avantor Performance Materials for fraud and breach of contract, following a failed SAP software implementation.

Enterprises are leaning towards adoption of full Intel-based Windows 8 devices, rather than lighter-weight Windows RT devices running on ARM processors.