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Google Nexus Honeycomb Tablet Expected from LG
Google has reportedly tapped phone maker LG to build an Android 3.0, or "Honeycomb," for the search engine’s Nexus brand, which has been accorded to two smartphone lines to date. Citing a report from Russian blog Mobile Review, Boy Genius Report said the Nexus tablet would be used as Google’s base for development when it’s…
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Sun.com, MySQL.com Hacked, SQL Injection Attack
The same hackers who exposed all the databases running on MySQL.com attacked Sun.com. The Rumanian hackers, “TinKode” and “Ne0h” compromised two Sun subdomains, including www.reman.sun.com and www.ibb.sun.com, according to a blog post on March 27. Using a SQL injection attack, TinKode was able to obtain table names, column names and email addresses stored in one…
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Cisco to Buy newScale to Boost Cloud Offerings
Cisco Systems is looking to bolster its cloud computing services offering by acquiring privately held newScale, a company that offers software that enables businesses to more efficiently provision resources across their IT environments. Cisco announced the deal March 29. No financial details were disclosed. NewScale, which company officials said has about 2 million users worldwide,…
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CA Woos RSA SecurID Customers After Data Breach
One company’s misery is another’s opportunity. CA Technologies is reaching out to jittery RSA customers with a trade-in deal: SecurID tokens for CA ArcotID secure software licenses. Ever since RSA Security’s executive chairman Art Coviello disclosed on March 17 that attackers had successfully breached the companys networks and stolen information related to the company’s SecurID…
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Cisco Pushes Partners to the Architecture Sale
Cisco Systems’ channel partners are being asked to think beyond selling solutions in much the same way they were asked not so many years ago to think beyond selling point products. The move towards selling what Cisco calls business architectures is meant to create a level of integration across systems that will improve the applications…