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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…

  • Windows Phone 7 Will Overtake iOS By 2015: IDC

    Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 will surpass Research In Motion’s BlackBerry and Apple’s iOS to become the second-ranked smartphone operating system in the world by 2015, according to a new report from research firm IDC. Much of that gain will come courtesy of Microsoft’s recent partnership with Nokia, which will see Windows Phone 7 ported onto…

  • 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…

  • Google Gets Gosling, Founder of Java

    Google has snatched up Java founder James Gosling. “Through some odd twists in the road over the past year, and a tardis encountered along the way, I find myself starting employment at Google today,” Gosling wrote in a March 28 posting on his blog. “I find it odd that this time I’m taking the road…

  • WWDC 2011 Rumor Roundup: iPad 3, OSX Lion, iOS 5

    Apple has announced that its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will be held June 6 through June 10 in San Francisco, at the Moscone West convention center. At the five-day event, Apple plans to unveil "the future of iOS and Mac OS," it said in a March 28 statement. It’s widely expected that Apple will…

  • LG to Launch Google Nexus Honeycomb Tablet

    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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