Archive for the ‘E-Week’ Category

Oracle Fraud Claim vs. HP in Itanium Case Rejected by Judge

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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 ...

Cisco Addresses BYOD, Network Traffic With Aironet 3600 Series AP

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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...

Amazon Kindle Fire Sales May Reach 6M: Rohan

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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...

Yorktel Announces Cloud Video Communications Services

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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...

IT Growth Outlook Hits Record High Led by Surge in Expected Investments: CDW

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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...

Apple, Foxconn and the Human Cost of Electronics Manufacturing in China

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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...

RIM’s Struggles: 10 Reasons the Enterprise Is Backing Away From BlackBerry

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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 ...

Google Spent Nearly $2B on 79 Acquisitions in 2011

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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...

Android.Counterclank an Aggressive Mobile Ad Network, Not Malware: Lookout

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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...

Google, Microsoft Team Up to Fight Phishing, Spoofed Emails With DMARC

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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...