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Revamped Symantec security client due next year

Symantec's Hamlet client security software integrates technology from recent acquisitions.

Verisign to buy SSL vendor for $125 million

VeriSign's purchase of SSL certificate provider GeoTrust will give it access to the SMB market.

Microsoft puts search functions as top mission

Canadian IPv6 start-up attracts VC funding

* Montreal start-up Hexago gets $6 million in first round venture capital funding

Carriers go on the defensive

Some deny handing over call records to the NSA.

Open source acquisitions – It’s all about the stack

* Why JBoss is worth over $350 million to Red Hat - the stack

Notebook sales drive HP net income to $1.5 billion

HP's second-quarter resuls beat analysts' forecasts.

Gates anoints SharePoint, hammers IBM, and outlines storage, workflow

FBI special agent recounts outsourcing horror story

Also warns of the dangers of mobile computing security lapses.

Nortel updates rebound progress