Data Center

Ten signs from companies that point to an upturn

Cisco buying Web security firm ScanSafe for $183 million

Acquisition adds software-as-a-service Web security to Cisco portfolio

Dassault buys IBM’s PLM software distribution activities

The French company will be able to simplify support, it says

Global Forum sees information technology driving recovery and boosting democracy

Smart-grid money could assist broadband

Smart-grid projects could fill in holes in broadband deployment, an analyst says

Judge says TD Ameritrade’s proposed security fixes not enough

Court rejects company's proposed class-action settlement for 2007 data breach

SAS CEO unfazed by IBM analytics challenge

Goodnight says he has seen "nothing really new" competitively since Big Blue bought analytics vendor SPSS

Harvard Medical School develops swine flu iPhone app

The school's publications group plans to build other mobile apps as well

New spam: Your bank has failed, download this Trojan

Spam lures victims to a phony FDIC site to check if they are insured, tries to capture banking passwords

Broadband agencies hear complaints from all sides

Senators voiced competing priorities at a hearing on broadband stimulus funds