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  • Twitter Financial Info Published after Hacking Incident

    (Reuters) – Technology news website TechCrunch published on Wednesday sensitive internal documents belonging to Twitter, including financial projections, offering a rare glimpse into the wildly popular microblogging site. Twitter has a targeted revenue run rate of $140 million by the end of 2010, with the expectation it would record its first revenue — a modest…

  • McAfee Says Spammers Could Teach Marketers a Thing or Two

    In its’ latest spam report, McAfee Inc. says corporate marketing departments could learn a thing or two on how to better target customers. And governments around the world could improve their national and international business prospects by aggressively combating illegal Internet activities, but don’t hold your breath. Spammers understand their "customers," regardless of the country…

  • HP Takes a Swipe at Cisco UCS Strategy

    At a recent press event, Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior said the networking giant wasn’t looking to undercut the existing server market leaders–Hewlett-Packard and IBM–with its forthcoming virtualized blade servers and Unified Computing System strategy. Rather, Warrior said UCS was about building better, next-generation data centers. Obviously a "next-generation data center" will mean displacing the existing…

  • SonicWall Launches Cloud-Based Anti-spam Service

    Security appliance vendor SonicWall is wading into cloud computing with a new hybrid service that provides remotely delivered anti-spam and malicious content protection that’s integrated with its Generation 5 firewalls and unified threat management (UTM) devices. The SonicWALL Comprehensive Anti-Spam Service will be sold as an annual subscription-based service through authorized solution providers. Inspection of…

  • CEOs Perceive Security Needs Differently, Study Finds

    A new piece of research published by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of Ounce Labs found that there is a perception gap between the security expectations and priorities of CEOs and other C-level executives, including the CIO. Announced this week, “The Business Case for Data Protection” examines the results of a survey conducted by Ponemon…

  • IDC Study Touts Windows 7 as Channel Cash Cow

    IDC released a study Tuesday forecasting positive uptick for Windows 7 in the channel, serendipitous timing if you’re a Microsoft fan with eyes on this week’s Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans. Windows 7 has been front and center among the raft of upcoming product and solutions launches that Microsoft is literally blaring from…

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