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Posted in E-Week on February 7th, 2012 by E-Week
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced price reductions averaging around 12 percent for its Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), effective Feb. 1, 2012. - Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a reduction in price for its Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), effective Feb. 1.
In a Feb. 6 blog post, Amazon Web Service evangelist Jeff Barr announced a new series of price reductions for the S3 service, noting that AWS continues to innovate on it...
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Posted in Network World on February 7th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has sent warning letters to the makers of six mobile apps used for background checks, saying the apps may violate a consumer credit protection law.
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Posted in Network World on February 7th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
A research firm that measures the security effectiveness of browsers noticed something it thought might be fishy with the way Chrome was doing things. Turns out, there may currently be a privacy concern about Google's use of end user IP addresses as part of its Safe Browsing API.
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Posted in Network World on February 7th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
Hacker group Anonymous claimed late Monday that the source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere had been uploaded on The Pirate Bay site.
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Posted in Network World on February 7th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
Symantec today confirmed that the pcAnywhere source code published on the Web Monday by hackers who tried to extort $50,000 from the company was legitimate.
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Posted in Network World on February 7th, 2012 by NetworkWorld
Symantec is in an ongoing fight against hackers in the group Anonymous that last January attempted to extort a payment of around $50,000 from Symantec in exchange for not publicly posting stolen Symantec source code they had stolen for various older Symantec security products dating to 2006.
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Posted in E-Week on February 7th, 2012 by E-Week
Apple's iPad and Google's Android tablets will continue to pace the slate market in 2012, with an assist from Microsoft Windows 8, said Jefferies & Co. - Tablet shipments
could top 125 million units in 2012, led by Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad and
tablets based on Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android and Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT)
Windows 8 operating systems.
So goes the
prognostication from equity analysts at Jefferies amp; Co., which actually
shaved ...
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Posted in E-Week on February 7th, 2012 by E-Week
NEWS ANALYSIS: Research In Motion and the company's ubiquitous BlackBerry devices were the enterprise's favorite product. RIM also had success providing much-needed services. But nowadays, it can't get any love. - Research In
Motion isn't what it used to be. The BlackBerry maker, less than a decade ago,
was able to solidify its position in the enterprise by delivering high-quality
products to corporate users who had yet to fully realize how important mobile
devices could be to their bottom line and corpor...
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Posted in E-Week on February 7th, 2012 by E-Week
Samsung's Galaxy Nexus features a cheaper LTE baseband chip, the better to secure rapid LTE migration throughout the world, according to a new teardown. - A new teardown of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus reveals a device
with a new, cheaper Long-Term Evolution (LTE) baseband chip and a powerful 1.2GHz processor.
“The new chip is estimated at nearly half the cost of the
prior chips $23 price tag,” read the Feb. 6 note from ABI Research
accompanying the t...
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Posted in SANS on February 7th, 2012 by ISC Handler
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