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GeoTrust Inc. said in a statement that the company has surpassed each of VeriSign Incs individual SSL certificate brands in the North American SSL certificate market based on its interpretation of data from a May Netcraft survey. The survey measured the VeriSign brands RSA Data Security, VeriSign Trust Network and Thawte. GeoTrust also claims that […]

AirMagnet Inc. on Monday announced the fourth generation of its laptop and handheld wireless security solution. AirMagnet Mobile 4.0 includes 20 new features, such as voice-over-WLAN troubleshooting tools and support for the recently ratified IEEE 802.11i wireless security standard. The products new jitter tool monitors the level of variation in frequency to help prevent connection […]

Marking a turning point in money management, Boston-based State Street Global Advisors moved ahead of Fidelity Investments on Institutional Investor Magazines annual ranking, based on reported assets under management at the end of 2003. State Street is considered an index manager, offering funds that track stock market indexes, in contrast to Fidelitys managed fund outlook. […]

The private sector runs 85 percent of the nations critical infrastructure, but companies are reluctant to work with the government on security due to concerns about competition and liability. To allay those concerns, Congress in 2002 exempted some information submitted to the Homeland Security Department from the Freedom of Information Act and prohibited its discovery […]

TORONTO—Microsoft has big plans for scaling its application-software business, CEO Steve Ballmer told partners at its worldwide partner conference here Tuesday. “My ambition is to make the whole world Danish,” quipped Ballmer, who said the Danish market is almost completely dominated by Microsofts Navision, Axapta and other ERP (enterprise resource planning) and supply chain management […]

Frank Russell Company, publisher of the 21 Russell Indexes, says that its family of indexes was up slightly in the second quarter of 2004, showing 1.3% growth since the first quarter. The Russell 1000 index, comprised of the top 1000 companies on American stock exchanges in terms of market capitalization, grew 1.4% in the second […]

TORONTO—There are 600 million Windows PCs today, according to Microsoft. By 2010, there will be more than 1 billion of them, one company official said. Will Poole, the head of Microsofts Windows client business, made these bold predictions here at the annual Microsoft worldwide partner conference in his keynote Monday morning. Poole said Microsoft expects […]

Storage Technology Corp. last week announced expectations of second-quarter revenue between $510 million and $520 million. Analysts predict revenue of $549.44 million, according to First Call. The company said its revenue shortfall came from unexpected order decline in the last two weeks of the quarter. Read the full story at Smartmoney.com

Vendors are scrambling to give buyers the best possible deals on high-end storage. At a “Rate the Disk Vendors” panel at the Storage Decisions conference in New York City this spring, several attendees reported that street prices for high-end monolithic and modular systems are only approximately 10 percent to 15 percent apart. Randy Kerns, senior […]

Imation Corp. last week announced its 1GB USB 2.0 Swivel Flash Drive. The drive reads at 8MB/sec and writes data at 7MB/sec. The new 1GB drive is available for a manufacturers suggested retail price of $360. Read the full press release at Silicon Valley Biz Ink

TORONTO—Microsofts channel partners here grilled Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) chieftain Doug Burgum more pointedly than did lawyers in the Oracle-PeopleSoft antitrust trial. Burgum kicked off the opening day of Microsofts annual worldwide partner conference with an open, hour-and-a-half question-and-answer session. And questioners were not shy about expressing their concerns about Microsofts partner-program directions involving MBS. […]

TORONTO—Microsoft plans to invest $850 million over the next year in sales, marketing and research and development programs dedicated to beefing up its Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) division. And as part of the renewed MBS focus, Microsoft is considering creating an MBS Global Services plan, via which the division will offer more consulting services around […]