Year: 2009
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Northrop Grumman Founds Cybersecurity Consortium
Defense contractor Northrop Grumman addressed the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., this week to announce a new private sector-academic cybersecurity consortium that it hopes will accelerate research to address growing threats to government and private-sector infrastructure. The results could put the system integrator at an even bigger advantage within the government security market .… Read more
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Webroot Launches New Web Protection, E-Mail Archiving Products
Webroot released two products to the channel this week that its leaders believe will enable the channel to help customers better satisfy their web and e-mail risk and compliance requirements. The first release was an update to its SaaS Web Security Service which extends the service to outbound threat detection and adds more heuristic techniques… Read more
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Job Declines Slow in November, Says Payroll Firm ADP
When is bad news really good news? These days it’s when the news is less bad than it’s been. For example, in recent months public technology companies announcing their quarterly revenues have celebrated smaller declines, saying they hint at a slowing down of the free fall of this 2009 recession. And now ADP, the payroll… Read more
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Cisco, Tandberg Acquisition Deal Is Do or Die
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) will announce Dec. 3 whether enough Tandberg (OSL:TAA) shareholders have accepted its offer, effectively enabling Cisco to acquire the video conferencing giant. Cisco says as of Dec. 1 it controlled about 84 percent of outstanding shares of Tandberg, but the company had set a 90 percent condition for its offer to acquire… Read more
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Tandberg Unshackles High-End Video Conferencing with T3 Custom Edition
Tandberg (OSL:TAA) is unshackling its high-end telepresence video conferencing system from the confines of the board room. The video conferencing giant, which is in play as a Cisco acquisition, is offering a “custom” version of its T3 telepresence system. The high-end T3 telepresence system normally is packaged with all the accoutrements of a board room,… Read more