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(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp said on Monday that passwords belonging to some users of its Hotmail email service were exposed on an Internet site, but had since been taken down. The company did not say how many users were affected, but some reports suggested that passwords to more than 10,000 accounts were exposed. "We are […]

(Reuters) – U.S. network equipment maker Brocade Communications Systems Inc. has put itself up for sale, the Wall Street Journal said on Monday, triggering a 14 percent jump in the company’s shares. The paper, citing people familiar with the matter, said Oracle Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co were potential bidders for the company, but a deal […]

(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp does not expect to make acquisitions to help the company challenge Google Inc’s dominance in the Internet search market, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told Reuters on Monday. "No, I wouldn’t expect it," he said when asked whether acquisitions would be part of the strategy. Microsoft recently agreed to a search partnership […]

Talk of health care reform is inescapable as the Obama administration presses its case for initiating a massive overhaul of the medical insurance and patient care delivery system that accounts for one-seventh of the U.S. economy. Health care is also a major component of the Obama economic recovery plan, through which as much as $2 […]

At least since Cisco’s ‘Californication’, when the network giant announced it was entering the data center server market, HP has been busy shoring up its networking portfolio, culminating in this week’s announcement that its data center and network businesses will be closely tied together at some point in the near future. In addition to making […]

(Reuters) – IBM is introducing an inexpensive Web-based corporate email service that will compete with Google Inc’s Google Apps, which has recently suffered several high-profile outages. International Business Machines Corp will likely try to capitalize on the damage that those outages have caused to Google Apps over the past year. Last month millions of business […]

For months Cisco Systems has promoted rebates and sales incentives for its core infrastructure products to spur resellers and integrators to sell more switches and routers. Some resellers have gone out and done that only to discover that product was unavailable. Several solution providers have contacted Channel Insider about the Cisco inventory problem. They say […]

(Reuters) – Cisco has agreed to buy Norwegian videoconferencing company Tandberg for $3 billion, the latest in a series of bets taken on using video to drive demand for its core data transmission gear. The world’s dominant maker of Web routers and switches said buying Tandberg would strengthen its position in a $34 billion market […]

HP has announced new additions to its SMB-focused HP Total Care portfolio. The new solutions include security, storage and networking offerings, a new notebooks, and online marketing solutions. HP also announced related services and financing offers for the U.S. "AMI has surveyed thousands of SMBs in over a dozen countries over the last four quarters, […]

While the last several years has seen a great focus on Green IT, primarily as a way of controlling costs, much of the focus has been on the data center. But there are also cost savings opportunities outside the data center which have not been as extensively explored, And thats where Belkin hopes its new […]

Microsoft Corp paid its chief executive Steve Ballmer 5.5 percent less for the last fiscal year as the world’s biggest software company suffered its first ever drop in annual sales. Ballmer, CEO since 2000, earned a total of $1,276,627 for fiscal year 2009, which ended June 30, according to a filing with securities regulators on […]

(Reuters) – Google Inc expects to buy one small company a month as it rekindles its acquisition engine and moves beyond the worst phase of the global recession, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in an interview on Wednesday. The Web search giant has historically maintained a steady pace of acquiring small, privately held companies, but […]