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Firewalls and Firewall Management: Here to Stay
Contrary to some security experts’ proclamations over the past few years, the demise of the corporate firewall has been seriously oversold. While depending on the firewall and antivirus (AV) alone would be considered foolish in today’s time of sophisticated cyberattacks designed to elude these signature- and rule-based blacklist technologies, the truth is that the firewall…
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1. His Management Changes Were Right
1. His Management Changes Were Right Ballmer has appointed his own leadership team over the past few years. These were changes intended to imprint his mark on Microsoft’s culture. As many of those division leaders deliver products this year, all eyes will be on Ballmer to see if his management decisions were right. 2. Tablets…
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Intel Ultrabook Sales Spur Growth in Cache SSDs: IHS
Booming sales of Ultrabooks spurred by strong support from Intel will drive explosive growth in the market for cache solid state drives (SSDs) in the coming years, with shipments set to soar more than a hundredfold by the end of 2015, up from less than one million units in 2011, according to an IHS iSuppli…
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Microsoft Prepping Real-Time Botnet Threat Intelligence System
NEW YORK — Microsoft is planning to make the data it collected as part of its botnet takedown operations available as a real-time threat intelligence feed. The company would distribute threat data obtained from captured botnets and other sources to foreign governments, law enforcement, Computer Emergency Response Teams and private corporations, two members of the…
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Microsoft, LG Enter Android, Chrome OS Agreement
Microsoft and LG Electronics have signed a patent-licensing agreement for the latter s Google Android devices. Although neither company disclosed the exact terms, similar agreements have seen manufacturers paying Microsoft royalties for each Android device created. Microsoft has argued for some time that Android violates several of its patents. The agreement with LG Electronics also…
