Ad-blocking on both desktop and mobile devices is becoming more and more common. But does this mean advertisers are increasingly wasting their time?

A new survey of over 500 consumers by consumer intelligence and predictive marketing company Boxever reveals that 70 percent of consumers surveyed say they're likely or extremely likely to use ad-blocking apps, and another 15 percent said they'd consider it.

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Every organization believes that it's making its systems secure, but because they usually work in isolation from competitors and other businesses they have no way of knowing how they compare.

The Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM) aims to quantify security practices and present them in a measurable way to allow companies to compare their performance.

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At a time when the speed of application development is vital to commercial success, the DevOps methodology -- based on communication, collaboration, integration and automation -- has become one of the biggest IT moves around.

However, it’s more than just a business philosophy; to do it right requires genuine infrastructure investment and development.

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Sales teams are often saddled with outdated analytics and reporting which means that they lack a clear understanding of what's needed to drive the sales process forward.

Smart sales specialist TAS Group is launching a new Sales Performance Manager as part of its Dealmaker platform, which is aimed at helping sales leaders and their teams manage every aspect of their sales pipeline and performance with built-in knowledge and insights to help guide their decisions.

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It's increasingly common for hardware manufacturers and software developers to build in various security measures to protect users.

However, a new survey by cloud encryption company Alertsec reveals that these standard security precautions may be creating a false sense of security for PC and mobile users.

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Security solutions are lagging behind and failing to provide protection or detection levels adequate to protect against today's security threats.

This is according to a new survey from security and compliance solutions company Promisec. The results point to increased security gaps and vulnerabilities in spite of widespread fear of security breaches.

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The arms of the NSA may be long, but there are some parts of the world in which it holds no sway. Conscious of European concerns about US government web surveillance, Microsoft today announces German datacenter options for Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online.

Starting in the second half of 2016, customers in Europe will be able to opt to have their data stored in Germany. The datacenters will be controlled by German data trustee, Deutsche Telekom who will oversee all access to customer data. With Microsoft’s "mobile first, cloud-first" philosophy, this is a move to try to rebuild trust in cloud services which the company clearly feels has been lost.

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Work management software company Clarizen is announcing its latest release which delivers new options for viewing work and integration with the JIRA development workflow package.

Major features include an interactive Gantt view gives users visual representation of the workplan, on which they can take action, such as rescheduling work by dragging and dropping or creating dependencies by linking tasks. Users can also display key attributes -- for example percentage complete or dates -- on the Gantt bars, and share the Gantt as a widget with internal and external stakeholders.

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The shift towards mobile computing and BYOD has been the big story in enterprise IT over the past couple of years.

But has the trend towards mobile peaked? Can we expect BYOD to move into smaller organizations and what effect will legal and regulatory frameworks have? We spoke to Gary Greenbaum, CEO of BYOD billing specialist Syntonic to find out.

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Business workstations and thin clients are often boring affairs; however, they do not have to be. There is no reason why such a computer cannot have some sweet technology inside of it.

Today, HP announces the t730 thin client -- an exciting thin client. This svelte machine features a quad-core AMD APU and up to 16GB of RAM. The truly impressive aspect, however, is that it can natively support 4K video out -- HP claims it is the world's first thin client to do so. It features an impressive four full-size DisplayPort connectors. You can even add an AMD Fire Pro W2100 for a total of six Display Ports.

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The past five years has seen businesses enter a period of breakneck digital transformation with IT departments undergoing rapid change. Most large enterprises are either executing an IT transformation program or are about to embark on one.

When doing this, businesses need to ensure that it doesn’t turn out to be "Yet another IT transformation initiative" but one that actually delivers substantive value to the organization.

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Whilst most organizations recognize the importance of big data, the tools needed to obtain value from it are often complex and unweildy.

To make it easy for companies to build an organization-wide data analytics platform, business analytics specialist Looker is launching Looker Blocks for the Google BigQuery cloud analytics service.

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A recent study by the Business Software Alliance estimated that 43 percent of software installed today is not properly licensed, which equates to more than $63 billion in lost revenue.

SmartFlow Compliance Solutions is launching an innovative solution designed to help companies combat intellectual property theft and establish effective in-house compliance programs.

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As many businesses have shifted their systems to VMware environments they have a need for real-time insights into application and server performance, efficiency, and reliability.

To meet this need SIOS Technology is announcing the latest release of its SIOS iQ machine learning analytics software. This offers new features to deliver accuracy and precision in performance analysis for VMware environments.

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According to a recent study by the Ponemon Institute, more than 90 percent of organizations recognize cyber resilience as an essential part of protecting their core assets and business interests.

Part of creating that protection is to have an effective plan for when things go wrong and incident response solutions specialist Resilient Systems is releasing version 24 of its Incident Response Platform (IRP). The release features strategic integrations with IBM X-Force's threat intelligence feed and HP ArcSight, enabling organizations to gain insight more quickly and respond more intelligently to cyber threats and attacks of all types.

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