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Feds Stop Counterfeit Cisco Networking Hardware Ring
A 49-year-old man has become the latest person brought down by a federal investigation targeting people trafficking in counterfeit Cisco network hardware. “Ehab Ashoor, 49 … [of] Sugarland, Texas, was sentenced in the Southern District of Texas to 51 months in prison and ordered to pay $119,400 in restitution to Cisco Systems, the Department of…
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IBM, Jamie Oliver Target Same Mission, Childhood Obesity
IBM is turning its massive computational and data analysis capabilities to the health care field. IBM officials on May 6 announced a project at their Almaden Research facilities to take public health data that’s already been collected to help government agencies, businesses and health care providers develop strategies to better take on a host of…
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Cisco Rival Aruba Networks Acquires Outdoor Mesh Network Supplier Azalea
Distributed enterprise networking technology vendor Aruba Networks (NASDAQ: ARUN) will acquire Azalea Networks, a supplier of outdoor mesh networks. The stock deal is worth about $27 million, plus up to an additional $13.5 million in cash over two years. Azalea offers mesh products for outdoor industrial applications in the oil and gas, logistics, manufacturing, mining, petrochemical,…
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IT Jobs on Upswing, But IT Pros Should Look Out Ahead
IT jobs grew by 8,800 in April, according to figures released by the U.S. Department of Labor in April, representing the largest net monthly job gain for IT since the Wall Street financial crisis began. But hang on a minute before you draw that big sigh of relief. While IT employment analysis firm Foot Partners…
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CDC Software Cloud Goes Mobile via Servicepower Partnership
Enterprise application software vendor CDC Software has tapped SaaS-based field service and management provider Servicepower for its new offering, and inked a dual OEM agreement that would provide an expanded mobile and field service market opportunity into both customer bases. As part of the deal, CDC will embed Servicepower’s SaaS solution into its existing eCommerce…
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Microsoft .NET Prevails over Google, Ruby on Rails
According to a recent Evans Data survey, Microsoft’s .NET was rated the best overall framework by software developers, over competing frameworks from Google and others. In Evans Data’s recently released Users’ Choice Survey on Frameworks, the market research company asked developers to rank 10 different attributes of the frameworks they have used. Microsoft’s .NET came…