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IBM Launches Cloud Computing Tools, SmartCloud Foundation
Technology giant IBM launched a set of cloud computing tools designed to help business partners adopt cloud business models and generate new revenue streams by offering public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructures, applications and services to their clients. The company is extending the IBM SmartCloud portfolio with two new public cloud services, SmartCloud Enterprise+ and…
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Apple iPhone 4S Breaks Record for iPhone Preorders
Apple announced that preorders of its iPhone 4S have topped 1 million in a single day, surpassing the previous single-day preorder record of 600,000 held by iPhone 4. The iPhone 4S is the company’s latest smartphone and comes with new features including Apple’s dual-core A5 chip, an all new camera with advanced optics, full 1080p…
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Mobile Cyber-Attacks to Double By End of 2011
Mobile threats have exploded this year, and researchers believe the number of mobile device exploits will double by the end of the year, according to the latest IBM report. The number of known mobile operating system vulnerabilities will increase only incrementally from 2010 to 2011, but the number of exploits based on those flaws is…
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Microsoft and Yahoo: Will They or Won’t They?
Microsoft has no plans to acquire Yahoo, according to a new Bloomberg report. Bloomberg drew its news from two people familiar with the matter, who refuted an earlier report from Reuters that the software giant was seriously considering a bid for the Web-portal company. That Reuters report suggested that Yahoo’s market value stands at $18…
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Apple’s New iPhone 4S Has Sprint, iOS 5, iCloud
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) unveiled the iPhone 4S, a major upgrade over its previous iPhone 4 model that includes the ability to run on both GSM and CDMA networks, a faster, dual-core processor, an 8 megapixel camera and a software program that acts as a virtual assistant. The iPhone 4S also marks the first time Sprint (NYSE:S)…
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IBM Acquires Security Software Specialist Q1 Labs
Technology giant IBM announced it is acquiring Q1 Labs, a Waltham, Mass.-based provider of security intelligence software. The move aims to accelerate IBM’s efforts to help clients more intelligently secure their enterprises by applying analytics to correlate information from key security domains and creating security dashboards for their organizations. Financial terms of the deal were…