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6 Mobile Security Predictions for 2016 – eSecurity Planet

6 Mobile Security Predictions for 2016
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From "riskware" to malicious mobile apps that circumvent app store controls by leveraging enterprise application distribution capabilities in iOS and Android, mobile security threats are on the rise. So it's no wonder mobile security is top of mind for

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Hack to the Future: Experts Make 2016 Cybersecurity Predictions

Everything from smart fridges to connected Barbies to the Apple Watch found their way into American homes in 2015. That trend should continue in 2016 — something hackers will probably exploit, according to several experts. “A new frontier of data breach …
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Gartner: Top 10 strategic predictions that could shake up IT

ORLANDO– The robots decidedly have it. They will help run businesses, make decisions for you and maybe even be your boss.

Those were just some of the predictions put forth by Gartner vice president Daryl Plummer at the consultancy’s always interesting prediction of future IT technology directions.

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“Robots are beginning to rise – don’t think Terminator robots – but smart robots that will have the ability to learn things better, faster,” Plummer

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Microsoft CEO Nadella joins Ballmer and Gates in making silly predictions

A year into his tenure, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has now joined both of his predecessors, Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates, in achieving the dubious distinction of issuing spectacularly unlikely predictions.

Is doing this kind of thing on some sort of Microsoft executive checklist?

Nadella, as you may have heard last week, was asked by an ABC News interviewer to name “a technology that we rely on today that will not be around a decade from now?”

Nadella’s reply: “Fountain pens.”

The interviewer held up her garden-variety pen and asked, “No more of these?”

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