Channel Insider Staff

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc acquired online photo-editing site Picnik, as the Web search leader continues with a deal binge includes three acquisitions in about three weeks. Google did not disclose the financial terms of the deal for Picnik, a 5-year-old Seattle-based start-up which said on its website that it has 20 employees. Google […]

GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) – Lockheed Martin Corp, the No. 1 information technology provider to the U.S. government, is working hard to better predict and protect against increasingly sophisticated and stealthy cyber attacks. Lockheed, also the Pentagon’s biggest contractor, is opening a second internal security intelligence center in Denver this week to complement the one it […]

SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp made its most vehement and public attack on Google Inc on Friday, calling its Internet rival’s actions potentially anti-competitive, and urging victims to file complaints to regulators. The broadside comes days after a Microsoft-owned business, along with two other small online companies, complained to European Union regulators about Google’s operations […]

CA is continuing to build up its cloud computing capabilities with the acquisition Feb. 24 of 3Tera. CA officials are looking to roll in 3Tera’s capabilities of building and deploying cloud services with offerings already in CA’s portfolio—including Spectrum Automation Manager and Service Assurance—and technologies gained in acquisitions of Cassatt and NetQoS in 2009 and […]

About two years ago, Salesforce.com introduced its Force.com offering, through which the software-as-a-service giant invited developers to create cloud-based applications that would run on Salesforce.com’s own infrastructure. I must say that when I first heard about Salesforce.com’s efforts to allow development for the cloud through its own Force.com site, I was a bit skeptical about […]

In the life of a Windows machine, nothing is certain but malware sweeps and disk defragmentation. Both chores are deployed regularly in hopes of holding off bit rot, and each has a knack for sucking up resources and generally getting in everyone’s way-despite ongoing vendor efforts to tuck these tasks into the background. I suspect […]

Lenovo’s rack-mount ThinkServer RD210 adds Intel “Nehalem” Xeon processors and management tools to a workhorse data center server to make it an able competitor in the tightly competitive 1U arena. The two-socket ThinkServer RD210, which began shipping in May 2009, joins a crowded field of general-purpose servers that have been revamped to take advantage of […]

Microsoft’s Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 addresses many of the shortcomings of the company’s new always-on remote connectivity solution, DirectAccess, providing sorely needed measures of performance and availability scaling, global management, and backward compatibility to help move DirectAccess beyond mere pilot projects to actual deployment on real networks. While Forefront UAG 2010 has its own […]

(Reuters) – A new type of computer virus is known to have breached almost 75,000 computers in 2,500 organizations around the world, including user accounts of popular social network websites, according Internet security firm NetWitness. The latest virus — known as "Kneber botnet" — gathers login credentials to online financial systems, social networking sites and […]

(Reuters) – Microsoft launched its new mobile phone operating software on Monday, introducing a range of music, gaming and networking features aimed at expanding its appeal beyond its core business customers. The world’s biggest software company, which is trying to wrest back market share from Apple’s iPhone and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry, said new phones […]

(Reuters) – Twenty-four telecom operators have formed an alliance to build an open platform that will deliver applications to all mobile phone users in an effort to compete with Apple’s successful apps store. The move is supported by three of the world’s largest device makers — LG Electronics, Samsung and Sony Ericsson the telecoms industry […]

(Reuters) – Members of President Barack Obama’s Cabinet will announce nearly $1 billion in grants on Friday to increase the use of health information technology, a White House official said, pushing a key component of Obama’s healthcare overhaul and job creation plans. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis […]