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Article | 15/09/2011 Dell plans to double staff working on Force10 products

Dell plans to double the number of staff selling, marketing and developing the products of Force10 Networks, the networking company it acquired in Aug...

Article | 15/09/2011 Google acquires more than 1000 IBM patents

Google has acquired over 1000 patents from IBM, as part of its strategy to strengthen its patent portfolio to counter litigation, according to record...

Article | 15/09/2011 CSC acquires Indian testing company AppLabs

IT services company, Computer Sciences Corporation, said Wednesday it has acquired AppLabs Technologies, a privately held Indian software testing serv...

Article | 14/09/2011 Google, Motorola file for merger clearance in many countries

Google and Motorola Mobility plan to file for pre-closing antitrust clearances for the merger of Motorola with a Google subsidiary in a number of juri...

Article | 13/09/2011 Research In Motion, Dolby settle patent lawsuits

Dolby Laboratories said Monday that Research In Motion has agreed to license audio technologies that were at the center of two lawsuits filed by Dolby...

Article | 12/09/2011 GlobalSign plans to reopen Tuesday despite web server hack

GlobalSign expects to bring its certificate-issuing systems back online on Monday, and resume business Tuesday, it said over the weekend. The U.S. cer...

Article | 9/09/2011 US telecom provider's former CEO sentenced for bribing

A former CEO of Latin Node, a telecommunications company in Florida, was sentenced to 46 months in prison under U.S. anti-bribery laws on Wednesday, ...

Article | 9/09/2011 Google contacts Iranian users to secure Gmail accounts

Google is directly contacting users in Iran, who may have been compromised by a rogue SSL certificate, to recommend measures to secure their accounts.

Article | 6/09/2011 Nearly 300,000 Iranian IP addresses likely compromised

Close to 300,000 unique IP addresses from Iran requested access to google.com using a rogue certificate issued by Dutch digital certificate authority ...

Article | 6/09/2011 India to start filtering telemarketers later this month

India's telecom regulator said on Monday that new legislation to filter telemarketers will come into force finally on Sept. 27, after a number of post...

Article | 2/09/2011 Anonymous claims hack of Texas police website

Anonymous has attacked the website of the <a href="http://www.texaspolicechiefs.org/">Texas Police Chiefs Association</a>, in retaliation for the arre...

Article | 31/08/2011 Report: US said to be investigating Oracle's Africa deals

U.S. federal agencies are investigating whether Oracle violated federal anti-bribery laws in dealings abroad, The Wall Street Journal <a href="http://...

Article | 31/08/2011 WikiLeaks cable: Apple slow to counter Chinese fakes

Apple did not have a global security team, including in China, until March, 2008, when it hired employees from drug company Pfizer, to counter rampant...

Article | 30/08/2011 Infosys offers business platforms from the cloud

Infosys, India's second largest outsourcer, is offering business platforms on a subscription model from the cloud, as part of its strategy to focus on...

Article | 30/08/2011 Nokia developer forum hacked, still unavailable

The community section of Nokia's <a href="http://www.developer.nokia.com/">developer site </a>was hacked, and some member's e-mail addresses have been...