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Microsoft Closes Windows Intune Beta Program

April 21st, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft decided to decline new beta users for its Windows Intune, a cloud-based management system for IT administrators of midsize businesses, due to what the company called overwhelming response. Intune allows those administrators to control everything from automatic antivirus policy to diagnosing unbootable PCs via a dashboard, and provides corporate end-users with a way to check for software updates or submit an alert to an IT help desk. General release of Intune is expected a year after the month-long beta testing concludes.
– Less
than two days after rolling out the beta program of its cloud-based Windows
Intune, a management system for IT administrators of midsize businesses,
Microsoft announced that it had closed the offering to new users.

Â“Due
to the overwhelming response to the beta invitations, we are no lon…

HP Closes 3Com Deal, Takes Aim at Cisco

April 12th, 2010 | No Comments

HP has completed its $2.7 billion deal for 3Com, a move that will expand its ProCurve data center networking portfolio and allow it to better compete in the converged data center space against rivals such as Cisco, IBM and Dell.
– Hewlett-Packard has completed its $2.7 billion acquisition of networking vendor 3Com, giving the company more ammunition in its growing data center competition with Cisco Systems.
3Com will be integrated into HPs ProCurve networking
business, and an integration road map will be rolled out at a lat…

Google Closes Chinese Search Site, Points to Google.hk

March 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

Making good on its threats, Google March 22 ceased censoring its Google search results on Google.cn, the company’s response to a cyber-attack on the Gmail accounts of dozens of human rights activists. Google is now redirecting those who visit the search engine to its Hong Kong site Google.com.hk. Users in Hong Kong will continue to receive their existing uncensored Chinese service from Google.com.hk. The move comes more than two months after Google shocked the world Jan. 12 by threatening to exit China in the wake of hacks on Gmail accounts of Chinese dissidents and human rights activists.
– Google March 22 ceased censoring its Google Search,
Google News and Google Images sites on Google.cn, the search engine’s response
to a cyber-attack in which the Gmail accounts of dozens of human rights
activists were accessed.
Google is now redirecting those who visit the search
engine to…

China Closes Hacker Training School, Arrests 3

February 8th, 2010 | No Comments

China officials have shut down Black Hawk Safety Net, the country’s biggest hacker training Website, and arrested three people for making hacker tools available online.
– China announced it has arrested three people in connection with operating a hacker training school that distributed malware and hacking tools to its members in online forums.
According to Xinhua,
China
s state-run newspaper, three people were arrested in connection with making the tools availabl…

Lotusphere 2010 Opens, Closes with Shatner, Project Vulcan

January 20th, 2010 | No Comments

There was no way to avoid it. Star Trek jokes abounded at IBM’s Lotusphere event held Jan. 17 to 21. Actor William Shatner, who portrayed Capt. James T. Kirk in the original television and movie series, opened the show with a chat about Lotus collaboration, and IBM executives closed the show by unveiling Project Vulcan. Vulcan is a forthcoming collaboration platform that will combine the Lotus Notes portfolio with IBM’s social software and Cognos business intelligence applications. IBM officials also introduced IBM Lotus Notes applications for iPhone and Android devices, improvements to Lotus Connections and Lotus Quickr, and a bolstered partnership with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, which is using Lotus Connections.
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Sensex closes flat amid weak global cues

January 20th, 2010 | No Comments

A benchmark index of the Indian equities markets ended flat Wednesday, 11 points lower, even as global markets weakened.
The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened at 17,486.69 points, ended at 17,474.49 points, down 11.57 points or 0.07 percent from its previous close at 17,486.06 points.
At the National Stock Exchange [...]

British chill closes airports, schools

January 5th, 2010 | No Comments

Heavy snow and freezing temperatures wreaked havoc on road and rail links in parts of Britain Tuesday, forcing the closure of two airports and hundreds of schools, officials said. In northwest England, heavy snow blocked roads and triggered accidents in the Cumbria region while Manchester

Avaya Closes Acquisition of Nortel Business Unit

December 20th, 2009 | No Comments

Avaya is looking to take the lead in enterprise telephony with its $900 million purchase of Nortels Enterprise Solutions business. The enterprise business is the latest unit that bankrupt Nortel has sold off this year. Still, despite its efforts to drastically shrink the company, Nortel is continuing to roll out products, most recently announcing a 100G optical solution.
– Avaya has completed its $900
million acquisition of bankrupt Nortel Networks enterprise business, a
deal that analysts say will push Avaya ahead of Cisco Systems in the enterprise
telephony market.
With Nortels Enterprise Solutions business in the fold, Avaya, which
announced the closing of the…

Nokia Closes Flagship Stores in NYC, Chicago and London

December 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Nokia is closing flagship stores in New York, Chicago and London, after a year in which profits and sales continued to slip. Analysts suggest that Apples iPhone is partly to blame and that Googles Android may be part of the solution.
– After a difficult year, Nokia is closing its two U.S. flagship stores, in New York and Chicago, Reuters is reporting, as well as its flagship store on Regent Street, in London.

quot;Flagship stores are important in fashion industry: Apple is fashion.
Nokia is consumer electronics, quot; John…

Cricket: Dravid closes on century to lead India recovery

November 16th, 2009 | No Comments

Rahul Dravid helped lead a defiant fightback for India as the hosts reached 221 for five at tea on the opening day of the first test on Monday after Sri Lanka’s Chanaka Welegedara had ripped through the top order. Dravid reached the interval on 98 not out and shared in a 125-run fifth wicket

Book fair sees 130,000 visitors

November 1st, 2009 | No Comments

Some 130,000 visitors made their way to the 54th annual Belgrade Book Fair over the last week. The fair closes on Sunday night.

Geely closes in on Volvo: On a roll

October 29th, 2009 | No Comments

Ford seems likely to sell its last luxury brand to a Chinese upstart

DESPITE lingering misgivings, Ford Motor Company announced on October 28th that it had picked China’s Geely as the preferred bidder for its Volvo subsidiary. If Geely, China’s largest and brashest privately owned carmaker, succeeds in acquiring such a respected brand it would be a testament to the extraordinary ambition of its chairman and founder, Li Shufu, the self-styled Henry Ford of China. Mr Li is thought to be prepared to pay around $2 billion for Volvo, about a third as much as Ford spent to acquire it in 1999.

A deal is unlikely to be signed before the end of the year, but negotiations would not have got this far if Ford had not satisfied itself that its biggest concern, the transfer of intellectual property to the Chinese firm, could be resolved. Because Ford and Volvo are joined at the hip in engineering terms, Geely has been forced to go to considerable lengths to reassure Ford that it will not simply purloin the pair’s advanced platforms and powertrains for its existing car business. If the deal is done, Volvo’s new owner will be a consortium led by Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, a privately held firm. It says Volvo will be run as an autonomous entity, headquartered in Sweden, at arm’s length from Geely’s manufacturing operations in China. Ford insists that Volvo and its technology will be protected by “internationally binding and enforceable agreements”. There is no reason, however, why Volvo and Geely should not co-operate on future research and development projects if Volvo’s “independent” management is willing. …

Microsoft Closes Deal on Razorfish

October 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft and French advertising agency Publicis Groupe SA have finalized the sale of Razorfish, Redmonds digital-advertising subsidiary which it originally acquired as part of a $6 billion deal in 2007. Although Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer predicted during that period that Microsoft would expand its advertising-services base and acquire a range of companies, the ensuing economic recession and PC-sales slump has forced Microsoft to consolidate around its software lines, including the upcoming Windows 7.
– Microsoft has finalized the sale of its Razorfish digital-advertising subsidiary to French
advertising company Publicis Groupe SA. Under the terms of the closing,
announced on Oct. 14, Publicis Groupe will pay Microsoft some $286.8 million and
6.5 million shares of stock.

In return, Microsoft…

Toshiba Closes Deal to Take Over Fujitsu HDD Business

October 2nd, 2009 | No Comments

Financial details of the buyout, which has been in the works for months, were not disclosed. The two companies, who came to this agreement back in February, originally wanted to close the deal by July 1, but it took longer than expected to nail down the details.
– Toshiba and Fujitsu said Oct. 1 that they have signed final papers that clear the way for Toshiba to take over Fujitsu’s multinational hard drive design and manufacturing businesses.

Financial details of the buyout, which has been in the works for months, were not disclosed. The two companies, w…

US closes Mexico border crossing after shootout

September 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

US authorities closed the world’s busiest land border crossing on Tuesday after a shootout between suspected Mexican human traffickers and US agents, US officials said. “The port is closed and will remain closed for several hours,” US Customs and Border Patrol spokeswoman Angelica Decima

Vietnam English daily closes, blames global crisis

August 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

A Vietnamese newspaper that helped expose a major corruption scandal announced on Saturday it was shutting down its daily English-language print edition, citing difficulties caused by the global economic crisis. In a front-page note to readers, Thanh Nien Daily said it was being

Federal Government Closes down Liberty Dollar

August 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

By Michael Webster: Syndicated Investigative Reporter In the US District Court in Charlotte North Carolina on July 6, 2009, The Liberty Dollarâ€™s operation was shut down.Â U.S. Magistrate Judge David S. Cayer on 7/6/09 Ordered all defendants in the case shall not circulate or aid in the circulation of any coins or currency in relation to [...]

LABS GALLERY: iPhone OS 3.0.1 Closes SMS Holes, Should Be Applied ASAP

August 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

Apple’s iPhone OS 3.0.1 update doesnt provide any compelling new features or functionality for users, but it does purport to fix the SMS vulnerabilities discussed in depth at Black Hat in late-July. Administrators and users are advised to install the update ASAP, before attacks surface in the wild.
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