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May 13, 2008
Hewlett-Packard said this morning that it has signed a deal to acquire IT outsourcer Electronic Data Systems for $13.9 billion, or $25.00 per share; VMware is releasing two bundles of management and automation products designed to streamline disaster recovery and curb virtual server sprawl. (5:43)
May 12, 2008
Wireless mesh standard gets boost from OLPC, open source; RIM debuts BlackBerry Bold. (6:09)
May 09, 2008
In the wake of collapsed talks with Yahoo, Microsoft reportedly is sniffing around social-networking site Facebook as a possible acquisition target; Google has begun scanning the streets of Paris, gathering data for its Street View service, which adds street-level photography to the satellite views offered by Google Maps. (5:10)
May 08, 2008
Sprint and Clearwire announced that they are combining their WiMAX businesses to create a new $14.5 billion mobile broadband company; A recent survey of Indian high-tech graduates revealed that the vast majority would rather remain in India. (7:24)
May 07, 2008
Sun and OpenSolaris.org on Monday released the first publicly available version of the OpenSolaris operating system since work on the project began in 2005; Venture capital investment in network companies hit another low during the first quarter, with the total number of investments dropping to its lowest point since the third quarter of 2004. (8:02)
May 06, 2008
Qwest Communications announced yesterday that it has signed a five-year deal with Verizon Wireless to market and sell Verizon’s wireless services and handsets beginning this summer; Consumer Reports’ latest tech-support survey of its subscribers shows that Apple has the best help-desk support for both laptop and desktop systems. (5:52)
May 05, 2008
Interop spins virtualization, SOA and software-as-a-service as a way to save; Rackspace launches cloud storage service to compete with Amazon. (5:32)
May 02, 2008
Security researchers have discovered a complex spamming scheme that hijacks users' PCs in order to attempt to send junk mail via university and military systems; Google and IBM are testing a cloud computing infrastructure that could become an important avenue for them to deliver software and services to consumer and business users. (5:02)
May 01, 2008
First there was the Nexus 7000 for the data center...then the ASR 1000 for the router edge; In what could be a preview of troubling first-quarter results for Sprint Nextel, electronics retail giant RadioShack said this week that sluggish growth in its wireless platform sales were primarily caused by a decrease in Sprint postpaid wireless sales. (5:20)
April 30, 2008
Microsoft to extend its System Center software to handle cross platform management duties; Most likely destination for offshored IT jobs is still India. (7:37)
April 29, 2008
nSolutions, a company that was spun out of Bell Labs Research in 2001, today is launching its line of Network Ontology and Virtualization Appliance or NOVA devices at Interop Las Vegas; The Trusted Computing Group yesterday announced at Interop Las Vegas a protocol that coordinates network security devices so they can respond to threatening behavior by devices that are connected already. (6:24)
April 28, 2008
Can the U.S. tech industry continue to defy the overall economic downturn? Plus, an investment firm speculates that Cisco is looking to acquire a femtocell company. (6:15)
April 25, 2008
A flood of SQL injection attacks on Microsoft IIS servers are leaving Web pages with malicious iFrames in them; Spammers are creating accounts on Google's Blogger for spam purporse, proving CAPTCHA technology is no longer effective in stopping bogus registrations. (7:38)
April 24, 2008
Microsoft gave its first hint that it may abandon its $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, as it approaches the deadline for a threatened proxy battle to oust Yahoo's board; IBM has designed a new type of rack-mount server specifically for companies running heavily trafficked "Web 2.0" sites such as Facebook and MySpace, the company announced Wednesday. (5:05)
April 23, 2008
Microsoft sees the ultra-low cost PC market as a significant opportunity and plans to pursue it with vigor; Web-based lending exchange LendingTree yesterday disclosed that it believes several former employees illicitly helped a handful of mortgage lenders gain access to customer data. (6:57)
April 22, 2008
British company Trampoline Systems has released a new program it hopes will become the Facebook for the enterprise; Researchers are touting an innovative cryptography method they've developed called "functional encryption." (5:57)
April 21, 2008
Telecom giant AT&T plans to lay off 1.5 percent of its employees, primarily in management, in an effort to streamline its operations, the company announced Friday; Wireless LAN vendors are unveiling at Interop Las Vegas next week a slew of draft 2 IEEE 802.11n access points, controllers and management features aimed at spurring enterprise adoption of the technology. (5:49)
April 18, 2008
Chinese hackers appear to be readying for an attack on the West scheduled for April 19 and Chinese blogs are detailing a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft's Works productivity suite. (7:24)
April 17, 2008
The sky is falling on the number of global IP addresses, and IPv6 is the solution, executives from major technology companies said Wednesday; Companies should think twice about skipping Windows Vista and should get started sooner rather than later on updating their client desktops to the latest Microsoft operating system. (6:07)
April 16, 2008
Check Point Software is introducing a set of security appliances for midsize businesses and branch offices of larger businesses bent on reducing the clutter of devices and the cost and hassle of dealing with multiple vendors; Cisco says it will have its Microsoft-compatible NAC gear ready in about a month. (6:23)
April 15, 2008
Cisco is opening up two pieces of its branch-office gear to application developers; Based on interviews with software-as-a-service providers, research firm Gartner has determined that 90% will have at least some open source components in their technology-infrastructure stacks by 2010. (5:46)
April 14, 2008
Extreme Networks airs Gigabit Ethernet edge switch, upgrades 10G core switch; Building a 5-ton mechanical calculator... from 19th-century plans. (5:50)
April 11, 2008
Oracle will release a slew of patches for its products next week, including two to fix nasty database flaws; CA filed additional evidence in its $200 million lawsuit against Rocket Software. (6:30)
April 10, 2008
Oxford professor argues in new book that shift from PCs to appliances, appalling cybersecurity will slow innovation; Basic social engineering and browser exploits expose electric production and distribution network; Yahoo will test Google's AdSense for Search service. (5:16)
April 09, 2008
Cisco this week announced plans to fully acquire a switch start-up it funded and also unveiled the newest member of its data center switching line, developed by Cisco and that start-up; Microsoft issued a critical patch for two vulnerabilities in the core graphics subsystem of Windows, one of eight fixes released Tuesday as part of its monthly security updates. (5:40)
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