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Even his staunchest critics would admit that President Obama has done plenty to bring the issue of national cybersecurity to the fore. His administration has been expanded to add key leadership positions and departments charged with advancing American cybersecurity and literacy in the Digital Age. As eSecurity Planet discovered, this mantra has caught on with […]

“It would be disaster if only one or two companies came to control the cloud…. We don’t want Amazon or Google becoming the equivalent of Microsoft’s Windows. We want a diverse and competitive cloud.” Michael Nelson, a visiting professor of Internet studies at Georgetown University, warning about the dangers of consolidation in the market of […]

The race to virtualize data centers and transition away from traditional on-premise software installations to more cloud-based applications and services is perhaps the top priority for large, enterprise-class customers. But as Small Business Computing reports, the best option for small and midsized businesses appears to be a hybrid approach that lets your company enjoy the […]

Google expects to release its Chrome computer operating system in the “late fall”, a top executive said on Wednesday, as it aims a competitive strike at rival Microsoft’s Windows. The Chrome system will be designed initially to work on laptop PCs, Sundar Pichai, Google’s head of the Chrome project, told reporters at the Computex PC […]

“A lot of people right now are upset with us over these changes, and I take that really seriously.” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressing the company’s rapid and ongoing growth as Facebook announced new privacy controls in an effort to quell a heated controversy. (eSecurityPlanet) “I don’t want to hear any crap about something magical […]

Fearing “huge” losses in sales after pictures leaked of its fourth-generation iPhone, Apple convinced police to launch a felony investigation and CEO Steve Jobs contacted the offending Web site himself to try and recover the gadget. A California court unsealed a search warrant on Friday in the case of the lost or stolen prototype 4G […]

While companies are finally waking up to the importance of creating an effective e-discovery strategy to do things like investigate employees, conduct research for lawsuits or get to the bottom of both intentional and unintentional security breaches, a full 26 percent of executives surveyed said their organizations had yet to implement an official e-discovery program. […]

Eager to deliver a full suite of converged networking equipment and services for private cloud installations, EMC unveiled the specifics of its expanded reseller agreement with Cisco Systems and Brocade. The storage software and management vendor will introduce a full range of Brocade 10Gbit Ethernet switches and selected Cisco Nexus 10Gbit Ethernet switchesthrough the EMC […]

Nokia, the world’s top handset maker, broadened its patent fight with Apple on Friday to include the iPad, deepening the bitter legal disputes between the two smartphone rivals. The firms turned to the courts in the last year as Nokia battles Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), which only entered the cellphone business in 2007, but has taken […]

Nokia’s Symbian-based smartphones are poised to get a new unified communications client courtesy of Microsoft, which this week said it was working with the Finnish mobile phone giant to port over its Office Communicator Mobile software. It’s the first step in a wider effort announced last year that will see Microsoft bringing more of its […]

The Elevate America Veterans Initiative is taking another step forward. The effort, led by Microsoft, seeks to get U.S. military veterans hooked up with the IT skills employers are looking for — thereby increasing the country’s pool of IT workers while helping veterans better reintegrate into the workforce. The program just began accepting proposals for […]

To whom does the CIO report? In many organizations, it’s usually the CFO — a fact that can have significant implications for how IT performs its functions. That’s the conclusion drawn by research firm Gartner and the Financial Executives Research Foundation, the educational affiliate of the Financial Executives International, an industry association. The two groups […]