While most of the corporate world went into Holiday Hibernation for the last two weeks of the year, we continued to scour the webscape on your behalf. And it’s a good thing we did, because there are at least a couple of interesting items you might have missed.

Both of these fit a common theme, and it’s something that should be on your front burner this year. In the face of increased cybercrime and intrusions, if there is going to be a Year of Security, 2012 should be it. More...

For the first time in history, the number of smartphones sold worldwide exceeded the number of PC sales in the fourth quarter of 2010: 100 million smartphones versus 92 million PCs.  In fact, smartphones grew 72 percent in 2010. Tablets are not far behind.  More than 17 million tablets were sold last year and Gartner forecasts 2011 tablet sales will reach almost 45 million.  That is a remarkable 164 percent growth rate. More...