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CyberSecurity: Businesses Insuring Against Breaches and Hacks

By Dick Weisinger

As reports grow of the number of businesses being hacked and the losses of customer and company proprietary information increase, the interest that businesses have in protecting themselves with cyberinsurance is increasing. Cyberinsurance policies can cover things like the loss…

IT Business: CIOs Get No Respect

By Dick Weisinger

A majority of business leaders think that their IT departments are more of a burden than a help, according to the survey results taken by Forrester of 3500 executives.  CIOs are considered to be gatekeepers; they’re not seen as innovators…

Technology Market: Bubble or Not?

By Dick Weisinger

IT Industry business confidence is slipping.  A business confidence index, as measured by the computer industry trade association CompTIA, dropped in the third quarter from 61.3 to 60.1 in the second quarter.  The scale is based on surveys taken of…

Mobile Programming: Famo.us + AngularJS, the Integration of Javascript Frameworks

By Dick Weisinger

HTML5 mobile apps have been slow to catch on — because they are slow.  There’s a huge overhead from having to live by browser and HTML rules.  Manipulating the DOM in the browser adds an unacceptable performance hit to any…

Software Licensing: Is SaaS the Solution to End Software Piracy?

By Dick Weisinger

Pirated software is a problem.  But the size of the problem can be a real shocker.  A recent survey by IDC/BSA found that 43 percent of the software installed on PC’s globally isn’t properly licensed.  Nearly three quarters of the…