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HP Sees Tech Rebound in 2010
(Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co predicted that overall IT spending would bounce back next year, but set a fiscal 2010 revenue forecast that came in just below Wall Street’s expectations. The IT industry will return to growth in 2010, and HP should outpace that growth, Chief Executive Mark Hurd told an audience at the company’s yearly…
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Avaya Touts New SME Flagship IP Office Release
Avaya has announced the launch of the new version of Avaya IP Office, the company’s flagship communications solution for small and medium-sized enterprises. The new version — Avaya IP Office Release 5 — simplifies unified communications and customer service for SMEs, while delivering a range of new capabilities improving the scalability, resiliency and productivity of…
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Xceedium Moves to Channel-Only Sales Model
The leadership at Xceedium is pinning its hopes on security channel providers seeking to fill in gaps within their access control portfolios with a move this week to a channel-only distribution model. The Jersey City, N.J.-based security niche player primarily focuses on offering a client-based product that allows organizations to track, audit and control user…
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Gmail Service Outage Disrupts Users
Google sent an alert out through various social networking and conventional communications channel this morning that its e-mail service, Gmail, was unavailable to a “small subset of users” this morning and that it was working to correct the problem. Since the alert went out, Twitter and other social media channels have been buzzing about the…
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Clampi Trojan Renews Assault on Bank Accounts
Sporadic reports are surfacing that the authentication credential stealing Trojan Clampi is regaining momentum and poised to begin a new round of stealthily siphoning cash from the bank accounts belonging to compromised users. Clampi—also known as Ligats, Ilomo and Rscan—was first discovered in January 2008. The Trojan targets machines running nearly all versions of Windows…
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Seagate Releases Self-Encrypting Drive Option for Enterprise Disk Portfolio
Seagate Technology this week released to the channel a new option to add full disk encryption to enterprise-class hard drives. Designed to offer a cost-effective means for highly regulated enterprises in such industries as health care and finance to comply with security mandates, Seagate’s Secure Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) technology has long been an option within…