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Cisco to Buy BNI Video for $99 Million
Networking and communications giant Cisco Systems is buying privately-held BNI Video. Headquartered in Boxborough, Mass., BNI Video supplies service providers with two video products that offer video back-office and content delivery network (CDN) analytic capabilities. The acquisition is designed to boost the capabilities of Cisco’s Videoscape communications platform, which allows service providers to deliver video…
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HP, Microsoft Partner on ‘Vblock Killer’ VM System
When three industry giants–Cisco Systems (networking), EMC (storage) and VMware (virtualization) formed the Virtual Computing Environment joint venture called Acadia in November 2009 to build Vblock virtualized data center systems, well-informed industry folks knew it was only a matter of time before another Tier 1 IT company or two stepped up to compete. That came…
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VMware Turns in Stellar Earnings Report but Anticipates 2012 Slowdown
Virtualization software market leader VMware turned in another stellar quarterly earnings report Oct. 17, citing profit of $178 million in the third quarter that more than doubled what it banked a year ago. However, its chief financial officer also warned of macroeconomic storm clouds ahead in 2012. The Palo Alto-based company earned 42 cents per…
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Microsoft Posts Strong Revenue on Business Software, Windows Sales
For its first fiscal quarter of 2012, Microsoft reported strong sales of traditional software such as Windows and Office. But its online services, which the company is betting will eventually help supplant traditional software as a major revenue driver, remain a relatively small part of the overall revenue scheme. Overall, Microsoft reported revenue of…
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Security Loophole Found in Apple iPhone 4S’s Siri: Analyst
Apple’s iPhone 4S comes with a digital assistant named Siri, who responds to voice commands and can perform a variety of tasks ranging from scheduling appointments to sending texts. According to one security analyst, however, Siri also comes with a significant–but easy to fix–security loophole. “I borrowed a passcode-locked iPhone 4S from a colleague here…