For Intel, McAfee Buy Not Just Business As Usual

Aug-22nd-2010

What’s following Intel’s $7.7 billion acquisition of security vendor McAfee? Intel grand Paul Otellini says it’s an opportunity to integrate security forward a chip. But for many of the big names in tech — like Oracle and Google — diversification has been clew to keeping their momentum strong while key markets cool in the downturn, [...]

Verizon Wireless Offers Budget Phone From ZTE

Aug-22nd-2010

Verizon Wireless has introduced the Salute from ZTE USA, in its pristine collaboration with China’s largest telecom manufacturer. The Salute is a lightweight, trifling slider handset and is being marketed as a low-budget, quiet-to-use phone.
It has a 2.4-inch QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) shield and weighs 3.95 ounces. The Salute’s battery life provides 240 minutes [...]

S.Africa’’s Telkom CFO to leave, shares tumble

Aug-21st-2010

JOHANNESBURG, S.AFRICA: South Africa’s Telkom afore~ its chief financial officer would resign in October, increasing concern in an opposite direction the troubled fixed-line operator’s future and sending its shares tumbling to a greater degree than 3 per cent.
Telkom, whose chief executive, Ruben September, stepped in a descending course earlier than planned last week, is struggling [...]

McAfee adds new partners for innovation

Aug-21st-2010

SANTA CLARA, USA: McAfee, Inc. ~ward Tuesday announced that it has added several new security vendors to its McAfee Security Innovation Alliance program.
The program since has partners across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific and Japan that are committed to helping customers coerce operational savings with McAfee Compatible products.
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Google Adds Developer Fee To Enhance Extension Security

Aug-21st-2010

In etc. to launching a developer preview of its forthcoming Chrome Web Store ~ward Thursday, Google moved to make its developer ecosystem more secure.
Hoping to palm a cost on those who create multiple fake developer accounts conducive to the purpose of propagating malicious extensions and manipulating reviews, the society introduced a nominal $5 fee for [...]

Workers Union at STMicroelectronics reject austerity package

Aug-21st-2010

LONDON: Workers at STMicroelectronics’ conclave facility on the Mediterranean island of Malta, have rejected plans towards an austerity package. The package was one of the conditions against further company investment in the facility.
The Times of Malta reports that The General Workers Union has called for further negotiations before a second vote is taken. In the [...]

Say What? The Week’s Top Five IT Quotes

Aug-21st-2010

“Companies should have ~ing gravely concerned … many employees may not believe that taking company given conditions is equivalent to stealing. It highlights what I call a ‘upright grey area’ around ownership of electronic data.”
Jackie Gilbert, SailPoint’s badness president of marketing and co-founder, on a Harris Interactive supervise that found that almost 50 percent of [...]

Intel To Buy Out McAfee For $7.68 Billion

Aug-21st-2010

Intel shook up the heedlessness landscape Thursday, announcing that it has agreed to acquire antivirus software manufacturer McAfee for $48 per share, or $7.68 billion. The deal, whether it passes regulatory muster, would enable the chipmaker to offer tightly integrated hardware and software surety solutions for PCs, servers, and mobile devices.
Intel said it plans to [...]

S.Africa’’s Telkom CFO to leave, shares tumble

Aug-21st-2010

JOHANNESBURG, S.AFRICA: South Africa’s Telkom before-mentioned its chief financial officer would resign in October, increasing concern near the troubled fixed-line operator’s future and sending its shares tumbling other thing than 3 per cent.
Telkom, whose chief executive, Ruben September, stepped from a high to a low position earlier than planned last week, is struggling to craft [...]

Experts Warn iTunes Flaw Puts Windows at Risk

Aug-21st-2010

If the direst of warnings are to subsist believed, some 40 Windows applications could be in danger thanks to a crack in Apple’s iTunes for Windows.
The flaw, which Apple claims to be favored with patched months ago, leaves the Windows shell and numerous other applications vulnerable to an attack, security researchers are warning. The Slovenian [...]