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Posted in E-Week on January 31st, 2012 by E-Week
A California judge dismissed claims by Oracle that HP fraudulently concealed it was planning to hire Leo Apotheker as CEO while negotiating a settlement over Mark Hurd. - Oracle
suffered a setback in its struggle with Hewlett-Packard over Intels Itanium platform
when a judge in California threw out its claim that HP fraudulently kept
information away from Oracle that would have kept the software giant from
signing a deal to settle a legal dispute between the two ...
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Posted in E-Week on January 31st, 2012 by E-Week
Ciscos new wireless access point, introduced at the Cisco Live show, offers a fourth antenna, 30 percent faster performance and greater WiFi-monitoring capabilities. -
Cisco Networks
is rolling out a new wireless access point designed to address the growing
demand for fast network performance and consistent connectivity that is being
fueled by the rapid growth of mobile devices and mobile network traffic.
At the Cisco
Live conference in London Jan. 31, comp...
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Posted in E-Week on January 31st, 2012 by E-Week
Amazon's Kindle Fire could sell 6 million units for the fourth quarter, as the company prepares to announce fourth-quarter earnings Jan. 31. - Amazon
(NASDAQ:AMZN) isn't a company prone to revealing unit sales for its Kindle line of
e-readers and tablets, providing a constant source of consternation for
analysts trying to model the e-commerce giant's financial results.
That hasn't
stopped the analysts from prognosticating based on wor...
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Posted in E-Week on January 31st, 2012 by E-Week
The solution allows new and existing video conferencing users to gain the ability to communicate via video. - Video managed services provider Yorktel introduced the Video Cloud Connect Suite, including Video Cloud Connect and Video Cloud Connect+ cloud-based video conferencing services. Combining Yorktel's design and video expertise, the Video Cloud Connect offerings integrate video hardware and software, n...
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Posted in E-Week on January 31st, 2012 by E-Week
Overall anticipated demand for hardware and software investments reached a record high in both public and private sectors. - While
overall anticipated IT spending has grown two percentage points to reach 42
percent, most sectors saw significant increases in spending optimism, according
to the latest CDW IT Monitor. Growing optimism and greater anticipation of
increased IT investments among IT decision-makers propelled...
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Posted in E-Week on January 31st, 2012 by E-Week
NEWS ANALYSIS: Apple's contract manufacturing at Foxconn is getting all of the attention, but the problem is far wider. If you want to find one source of the problem, look in the mirror. - The
recent uproar about the conditions in
Chinese factories where Apple's iPhones, iPads and iPods are manufactured
is getting a lot of attention, partly because of an article in the New York
Times.
A
great deal more attention is likely due to the lead story that appeared on CBS
Sunday Mornin...
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Posted in E-Week on January 31st, 2012 by E-Week
NEWS ANALYSIS: The enterprise is starting to turn its back on Research In Motion and its BlackBerry smartphones. And there isn't much the mobile company can do about it. - Research
In Motion has been going through an exceedingly difficult time over the last
several months. Its mobile market share is dwindling; its former co-CEOs Mike
Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie nearly ran the company into the ground; and it
brought in a new CEO to help turn things around. All the ...
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Posted in E-Week on January 31st, 2012 by E-Week
Google spent over $1.9 billion in 2011 to acquire 79 companies, including ITA Software, Admeld and Zagat. The deals help Google compete versus Facebook, Microsoft and other rivals. - Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) shelled out $1.97
billion in cash and stock for a record 79 acquisitions in 2011, the biggest of
which was the company's $676 million purchase of ITA Software.
The search engine leader, which disclosed the numbers in its 10-K filing with the Securities
and Exchange Commissio...
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Posted in E-Week on January 31st, 2012 by E-Week
Lookout Mobile Security takes Symantec to task for calling Counterclank malware, arguing that it's just an aggressive ad network. Symantec said users still need to be warned about adware. - Despite
Symantec's warning to the contrary, Android.Counterclank is not malware,
according to researchers at Lookout Mobile Security.
Android.Counterclank
is a botlike threat that can receive commands from remote servers to carry out
certain actions, as well as steal information from infected d...
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Posted in E-Week on January 31st, 2012 by E-Week
Fifteen companies including PayPal, Google, Microsoft and Facebook are banding together to fight domain-based phishing and other email scams with the new DMARC specification. - Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and
other major email providers are committed to stomping out phishing attacks and
other email-based Web scams.
Major brands, such as Bank
of America and Facebook, joined large email providers to announce Jan. 30 the
new Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting an...
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