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Hackers are defeating tough authentication, Gartner warns
Security measures such as one-time passwords and phone-based user authentication, considered among the most robust forms of security, are no longer enough...
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Adobe probes new in-the-wild PDF bug
Adobe confirmed that hackers are exploiting a vulnerability in the most up-to-date version of its PDF viewing and editing applications. "This afternoon,...
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Seagate to release world’s thinnest laptop drive
Seagate Technology announced what it’s calling the world’s thinnest laptop and netbook hard drive, the Momentus Thin drive, which at 7mm, is...
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New Western Digital format squeezes 11% more capacity from drives
Western Digital (WD) is beginning to use a new hard disk drive format that opens up between 7% and 11% more capacity...
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Microsoft buys Opalis to strengthen cloud management capabilities
Moving to strengthen its management tools related to virtual environments, Microsoft said that it has purchased IT process automation vendor Opalis for...
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Google’s ‘Nexus One’ test phone: details emerge
Watch out Apple, here comes Nexus One, the Google phone the tech world has been salivating over. Over the weekend Google set...
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Sun updates Java Store beta
Sun Microsystems unveiled an updated beta release of Java Store, a storefront for discovering and acquiring Java and JavaFX applications. The beta...
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FVC highlights tech advantages for Petrochemical industry at PetroTech 2009
FVC is participating in the upcoming PetroTech 2009, an International Oil & Gas Technology Conference and Exhibition to be held in Cairo...
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HP aims at flexible, unified storage
Hewlett-Packard hopes to do the same thing with storage that it did with servers, leveraging years of system-building experience and economies of...
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Blue Coat maintains lead in WAN Optimization market
Blue Coat Systems announced that it continued its lead in the Wide Area Network (WAN) optimization market for the first three calendar...
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Microsoft getting better at Patch Tuesday updates, experts say
All told, Microsoft released 74 patches in 2009 and while some months were worse than others (such as October), security experts say...
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Microsoft Partner Network – Invest in competencies for the future
Microsoft recently changed its Microsoft Partner Program to the Microsoft Partner Network – an initiative to fortify and better support partners. This...
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Realigning Microsoft’s Azure unit could boost innovation, squabbling
Unifying Windows Azure with its on-premises counterpart Windows Server should hasten the rollout of new features in Microsoft Corp.’s enterprise cloud platform,...
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Comviva partners with Mobinil for SMS router
Comviva, the leading provider of integrated VAS solutions for mobile operators in emerging markets, today announced that Mobinil, Egypt’s largest GSM operator...
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Google releases experimental phone to employees
Google has handed out a new mobile phone running its Android software to some employees, stirring another wave of speculation that the...