Ikea is launching a new range of high-tech
furniture that will wirelessly charge your
smartphones and tablets and other smart
devices compatible with the technology.
Ikea, the Swedish furniture giant, unveiled a
new line of home smart furniture that is ca-
pable of charging smart devices wirelessly.
The new range includes desks, tables and
lamps capable of charging smart phones
and tablets. The wireless charging pads
are integrated directly into the furniture. The
company will also sell stand-alone charging
pads that people can tack on to existing fur-
niture.
Many believe wireless charging by furniture
or other pads is a welcomed innovative so-
lution, as batteries tend to run out quickly.
Ikea plans to sell standalone charging pads
for the new home furnishings with prices
starting at €30. Furniture with built-in wire-
less charging device will be €20 more than
furniture without the charging devices.
By 2018, 40% of large enterprises will have
formal plans to address aggressive cyber-
security business disruption attacks, up
from 0% in 2015, according to Gartner, Inc.
Business disruption attacks require new
priority from chief information security offi-
cers (CISOs) and business continuity man-
agement (BCM) leaders, since aggressive
attacks can cause prolonged disruption to
internal and external business operations.
Gartner defines aggressive business disrup-
tion attacks as targeted attacks that reach
deeply into internal digital business op-
erations with the express purpose of wide-
spread business damage. Servers may be
taken down completely, data may be wiped
and digital intellectual property may be re-
leased on the Internet by attackers.
By 2018, 40% of large enter-
prises will have formal plans
to address
cyberattacks
Furniture
to charge devices wirelessly
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55% of UAE IT leaders
endured DDoS attacks
Some 55% of UAE-based ICT de-
cision-makers have encountered
a distributed denial-of-service
(DDoS) attack, according to a re-
port launched by F5 Networks.
The survey found that 27% of
the polled respondents claimed
that recovery from a DDoS attack
took a whole day, 46% said it took
a few days, 13% a week, 9% a
few weeks and 4% a month.
According to the study, 13% put
the estimated cost of recovery as
high as $30 million and 31% put
the figure at $20-30 million.
When asked what the “most
disastrous” impact of a DDoS
attack would be, 47% of re-
spondents cited the impact on
customers. 19% said it would be
reputation damage and 14% be-
lieved it would be revenue loss.
