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Mitel, Black Box Partner on Cloud-Based UC
By Jeffrey Burt | Posted: 2013-08-28
Black Box will resell, implement and service Mitel’s MiCloud UCaaS offering to businesses in the United States.
Complex Password Cracking About to Get Faster
By Sean Michael Kerner | Posted: 2013-08-27
Longer, more complicated passwords are mathematically more complex to crack, but thanks to a new tool from Hashcat, that's about to change.
BlackBerry World's Problem Is a Lack of Support, Not Quality
By Michelle Maisto | Posted: 2013-08-27
One source is responsible for more than one-third of the apps in BlackBerry World. Users are already aware of the problem.
Federal IT Workers Say SDN Has Value, but Many Are Unfamiliar With It
By Jeffrey Burt | Posted: 2013-08-26
A Juniper survey found that many government IT pros say SDN will help cut costs and increase efficiencies, but only a third have plans to adopt it.
HP CEO Whitman: Dell Swapping Challenges by Going Private
By Jeffrey Burt | Posted: 2013-08-23
While being a private company means the PC maker won’t have to worry about Wall Street, it still will need to meet debt obligations.
NASDAQ Halt: System Glitch or Hack?
By Sean Michael Kerner | Posted: 2013-08-23
The NASDAQ stock exchange halted trading for hours yesterday, with the cause being labeled as a technical glitch, but events in recent memory may cause some to look for another root cause.
Ubuntu Linux Edge Misses Funding Goal: What's Next?
By Sean Michael Kerner | Posted: 2013-08-22
A crowdfunding effort to raise $32 million in 30 days fell short, but that's doesn't mean it's the end for the Ubuntu Linux phone dream.
SDN Market Will Reach $3.52 Billion, Report Says
By Jeffrey Burt | Posted: 2013-08-21
Transparency Market Research says the industry will be driven by the need for greater programability and efficiency in networks.
Apple, Facebook Hackers Get Their 'Just' Reward (or Do They?)
By Sean Michael Kerner | Posted: 2013-08-21
Should security researchers be rewarded for violating the security of the sites they are trying to help protect? A pair of recent incidents potentially reveal two different answers.
Xamarin, Symplified Team Up to Bring Identity Management to Mobile Devs
By Darryl K. Taft | Posted: 2013-08-21
Symplified and Xamarin announced a partnership to provide mobile developers with user authentication and single sign-on for native mobile applications.
Dell Upgrades Foglight for Virtualization Management Suite
By Jeffrey Burt | Posted: 2013-08-20
The enhanced software offerings come less than a week before the VMware-hosted VMworld 2013 conference.
Groklaw, NSA and Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
By Sean Michael Kerner | Posted: 2013-08-20
The NSA's email spying program is blamed in the shutdown of Groklaw, a popular open-source Website that led the fight against Linux litigant SCO.
Storage Startup Maginatics Gets $17 Million from Intel, Others
By Jeffrey Burt | Posted: 2013-08-20
The three-year-old company is getting support from some big-name companies, including Intel and VMware.
HP Unveils Latest Flexible Series Thin Client
By Jeffrey Burt | Posted: 2013-08-19
The new t820 will offer powerful Intel chips, AMD graphics capabilities and wide virtualization support.
Open-Source PHP Gets Updates for Stability, Security
By Sean Michael Kerner | Posted: 2013-08-19
New PHP 5.5.2 and 5.4.18 updates provide fixes for flaws old and new, including fixes for heap overflow, OpenSSL and Session Fixation issues.
