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Citigroup officials are saying now that 360,083 credit card accounts were accessed in the data breach this month, far more than the 210,000 they originally estimated. Citigroup released the revised tally in a letter to customers June 15. The release came after Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen said the company was not giving out enough […]

Research In Motion earned $4.9 billion in revenue for the first quarter of fiscal 2012, down 12 percent from the previous quarter. Net income also declined, and RIM executives on a June 16 earnings call acknowledged that the BlackBerry maker is undergoing a turbulent period in its long history. RIM s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, a […]

Google Apps partners CloudLock, Backupify and LTech have collaborated to release the Secure Cloud Bundle, a collection of products to enhance data security, backup and IT administration for organizations that use Google Apps.  By buying the bundle rather than the products separately, customers can save more than 60 percent on the price. The bundle is […]

Toshiba America Information Systems’ telecommunication systems division announced the release of IPedge, an IP business telephone system in a Linux-based single-server solution. The platform accommodates multiple unified communication applications on a single server, including call processing, voicemail and unified messaging, native SIP line and SIP trunk support, mobility, survivability, centralized administration of all sites, and […]

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO and current Oracle President Mark Hurd and Pat Gelsinger, a longtime Intel executive and current EMC COO, reportedly are among the people who have turned down Advanced Micro Devices overtures to fill its vacant CEO slot. According to a Bloomberg report June 15, Hurd, Gelsinger and Greg Summe, manager director of investment […]

Apple s senior vice president of retail, Ron Johnson, is stepping down to take the CEO reins at J.C. Penney. Johnson is widely credited with helping Apple develop a formidable retail presence. Over the course of the past decade, the company has expanded from its initial two stores (in Tyson s Corner, Va., and Glendale, […]

Toshiba’s Digital Products Division (DPD), a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, announced a slew of notebooks aimed at consumers and gaming enthusiasts, including the Satellite P700 series notebooks and the Qosimo X770 and X770 3D notebooks. The Qosmio X770 Series starts at $1,199.99 and will be available later this month at major retailers, e-tailers […]

I’ve been playing with a loaner version of the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook for a week and the 3.3-pound notebook based on Google’s Chrome operating system is everything I expected it to be. That is, a more polished version of the Chrome OS version running on the Cr-48 experimental computer I tested last December packed […]

Network storage provider NetApp on June 14 upgraded its OnCommand storage management software, which now includes the capability to automate and analyze shared storage infrastructures. NetApp, like its archrival EMC, comes at cloud management from what it considers the center of the data center universe: storage. Conversely, Cisco Systems comes at cloud-type systems from a […]

When Cisco Systems bought telepresence rival Tandberg last year for $3.3 billion, analysts said Cisco would be able to leverage Tandberg’s presence in the midmarket space to expand its video-conferencing offerings into that area. It was a market Cisco needed to access to continue growing its visual-communications business, the analysts said. That push down the […]

VMware made a move into the business-management software as a service sector June 13 by acquiring Israel-based Digital Fuel. Terms of the transaction were not released by either company, but Globes, an Israeli business Website that has covered the burgeoning IT scene in that country for a long while, reported that the deal cost VMware […]

Samsung has found and interesting way to gain traction for its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computers: get them on airplanes as media entertainment devices. Samsung said June 13 it partnered with American Airlines to offer 6,000 Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets for premium class, in-flight entertainment on select flights later this year. The tablets will replace […]