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Mobile Cyber-Attacks to Double By End of 2011
Mobile threats have exploded this year, and researchers believe the number of mobile device exploits will double by the end of the year, according to the latest IBM report. The number of known mobile operating system vulnerabilities will increase only incrementally from 2010 to 2011, but the number of exploits based on those flaws is…
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Microsoft and Yahoo: Will They or Won’t They?
Microsoft has no plans to acquire Yahoo, according to a new Bloomberg report. Bloomberg drew its news from two people familiar with the matter, who refuted an earlier report from Reuters that the software giant was seriously considering a bid for the Web-portal company. That Reuters report suggested that Yahoo’s market value stands at $18…
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Thank You, Steve Jobs
It wasn’t John Lennon or Michael Jackson they were remembering on TV this morning. It wasn’t John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan or Princess Diana. No, this time the lost icon was none other than Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple who in his lifetime achieved the kind of status that only a handful of humans…
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IBM, McAfee Beef Up Security Portfolios
This week saw another milestone in the consolidation of the security information and event management (SIEM) market with the acquisition of not one but two major players. On Tuesday, IBM announced that it would buy Waltham, Mass.-based Q1 Labs and McAfee made a similar announcement of its own acquisition of Portsmouth, NH-based Nitro Security. According…
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Google Relies on Partners for Cloud Transformation
Google is doubling down on its channel strategy with its recent unveiling of its Cloud Transformation Program, in which the company is using partners to deliver value-added services built around Google’s cloud portfolio. The program will start out with six select partners participating, but Google intimates that it will expand to more as it gains…
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IT as a Service Becoming Commonplace: Survey
A survey by F5 Networks found that at least 67 percent of enterprises have implemented or are in the process of implementing infrastructure as a service and platform as a service, and that 15 percent of enterprises have implemented or are in the process of implementing chargeback capabilities, setting the stage for full-scale ITaaS across…