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Google Uses Data to Get Ahead of Malware, Intercepts Browser Attacks
Google has rolled out a new notification for its search engine that will detect whether not a user’s connection is being intercepted. In case a user’s computer is infected with a type of malware that hijacks their search results by routing them to Google’s servers via a proxy, the search engine will display a large ...
Amazon Cuts Deal with CBS and Follows the Lead of Netflix
Amazon is directly competing with Netflix and other content streaming services with Amazon Prime. Today the company took a significant leap forward and signed a non-exclusive agreement with CBS to offer 2,000 episodes of the broadcasting giant’s library to customers of its video streaming service. This means users will be able to access a total ...
VMware Reports Strong Q2 Earnings, Looks to Further Monetize Licenses
VMware had its earnings call today, rounding up the second quarter of fiscal year 2011. The company reported some impressive figures indicating a fair amount of growth- U.S revenues grew 35 percent year-over-year to $450 million, while international revenues grew 38 percent to $471 million. Wall Street estimates averaged only $873 billion. Earnings were 37 ...
Huawei Symantec Launches First All-Flash Array
Huawei Symantec (HS), a joint venture between Chinese storage and networking equipment manufacturer Huawei and software giant Symantec, announced the latest addition to its product portfolio: the OceanSpace Dorado S2100. The all-flash array is probably one of the first ever developed by a SAN and NAS storage array vendor, and aims to offer lower prices ...
Apple Sees Record Earnings, Lion Out Tomorrow
Apple held its earnings call today, and reported stellar results for its third quarter. The company has seen an 82 percent increase in revenue compared to last year’s $15.7 billion: it generated $28.57 billion, a record breaking number that easily surpassed analysts’ average expectation of $24.92 billion. Apple’s profit was up 124 percent this quarter ...
Google News Taps Gamification to Enhance Social Side
Gamification, the implementation of a certain game-like mechanisms to improve business, is a much wider trend than one would think. It has proven to be effective for many companies including startups that are based their offering wholly on this concept, and Google is the latest one that is trying to take advantage of it. The ...
IBM Breaks Wall Street Expectations for Q2
IBM held its earnings call today, topping analysts’ average expectations at $25.4 billion in revenue. The tech industry veteran reported 12 percent year-over-year growth up to $26.7 billion in revenue, and also raised its full-year earnings forecast to at least $13.25 a share compared to analysts’ average estimate of $13.21. “In the second quarter our ...
Intel Feels the Burn as Mobile and Cloud Bite into PC Sales
Smartphones, tablets and countless cloud services that eliminate the need to store or view data from one particular device are biting into PC sales, and every company down the supply chain seems to be feeling the effects. Intel is no exception: stocks are down in light of investor concerns over the economy. As mobile competition ...
Survey: VMware Holds Lead in Virtualization. Citrix, Microsoft Trail Behind
A new study called the V-Index, commissioned by virtualization management vendor Veeam and carried out by research firm Vanson Bourne, provides a look into the split-up of the virtualization market. It found that 58 percent of companies that deployed x86 virtualization software, 92 percent of 540 respondents chose VMware vSphere as their primary hypervisor. Citrix’s ...
How the Pentagon Hack May have been a Result of an E-mail Scam
Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III admitted in a Cybersecurity keynote last week that hackers managed to steal over 24,000 Pentagon files, most likely from a defense contractor. He did not disclose a lot of details about the incident, but hinted towards “foreign introducers” that managed to get their hands on “satellite communications systems, ...