Archive for the ‘E-Week’ Category

Microsoft Cites Chinese Factory Violations, but Questions Remain

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Microsoft's investigation into conditions at China's KYE factory turned up violations, according to the company, but one NGO finds Microsofts statements too vague. - Microsoft claims it investigated allegations of massive labor violations at a Chinese factory building its products, and took steps to fix conditions there. But the director of the National Labor Committee, the non-governmental organization (NGO) that originally highlighted those factory conditi...

Cisco Eyes Skype Acquisition: Reports

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Cisco reportedly is considering buying Skype before the VOIP and video conferencing vendor enters into its planned IPO later this year. It would continue Ciscos push into video. - Skype officials are in planning stages for their expected IPO, which they announced Aug. 9. But reports are circulating that Cisco Systems may derail those plans by buying the VOIP vendor. IT blog TechCrunch reported that according to “one of our more reliable sources,” Cisco officials have mad...

FalconStor Demos New Accelerator, Data Protection for VMware View

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In the VMware Lab at VMworld, FalconStor also will be demonstrating the FalconStor Network Storage Server replication package for VMware. - SAN FRANCISCO Open standards storage maker FalconStor, which provides the array software for a number of major systems makers, Aug. 30 demonstrated a new storage area network accelerator and a data protection package at VMworld 2010 specifically for VMware's View control suite. The demonstrat...

Leostream Upgrades Its VDI Connection Broker

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Connection Broker 7.0 is a management layer that helps administrators to sort out resources and add policies for computing resources via a hosted virtual desktop using any of the major hypervisors. - SAN FRANCISCO -- News items started flowing out of VMworld 2010 long before the press room was to open at 2 o'clock Aug. 30. One of the first was from desktop virtualization management provider Leostream, which introduced a new version of its Connection Broker. Leostream claims to provide the ...

CA to Acquire Arcot Systems for Fraud Prevention

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CA Technologies has agreed to pay $200 million to add Arcot Systems' anti-fraud and authentication technologies to its identity and access management portfolio. - CA Technologies has agreed to acquire Arcot Systems for its authentication and anti-fraud technology. The acquisition comes with a price tag of $200 million. Founded in 1997, Arcot develops software-based digital signature and identity tools to help secure online transactions. Delivered via the c...

Microsoft’s Windows Live Sync Is Now Live Mesh, with More Storage

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Microsoft renames Windows Live Sync, its cloud-syncing service, Windows Live Mesh. The service's cloud storage has been expanded from 2GB to 5GB. - Microsoft has decided that Windows Live Sync, its cloud-syncing service, will receive a name change actually, make that a name reversion to Windows Live Mesh. In addition, the service will now offer 5GB of free cloud-storage space, up from 2GB, and the ability to sync hidden files. The company ...

Intel to Buy Infineon Mobile Chip Business for $1.4 Billion

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Intel is making a push into the Internet-connected mobile device space with its purchase of Infineon's wireless chip business, whose customers include Apple, Nokia and Samsung. - After months of rumors and speculation, Intel is buying Infineon Technologies' wireless chip unit, its latest move to expand beyond its traditional server and PC processor business. The Aug. 30 announcement by Intel signals the chip giant's aggressive push into the exploding Internet-connected m...

Google Real-time Search Is Now Revamped, Instant Search Points to Future

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Google's new real-time search Web page and the instant search results capabilities spotted in the wild point to the company's vision for the future of search: real-time everywhere. - Two Google news items from last week painted a clear picture of where Google is in real-time search and where it is going in the future. The company revamped its real-time search capabilities and is testing instant search capabilities that update on the fly. Announced Aug. 26, the real-time se...

Dell Mulls Latest Obstacle to 3PAR: HP’s $2B

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Dell has a couple of days to make the next move in the rapidly escalating bidding war for the small scale-out storage maker. - Dell – was busy considering its options Aug. 30 in its prolonged bidding war with Hewlett-Packard over utility storage maker 3PAR. HP on Aug. 27 increased its offer to just under $2 billion, and 3PAR's board later that evening accepted it. Thus, Dell, which apparently has more t...

AVG Lists Most Dangerous Countries for Web Surfers

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New research from AVG Technologies ranks the countries where Web surfers come under attack the most. Topping the list are places such as Turkey and Russia. But the countries with the least attacks may surprise you. - A snapshot of the threat landscape by AVG Technologies named Turkey the most dangerous place to surf the Web. AVGs analysis is based on an examination of attacks during the last week of July. According to the company, AVG software detected attacks against one in 10 customers browsing the Web in...