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IT professionals surveyed worldwide said they think their own employees pose a more serious security threat than outsiders, and often it's because of personal use of corporate assets, according to the third and final report based on a 2008 survey (PDF) commissioned by Cisco Systems and released Wednesday.

Other findings include: One in five Brazilian IT professionals said they think their employees are less diligent around protecting corporate data. And in China and in India, IT professionals are most concerned with data thefts through the use of USB devices including thumb drives and iPods in the workplace.

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Microprocessors capable of sniffing out and harnessing energy from the environment could very well be the answer to power scarcity, according to an expert in embedded systems.

Jack Ganssle, chief engineer at The Ganssle Group, has been developing embedded systems since the early 1970s. In the last three decades, he has managed more than 100 embedded products, ranging from deep-sea navigational gears to security systems for the U.S. White House, and sold off three electronic companies.

In Bangalore, India, last week for the Embedded Systems Conference, Ganssle sat down for an interview with ZDNet Asia to discuss the future … Read more

Redwood City start-up NComputing, whose technology uses the power of a single PC to power up to seven computing terminals, is set to announce on Monday that it has started the process of equipping 5,000 schools in India with its technology.

NComputing will provide about 50,000 students with access to the Internet as part of the deal, which will use two PCs in each computer lab to power 10 terminals at schools in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The deal itself is part of a $100 million effort that includes operating and powering the lab for five … Read more

The mobile-phone industry is expected to boom, despite the current global financial crisis, thanks to new growth in emerging markets, according to Portio Research.

In a Monday report, the analyst firm predicted that the world's population of mobile-phone users will increase from the current 50 percent to 80 percent in 2013. This translates to a "staggering 5.8 billion people," Portio said.

"The mobile industry continues to confound expectations with spectacular accelerating growth," the report stated, attributing the growth mainly to China and India's markets.

China topped Portio's list of top growth markets, … Read more

As promised, Dell unveiled several new computers Wednesday made specifically for emerging PC markets like China and India.

There are four new models in all under the Vostro line--two laptops and two desktops. The notebooks will start at $475, and the desktops at $440, and will be available in more than 20 countries in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Europe.

The notebooks are available in 14.1-inch and 15.6-inch sizes, and come with Intel Celeron or Core2Duo processors, and Ubuntu Linux or Windows Vista. The desktops come with Intel Atom, Celeron, or Pentium processors, and Ubuntu or Vista.

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More venture capital is flowing to India and China, in an obvious sign that Silicon Valley is no longer the only go-to spot for tech investing.

In the second quarter of 2008, venture firms invested $238 million in 17 deals in India, a 120 percent jump from the comparable period a year ago and the second-highest quarterly total on record, according to figures released Thursday from Dow Jones VentureSource. That growth was thanks largely to investments in advertising companies, including $70 million put into Laqshya Media of Mumbai, an outdoor ad company that runs digital ad networks. The amount of … Read more

Ever heard a safe-sex promo sung in multipart harmony? Have a listen to the "condom a cappella" ringtone. Just launched in India--where approximately 2.5 million people are living with HIV--it's part of a three-year ad offensive aimed at making condom use there more socially acceptable. And it's actually quite catchy.

The ringtone marks the latest phase in the mass-media campaign, which has placed ads on television, radio, and film, and in print and outdoor media. Ultimately, the HIV-prevention messages are expected to reach an estimated 52 million men.

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India is starting to assert itself as a center of high-tech innovation, according to a study set to be released Monday morning.

A talent pool of engineers working in research and development that barely existed 15 years ago has blossomed to 250,000 people, more than 140,000 just in Bangalore, said Vamsee Tirukkala, co-founder of the consulting company Zinnov, which conducted the study. That's second only to Silicon Valley. And as Indian ex-patriots return home and new college graduates stay home rather than read to regions such as Silicon Valley, as they have in the past, those numbers … Read more

Google's Orkut social network isn't just big in Brazil. It's also popular in India, especially among software developers, according to a new survey.

Despite Facebook's efforts to promote that social network as the platform of choice for third-party application developers, Orkut is used by twice as many software programmers in India than either Facebook or MySpace, according to an Evans Data survey of more than 300 developers in India. Software programmers in that country are heavy users of social networks in general.

Seventy-three percent of those surveyed said they had used Orkut, compared with 35 percent … Read more