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Facebook Launches Open Compute Project
Facebook April 7 launched its Open Compute Project, an unprecedented play to open source the specifications it employs for its hardware and data center to efficiently power a social network comprising 600 million-plus people. For the Open Compute Project, Facebook is publishing specs and mechanical designs used to construct its motherboards, power supply, server chassis,…
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Cisco CEO Chambers Says Tough Decisions Ahead
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, April 7 (Reuters) – Cisco Inc (NASDAQ:CSCO) Chief Executive John Chambers, days after admitting that the company he has led for 16 years had lost its way, warned of competitive pressures, depressed public sector spending and "tough decisions" that lay ahead. Chambers told analysts and investors at a Wells Fargo technology conference…
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Novell Announces Mono Development Tool for Android
Novell has announced the availability of Mono for Android, the first solution for developing Microsoft .NET applications for the Android platform using Microsoft’s Visual Studio tool set. With the addition of Mono for Android to its existing Mono development tools, Novell is enabling Microsoft .NET and C# developers using Visual Studio and other environments to…
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Banks Don’t Protect SMBs From Fraud: Report
Small and midsized businesses are more susceptible to online-banking fraud, compared with larger businesses and enterprises, according to a new security report from the Ponemon Institute. What’s worse is that many financial institutions are not doing enough to protect smaller businesses from cyber-crooks. Over half, or 56 percent, of the surveyed companies reported experiencing some…
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CA Technologies Buys Govt IT Consultant Base Tech
Software giant CA Technologies has acquired government IT consulting firm Base Technologies in a move to add consulting expertise to its virtualization, mainframe and cloud-computing offerings for government agencies and health care providers. A major player in virtualization and IT management, CA announced the agreement on April 6. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.…
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HP Revamps Information Management Offerings
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Hewlett-Packard updated both its products/service package and its marketing message April 5 in the category of information-management software and services. Actually, there is more news at this time in the way the company is presenting its software and services to potential buyers than the launch of any new products themselves. But…