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Twitter Plugs Dangerous Malware Vulnerability In Midst of New Website Rollout
Another malware attack on Twitter emerged this week, this one using Javascript to spread malicious links users only had to scroll over–not click on–to open pornographic and other websites. The worm was attempted by a user that discovered the vulnerability on Twitter, though they claim they did not take advantage of it to send any ...
Oracle and HP Reunite, Settle Lawsuit over Mark Hurd’s New Ties with Larry Ellison
The legal battle between Hewlett-Packard and Oracle has been settled, meaning the two companies can get back to their strategery. If you recall the dramatic sequence of events surrounding Mark Hurd’s departure from HP, the former CEO spurred a lawsuit when he accepted the co-President position at Oracle. Trade secrets and counter-lawsuit aside, Oracle and ...
Storage Needs to be Simple, Flexible, Automated, Compellent CEO Phil Soran says at VMworld 2010
Compellent is one of the hot new companies in IT, based on its highly flexible, inexpensive, easy-to-use storage with fully automated data tiering and the ability to build architectures across different storage media.
IBM Acquires Netezza for $1.7 Billion, Further Boosting Business Analytics
IBM is making a data storage firm acquisition of its own, announcing plans to acquire Netezza for about $1.7 billion. This is the latest in IBM’s efforts to expand business analytics initiatives, aiding businesses through speedy insight and power boosts for improved performance. Netezza, a provider of high-performance analytics in data warehousing appliances, manages complex ...
Cirtas Storms Into the Cloud Space, with $10M from Amazon and Others
Cirtas, a new cloud storage system, emerges from stealth mode today. It’s off to a great start with $10 million in Series A funding, led by NEA, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Amazon. The company is hitting the ground running, with no plans of becoming a forgotten startup in the crowding sea of cloud-computing solutions. That ...
Anything You Can Do, Google Does Better
Anything you can imagine Google doing, they’re in the process of doing it. That goes from high-level takeovers to feature inclusions on their Apps. This determination to dip their hands into every possible jar is ruffling more than a few feathers, as Google encroaches on Apple’s mobile market, Facebook’s social network, Microsoft’s software, Mozilla’s web ...
Microsoft Launches Mobile Advertising SDK for Windows Phone 7 Apps and RTB Exchange
Advancements for real-time bidding for mobile ads, coming from Microsoft Advertising today. The company is launching its Mobile Advertising SDK for Windows Phone 7 and Microsoft Advertising Exchange for Mobile. The intent bend the new SDK is to encourage marketing innovations around its mobile platforms. They will enable ad serving for Windows Phone 7 apps, ...
Juniper Networks Confirm Latest Microsoft Vulnerability Solutions
Juniper Networks announced a new supported security solution for Microsoft vulnerabilities today, confirming its Intrusion Detection and prevention system, as well as the Integrated Security Gateway. Par of Juniper Network’s J-Security Center, the updates are intended to minimize disruption in physical machines and virtual environments, with the ISG designed as a firewall/virtual private network system ...
Yahoo TV Lands on Toshiba HDTVs, Fragmenting App Market
Yahoo’s seeking some additional expansion through apps. What else? The company’s Yahoo Connected TV is now available on several new models Toshiba HDTV’s, including the WX800 Cinema Series(R) 3D LED. Viewers will have an interactive app market for accessing movie and television content from Yahoo’s network, directly through their televisions. “Yahoo! is reaching consumers wherever ...
IBM Chief Blasts HP, Company to Acquire OpenPages to Bolster Analytics
More disdain for Hewlett-Packard and the way it handled the 3PAR bidding war, as well as the Mark Hurd fiasco–this time coming from IBM Chief Executive Samuel J. Palmisano. In a Wall Street Journal interview, Palmisano made more than a few candid comments about the poor judgment used by HP. The comments exemplify the ongoing ...