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Absolute Acquires Asset Management Company
Absolute Software yesterday announced the $12.1 million acquisition of Pole Position Software, owner of LANrev, in a deal that will help expand Absolute further into asset management. Absolute is best known for its Computrace software suite, which enables enterprises to track the location of mobile assets with its geotechnology feature and freeze device data in…
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Busted: Microsoft’s Anti-Piracy Blitz
Claiming a more than 100 percent increase in reports from people who unknowingly purchased counterfeit software, Microsoft Corp. (www.microsoft.com) has announced Consumer Action Day, a simultaneous launch of education initiatives and enforcement actions in more than 70 countries to “help protect consumers and increase awareness of the risks of counterfeit software.” The company reports more…
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Interwork Adds File Sharing and Offsite Backup to Security as a Service Suite
Ctera Networks (www.ctera.com) has signed on with value-added distributor Interwork Technologies (www.interwork.com) to launch a storage and data protection offering to its more than 4,000 resellers. Called S-Sphere, the all-in-one SMB solution for file sharing and offsite backup is delivered as part of a security as a service (SaaS) suite that features products from five…
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Cisco Gains More Than 90% of Tandberg Shares
The Cisco/Tandberg deal will be completed after all, for the raised price of about $3.4 billion. Cisco announced on Dec. 4 that it now controls 91.1 percent of shares and voting rights of Tandberg, meeting the networking giant’s set requirement of 90 percent of shares it needed to acquire the company. Cisco’s acquisition means that…
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Bing Goes Down for 45 Minutes
Microsoft’s Bing search engine went down Thursday evening for 30 to 45 minutes for reasons still unknown. Service was around 11:45 p.m. Pacific time. When users went to use the Bing search site or toolbar embedded in their browser, they only received an error message. The incident sparked a surge in Twitter activity by users…
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2010 Sweeping Changes Coming for IT
2010 Sweeping Changes Coming for IT With a modest recovery for IT spending predicted for 2010, IDC is also looking for a ‘fundamental’ industry transformation. Channel Insider takes a closer look at some of the changes the channel can look forward to next year. 2010: Tipping Points "In last year’s predictions, we talked about how…
