Ten hot upcoming cybersecurity events you should know about

Ten hot upcoming cybersecurity events you should know about:

The big events in our industry including RSA Conference, Black Hat, Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, plus the major vendor conferences, are splashed all over the media and industry calendars… and chances are you already know about them.

Here’s a roundup of 10 hot cybersecurity events you probably don’t know about… and they all take place before the end of this year.

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These upcoming events are more narrowly focused on specific cybersecurity sectors and topics, and well worth consideration by CIOs, CSOs, CISOs, IT and security professionals, vendors and service providers, members of the media, students, job-seekers, recruiters, and anyone in the cyber community. If you’ve got the time and budget, then you might want to squeeze one or two of them on to your calendar.

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Samsung is reportedly working a truly massive iPad Pro rival

Samsung is reportedly working a truly massive iPad Pro rival:

Samsung is reportedly working on a tablet so big that it may even make Apple's rumored 12.9-inch iPad Pro seem minuscule by comparison. According to SamMobile, the company that popularized the phablet is now hard at work on a tablet with a gargantuan 18.4-inch display.

Based on information obtained by the site, the rumored tablet will sport a TFT LCD display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080, an octa-core 64-bit 1.6GHz Exynos 7580 processor, 2GB of RAM, a respectable 32GB of storage, and to top it all off, a microSD card slot. Rumored to run Android 5.1 Lollipop, the device will reportedly feature an 8 megapixel rear facing camera and a front facing 2.1 megapixel camera.

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Samsung runs out of phones for its test drive promotion aimed at iPhone users

Samsung runs out of phones for its test drive promotion aimed at iPhone users:

It was just Thursday when we told you about Samsung's attempt to get Apple iPhone users to switch to a Samsung Galaxy Note5, Samsung Galaxy S6 edge or a Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+. Any U.S. resident 18 or older with an iPhone hooked up to an active wireless account, could go to SamsungPromotions.com and arrange to test drive one of the three aforementioned handsets for just $1. Samsung sends the phone with an activated SIM card, and a guide to help those test driving one of the devices learn how to use it.



Apparently, Samsung's offer must have tempted quite a number of iPhone users, because ...

Swatch plans multiple smartwatches, but they'll be simple

Swatch plans multiple smartwatches, but they'll be simple:

Swatch has only just dipped its toes into the smartwatch waters, but it already has grand ambitions in the category. CEO Nick Hayek tells Tages-Anzeiger that next year's Touch Zero Two (due around the Rio Olympics in August) is just the start. Th...

10.1-inch LG G Pad II to be unveiled at IFA next month

10.1-inch LG G Pad II to be unveiled at IFA next month:

After introducing the LG G Pad II 8.0 in South Korea earlier this month, LG announced on Monday that it will unveil a 10.1-inch version of the LG G Pad II at IFA next month in Berlin. The slab will feature a 1200 x 1920 WUXGA resolution display. That works out to a pixel density of 224ppi. Powering the tablet is the Snapdragon 800 SoC, carrying a 2.26GHz CPU and the Adreno 330 GPU.



One of the main features of the LG G Pad II 10.1 will be its 7400mAh battery, which LG says is the largest in its class. The tablet will also feature something that the manufacturer calls Reader Mode, which ...

Asustek aims to be top-10 smartphone vendor in 2016, says CEO

Asustek aims to be top-10 smartphone vendor in 2016, says CEO: Asustek computer aims to ship 40 million smartphones globally in 2016, becoming one of the world's 10 largest vendors, according to company CEO Jerry Shen.

Lenovo reportedly to raise PC prices in China because of Chinese yuan deprecation

Lenovo reportedly to raise PC prices in China because of Chinese yuan deprecation: China-based Lenovo reportedly is planning to raise its PC prices in China at the end of August due to a significant depreciation of the country's currency, and the vendor will next raise the prices in Southeast Asia, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.