Tech News
Symantec will pay US$695 million for MessageLabs, a security vendor that filters out spam and malicious Web traffic.
Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service
Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:00:16 -0700
Symantec will pay US$695 million for MessageLabs, a security vendor that offers a hosted spam and Web traffic filtering service.
MessageLabs offers its services as a monthly subscription. The filtering [...]
Monday’s stock bloodbath hit tech companies harder than most.
Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:20:10 -0700
Worries about consumer spending, advertising and the ability of IT companies to raise money appear to have hit many tech stocks harder even than the overall market on Monday, one of the worst days on Wall Street since [...]
IT workers may soon hear a lot of talk of ’synergy’ — that’s code for layoffs.
Wall Street’s 777-point sell-off on Monday signaled that the nation’s tech sector is unlikely to emerge unscathed by the economic downturn in the U.S. — with companies being hit in unexpected ways. Just look what happened to Apple Inc., which [...]
The U.S. Congress passes a broadband mapping bill.
Grant Gross, IDG News Service
Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:50:12 -0700
The U.S. Congress has passed legislation intended to help the U.S. and state governments collect better data on where broadband isn’t yet available.
The Broadband Data Improvement Act, approved by unanimous consent by the U.S. Senate late Tuesday, would require [...]
Analytics, SOA, storage networking, and cloud computing providers face huge fallouts as financial customers wither.
September 2008 will certainly go down as one of the blackest months in Wall Street history. Venerable financial institutions such as Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and AIG abruptly vanished or were radically overhauled. Investors lost loads of money — in some [...]
Over time, Windows loses stability. If you keep a computer for more than two years, at some point you’re going to have to bite the bullet and reinstall Windows from scratch. But contrary to popular belief, you won’t have to reformat your hard drive (with one exception, discussed below). The bad stuff you need to [...]
A grand jury looking into the hacking of Sarah Palin’s Yahoo account has concluded its first day with no indictment.
Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:50:26 -0700
A federal grand jury investigation into the compromise of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s Yahoo account has apparently concluded its first day of meetings without an indictment.
Local [...]
SanDisk has rejected Samsung’s unsolicited takeover offer, saying it undervalues the company.
Robert McMillan and Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service
Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:00:15 -0700
SanDisk has rejected an unsolicited takeover bid from hardware maker Samsung Electronics, saying that it undervalues the Milpitas, California, maker of flash storage cards.
The two companies had been in takeover talks for [...]
A private group recommends that responsibility for government cybersecurity be taken away from the U.S. DHS.
Grant Gross, IDG News Service
Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:10:12 -0700
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been ineffective in coordinating government cybersecurity efforts and should be stripped of its authority in the area, members of a private cybersecurity task force [...]
Sony has capped off its Alpha range of cameras with a high-end model that features a full-frame sensor and 24.6-megapixel…
Martyn Williams, IDG News Service
Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:50:11 -0700
Two years after entering the digital single lens reflex (DSLR) camera market, Sony has capped off its Alpha range of cameras with a high-end model that features [...]