Monthly Archives: December 2011
HP, Box Partner on Cloud Content Management Platform
Technology giant Hewlett-Packard and secure content-sharing specialist Box announced a partnership to provide small and midsize businesses with an integrated collaboration experience to a...
Federal Agency Needed to Take Charge of Nation’s Power Grid, Says MIT
A single federal agency should be in charge of defending the nation's critical infrastructure from cyber-attacks, and not the patchwork of organizations currently in...
FCC Chief Warns Against the Perversion of Technology to Do Evil
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski spoke on Monday, Dec. 5, to an audience that had assembled to witness the swearing in of the...
Ice Cream Sandwich Tablet Debuts in China for $100
Two computer chip companies have joined forces to build what they claim is the first tablet computer based on Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android 4.0 Ice...
EMC, Symantec Lead Storage Software Revenue Surge: IDC
Storage software revenue reached nearly $3.5 billion in the third quarter of 2011, a 9.7 percent increase over the same quarter in 2010, according...
Rebit, Carbonite Team for Cloud-Based Backup for Desktop Devices
Rebit, which makes what it cheerfully calls "ridiculously simple" backup software for consumers and small busineses, said Dec. 5 that version 5 of its...
New MapR Hadoop Version Includes Windows, Mac Support
Apache Hadoop, like most open-source projects, is a true work in progress and has always possessed great horsepower to analyze batches of data in...
Cisco’s Share of Ethernet Switch Market Jumps: IDC
Cisco Systems, which earlier this year said it was refocusing on its core businesses, saw its share of the competitive Ethernet switch market jump...
Adobe Promises Patch for Zero-Day Flaw in Acrobat, Reader
Adobe warned of a zero day vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat that is currently being exploited in the wild.The new critical vulnerability in...
Sourcefire Next-Gen Firewall Delivers Context-Aware IPS, Threat Blocking
Sourcefire is expanding its network-security portfolio with a new next-generation firewall to provide context awareness and deep packet-inspection capabilities.The new product line combines next-generation...