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Fear of cyber-threats and ongoing demand for digital information boosted Symantec’s second-quarter performance as enterprises and consumers continued to buy its security and backup products, the company said. The company reported fiscal second-quarter revenue of $1.68 billion, a 14 percent increase from last year’s revenue of $1.48 billion. Symantec’s net income was $182 million, or […]

LSI, which specializes in networking and storage software and semiconductors, is planning to buy SandForce, which makes flash storage processors for enterprise and client flash solutions and solid-state drives (SSDs). Under the agreement announced Oct. 26, LSI will pay about $322 million, and will assume about $48 million of unvested stock options and restricted shares held by […]

The IT Employee Confidence Index, a measure of overall confidence among U.S. technology workers, showed a decline from 56.2 to 47.3 in the third quarter of 2011, according to a recent survey commissioned by Technisource. Surprisingly, the survey of 3,813 U.S. adults among which 257 are employed in IT, marks the lowest confidence level among […]

Microsoft is offering a service update for Microsoft Dynamics CRM with some new social-networking and cloud features, in a bid to keep the customer relationship management platform muscular in the face of significant competition from Salesforce and other companies. By bringing together new social-collaboration capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics CRM with familiar collaboration technologies such as […]

Virginia Rometty, IBM’s senior vice president and global sales leader, is slated to become the company’s next CEO and president, succeeding longtime leader Samuel Palmisano, who is retiring at the end of the year. As the new CEO, Rometty not only takes over one of the world’s largest and most important tech companies, but she […]

IBM and Apple, both hugely successful companies that are undergoing a change in top leadership, are a study in contrasts when looking at their CEOs and how they re replacing them, according to analysts. Apple for more than a decade was led by the charismatic Steve Jobs, who co-founded the company in the 1970s, was […]

Virginia “Ginni” Rometty taking the helm of IBM is no surprise. IBM held out that there were three to four front runners for the position, but Rometty was the clear leader. In fact, at IBM’s recent THINK Forum in New York, Sam Palmisano, IBM’s outgoing president and CEO, practically thrust Rometty on the scene as […]

Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Steve Jobs offers a glimpse into the top-secret design lab for Apple products, in the process revealing a good deal about the working relationship between the former Apple CEO, who died earlier this month, and his chief designer, Jonathan Ive. Apple heavily restricts access to that lab, which according to […]

The majority of small business owners believe Internet security is critical to their success and that their companies are safe from ever increasing cyber security threats even as many fail to take fundamental precautions, according to a survey of U.S. small businesses sponsored by Symantec and the National Cyber Security Alliance and conducted by Zogby […]

IBM has announced new software to deliver "big data" analytics to users on a variety of devices and platforms. At its Information on Demand (IoD) 2011 conference in Las Vegas on Oct. 24, IBM unveiled new offerings that span a wide variety of big data and business analytics technologies across multiple platforms from mobile devices […]

Google’s complete (NASDAQ:GOOG) implementation of its Google Apps cloud collaboration software for Los Angeles has been delayed due to additional security requirements from the city’s police department. When Google scored the Los Angeles contract to provide its Gmail and other applications for Los Angeles’ 30,000 municipal employees in December 2009, it marked a watershed win. […]

Hewlett-Packard is creating a suite of services aimed at helping enterprises extend their businesses applications to employees and customers who are using mobile devices. The HP Mobile Applications Services, announced Oct. 24, are designed to enable workers and consumers to access applications, data and businesses processes through any device and from any location. HP, like […]