Cisco, Motorola Top STB Market Segment
It was a banner year for the cable set top box (STB) market, meaning it was also a banner year for STB co-leader Cisco Systems Inc., which -- you'll recall -- vaulted into STB contention with its $7 billion acquisition of Scientific Atlanta two years ago.
| Gartner: Don't UC Just for the Sake of UC-ing
Stop the presses! Or the unified communications (UC) roll-outs, at the very least. Just because Cisco Systems Inc., Nortel Networks and other vendors tell you that UC solutions will help save you money and empower your workforce, doesn't necessarily mean that you should jump full-tilt into UC.
| Cisco and Microsoft: Clash of the UC Titans
According to market watcher Infonetics Research, both Cisco Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are tops, overall, in the UC space. In fact, buyers say that Cisco and Microsoft are their preferred Unified Messaging and Communicator suppliers.
| Cisco Makes Its Presence Felt in Content Security Gateway Field
Downturn? What downturn? There's no downturn of any kind in the content security gateway segment, which surged by nearly 10 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007, hitting $1.6 billion.
| NSA Seeks Feedback on IPv6 Security Recommendations
The National Security Agency's Central Security Service has released a pair of IPv6-related documents titled "Firewall Design Considerations for IPv6" and "A Filtering Strategy for Mobile IPv6" for industry review and feedback.
| Cisco To Open ISR Routers to Third-Party Apps
At its Partner Summit 2008 earlier this month, Cisco Systems Inc. unveiled its Application eXtension Platform (AXP), a lineup of Linux-based ISR modules designed to run third-party applications.
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Steve Jobs to Give Keynote at WWDC on June 9th
Fortune's Apple 2.0 blog received confirmation from Apple's public relations that Steve Jobs would be delivering the keynote speech at Apple's Wordwide Developer's Conference on Monday, June 9th.Although no official announcement has ...
| 3G iPhone to be Sold in Italy in June 2008
Electronic Weekly's David Manners writes (via CNet.com.au) about a revealing encounter he had with Luigi Licciardi, executive vice president for technology and operations at Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM). Licciardi confirms what everyone essentially k...
| 3G iPhone in May, Another Device at WWDC?
In April, SwitchToaMac.com published a rumor that Apple would be launching the 3G iPhone earlier than expected... in May. At the time, we dismissed it, as the rumor didn't seem to correspond with the circulating expectations that the new iPhone woul...
| Latest iPhone 2.0 Firmware Has 3G On/Off Option
Earlier today we posted a screenshot on our dedicated iPhone blog (RSS) that claimed to depict a new On/Off option to enable 3G speeds. This new preference was found in the latest iPhone 2.0 Beta 5 distributed to developers. By default, th...
| Online Apple Store is Out of iPhones
Both the U.S. and U.K. online Apple Stores are currently out of both the 8GB and 16GB iPhones.
Customers trying to order the iPhone will find that both models are "currently unavailable." This comes just days after UK's O2 c...
| Apple to Provide Refunds for Notebook Power Adapters?
In another class action suit settlement, Apple has reportedly agreed to give refunds of $25-$79 to as many as 2.3 million PowerBook and iBook owners who purchased faulty power adapters that were prone to spark.Customers who bought ce...
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| Hackers find a new place to hide rootkits
Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer's microprocessor, hidden from current antivirus products.
| Microsoft to appeal $1.3 billion EU fine
Microsoft is appealing the $1.3 billion (€899 million) fine imposed on it by the European Union for failing to honor a 2004 antitrust agreement, the company said Friday.
| Vista as insecure as Windows 2000
Good news for users of Windows Vista. According to figures compiled by PC Tools, the OS has experienced only slightly more vulnerabilities than Windows 2000, which appeared eight years ago when malware was far less common.
| Four Microsoft security patches due next week
Microsoft plans to fix critical bugs in its Word, Publisher, and Jet database software next week.
| Judge slaps TorrentSpy with $111 million damages
A U.S. judge has ruled on a nearly $111 million copyright-infringement decision against TorrentSpy.com, the BitTorrent peer-to-peer search site.
| Belgium accuses China of cyberattacks
It’s not just the U.S. and U.K. who are crying foul over China's behavior in cyberspace -- now the government of tiny Belgium has accused hackers from the country of targeting its systems.
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MySpace makes data portability move
Responding to the momentum around data portability, MySpace has launched its own "Data Availability" effort with big-name partners Yahoo, eBay, Twitter, and fellow News Corp. unit Photobucket.
| Sun: Java ubiquity an advantage in RIA battle
Sun Microsystems is counting on the ubiquitous nature of Java to help its JavaFX technology compete in the rich Internet application (RIA) space against rivals Adobe Systems and Microsoft.
| JavaOne: AMD cites Java improvement efforts
Emphasizing the company's commitment to the Java platform, AMD detailed Wednesday how it is building technologies to make Java work better.
| Sun defends JavaFX Script
In a world where the list of scripting languages for application development seems endless, is Sun's JavaFX Script one too many?
| Embarcadero buys CodeGear
CodeGear, the development tools unit of Borland Software, has been acquired by Embarcadero Technologies.
| Artists, developers to synch up in NetBeans
Capabilities to integrate workflows between software developers and artists are being developed for NetBeans, Sun's open source IDE, Sun Vice President James Gosling said this week.
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