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Cisco to Leverage Routers, WAN to Connect Enterprises to the Cloud
Cisco Systems continues to be the dominant player in the increasingly competitive router space, and executives are looking to push that advantage going in 2012 by extending the solutions strategy they say is the company s key differentiator. Over the past year-plus, Cisco has aggressively brought services–such as security and collaboration–onto its Integrated Service Routers…
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Symantec Warns pcAnywhere Users to Disable Tool
The saga over Symantec’s stolen code took another twist as the company acknowledged that pcAnywhere customers are at risk for man-in-the-middle attacks and new exploits. The breach actually occurred on Symantec servers in 2006, and attackers stole source code to several Norton security products and the pcAnywhere remote access tool, Symantec confirmed last week. At…
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Apple iPhone 5 Features Larger Screen: Report
Apple s upcoming iPhone 5 will feature a bigger screen and a different casing from the iPhone 4, suggests a new posting on the Apple-centric blog 9to5Mac. According to the Jan. 25 report s reliable source at Foxconn in China, the various prototypes circulating around that production facility share some common features, including a 4-plus-inch…
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HP Committing webOS to Open Source by September
Technology giant Hewlett-Packard began executing its plan to deliver an open webOS by committing to a schedule for making the platform’s source code available under an open-source license. The company said it aims to complete this milestone in its entirety by September. The webOS code will be made available under the Apache License, version 2.0,…
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iPhone 4S, iPad Drive Record Sales for Apple
Apple sold 37.04 million iPhones and 15.43 million iPads during its fiscal 2012 first quarter, which ended Dec. 31. That suggests a particularly strong holiday selling season for the company; the iPhone number, for example, was well above the 30.2 million units predicted by many analysts. Overall, quarterly revenue totaled $46.33 billion, with a…
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VMware Profits Rise 67 Percent
VMware, the world’s largest virtualization software and services provider, popped open at least a few people’s eyes Jan. 23 when it announced a whopping 67 percent year-over-year net income increase in its fourth-quarter 2011 earnings report. Continued growth in service and license revenue to go with larger profit margins helped VMware post quarterly net income…