June 7, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
A new data plan announced by AT&T has customers furious, confused, thrilled and totally in the dark — all at the same time. So who wins and who loses in this pricing scheme change? The answer would likely be AT&T.
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Tags: AT&T, data, iPad, iphone, pricing plan
February 15, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
You think mobile data traffic is jammed these days? Just wait, say the folks at Cisco. The global networking giant says worldwide global mobile data traffic will grow 108% a year for at least the next four years.
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Tags: Cisco, data, growth, mobile, research, traffic, wireless
August 7, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck

Any parent can tell you that kids will likely scatter when grownups show up. And that’s what seems to be happening to the once-hip social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
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Tags: data, demographics, Facebook, Neilsen, Twitter
June 1, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Seen any change in your paycheck since 2009 began? Probably not, but that’s not news to the folks at Yoh, an IT staffing agency that tracks how much — or little — techs make.
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Tags: data, employment, index, survey, technology wages, Yoh
May 6, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Desperate times call for desperate measures. When employees are faced with layoffs, they sometimes do things they ordinarily wouldn’t. Such as steal company data.
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Tags: Cyber-Ark, data, layoffs, steal, theft
April 6, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Desperate times call for desperate measures. When employees are faced with layoffs, they sometimes do things they ordinarily wouldn’t. Such as steal company data.
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Tags: Cyber-Ark, data, layoffs, security, steal. company, Symark, theft
March 31, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Like the now-disgraced banking industry, thought by Alan Greenspan to be capable of self-regulation because it was in their institutions’ best interests, another sector may soon be facing its own regulatory Waterloo.
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Tags: breach, congress, credit card, data, hearings
January 26, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck

The Heartland data breach may be the biggest so far in history, but those little drip, drip, drips of company (and personal) data can probably be pegged to one of today’s most popular gadgets: The memory stick.
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Tags: data, lost, memory stick, security breach, USB
December 23, 2008 by Valerie Helmbreck
The McCain-Palin presidential campaign took plenty of hits, but a new one offers IT pros
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Tags: Blackberry, data, security, smartphone
October 2, 2008 by Valerie Helmbreck
Staying connected to customers and vendors can take plenty of an organization’s resources — unless technology shortcuts can step in.
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Tags: data, extranet, intranet, manage, security, sharing