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  • Report: Attack on Google Hit Password System

    (Reuters) – A December cyberattack on Google Inc computers hit the company’s password system that millions of people worldwide use to access almost all of the company’s Web services, The New York Times said, citing a person with direct knowledge of the investigation. The closely-guarded program is considered a crown jewel at Google, enabling users…

  • Cisco: Iceland Volcano Boosts Video Conferencing

    OSLO/LONDON (Reuters) – The videoconferencing industry is getting a boost in demand from the disruption to business travel across Europe caused by a volcano in Iceland, Cisco Systems said. (Reuters) – The videoconferencing industry is getting a boost in demand from the disruption to business travel across Europe caused by a volcano in Iceland, Cisco…

  • Facebook? Twitter? Microsoft Employees Use Social Media the Most

    (Reuters) – Twitter and Facebook are the bane of many bosses, but a new survey has found that employees at Microsoft Corp are the most social media-savvy in the world. The survey, the first by sales and marketing contact database NetProspex, ranked the top 50 companies based on their social network membership, frequency of social…

  • Symantec: Fake Security Software Still Top Problem

    (Reuters) – Fake security software was the No. 1 cybersecurity woe afflicting computer users in 2009, and Apple users lost some of their immunity to cybercrime as they stored more data online instead of on hard drives, according to the cybersecurity firm Symantec. In a report released on Tuesday, Symantec noted that Brazil had risen…

  • Top 5 Mobile Enterprise Influencers

    Mobile maturity in the enterprise has finally arrived, and plenty of IT solution providers have recognized that offering  a mobile services practice – integrating mobile devices to the IT infrastructure — can bring in an additional stream of services revenue.  Channel Insider takes a look at some of the vendors who are shaping the mobile…

  • Hitachi Launches Unified Computing System

    Hitachi Data Systems has jumped aboard the unified computing system bandwagon currently occupied by Hewlett-Packard, Dell/Brocade and Cisco Systems’ UCS partnership with EMC and VMware. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based subsidiary of Japan’s Hitachi Ltd. announced April 19 that it is launching its own open-standards-based, unified computing platform aimed at cloud computing deployments for ISPs and…

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