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Hello, this is Denis Pilipchuk again. Hearing about a critical security issue in a product is one of the most feared situations for a product manager. Vulnerabilities, in addition to compromising the security postures of customers using the affected products... [Source: Oracle Blogs / 03-10]

Upcoming Webcast Title: E-Business Suite Cloning Basics & AMP Date: March 17, 2010 Times: Two different sessions are being offered: 11:00 am MDT/13:00 EDT/05:00 Australia  Click here to register for this session 09:00 GMT/10:00 CET/11:00 Romania/13:30 Indi... [Source: Oracle Blogs / 03-10]

The Enterprise Mobility Solutions business of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced the successful completion of Project 25 (P25) interoperability testing using Project 25 Inter-RF Subsystem Interface (P25 ISSI) gateways to communicate betwee [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 03-10]

The Enterprise Mobility Solutions business of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced industry-first enhancements for its innovative [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 03-10]

MKM Partners analyst Kevin Shea this morning upped his rating on Citrix Systems (CTXS) to Neutral from Sell, while lifting his price target to $47, from $34. The stock closed yesterday at $45.98. In a research note, Shea writes that the current quarter is trac... [Source: BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily / 03-10]

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Kanguru Solutions today announced its latest product to receive Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS 140-2) Certification, the Kanguru Defender Elite; the world's most manageable, secure flash drive. FIPS 140-2, a rigorous federal security accreditat... [Source: Defense-Dispatch.com / 03-10]

TechNewsSource - Gartner - Writing a sales proposal represents an important investment made more stressful by pressures and expectations to win, so Gartner, Inc. recommends that marketing leaders at business-to-business (B2B) technology and service providers f... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 03-10]

TechNewsSource - Microsoft - Top Stories - Microsoft, the City of New York, and Selfhelp Community Services use technology to create an interactive experience between homebound seniors and local senior centers. [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 03-10]

TechNewsSource - CA - CA, Inc. (NASDAQ:CA), the School of Business Administration at Oakland University, Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona, and Kelley School of Business at Indiana University today announ... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 03-10]

TechNewsSource - Gartner Blog Network - There are a number of life sayings that are generally good advice, such as Don't defecate where you eat or Don't fornicate where you work. Basically, creating zones with‚ separation‚ between fundamentally different activ... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 03-10]

TechNewsSource - Sourcefire - Sourcefire Dubs 2010 The Year of the Channel with Greater Emphasis on Partner Relationship Building [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 03-10]

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TechNewsSource - Cisco - Further extending its Connected Physical Security portfolio, Cisco today announced the Cisco(R) IP Interoperability Collaboration System (IPICS) 4.0 to provide those on the front lines of safety and ... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 03-10]

DistributionDaily.net - Arrow Central Europe - Theobroma Systems and Arrow Electronics announce an EPC-compatible processor board that features the Freescale i.MX51 applications processor. The Embedded Platform Concept (EPC) ... [Source: DistributionDaily.net / 03-10]

The Microsoft Online Services Global Criminal Compliance Handbook (U.S. Domestic Version) (also can be found here, here, and here) outlines exactly what Microsoft will do upon police request. Here's a good summary of what's in it: The Global Criminal Complianc... [Source: Schneier on Security / 03-10]

The internet changing news from Cisco ( CSCO ) the tech world has been anxiously awaiting was unveiled today. Cisco's CRS-3 router has been heralded by CEO John Chambers as a system that can download the Library of Congress in a second,... [Source: Seeking Alpha / 03-10]

Security firm aims to make installing updates as painless and invisible as possible. Recent research shows that the typical PC user needs to install a security update roughly every five days in order to safely use Microsoft Windows and all of the third-party ... [Source: MIT Technology Review / 03-10]

Oracle JDeveloper - Recorded technical seminar [Source: DevelopmentScoop / 03-10]

SGI (NASDAQ:SGI), a global leader in HPC and data center solutions, today announced that the SGI Altix ICE integrated blade cluster is the leading performer in Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation's (SPEC) MPI2007 benchmark tests for high performance te... [Source: Business Wire / 03-10]

Brocade(R) (NASDAQ:BRCD) today announced that Digiplug, a leading provider of end-to-end digital distribution solutions for Rights Holders and Digital Content Retailers worldwide, has completed a project to digitize customer assets and build a new high perform... [Source: Business Wire / 03-10]

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the AMD Foundation, in support of AMD Changing the Game, has awarded a grant to the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. The $65,000 grant will be used to help fund the Alliance's new video game design category for the 2010 and... [Source: Business Wire / 03-10]

McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today warned consumers that scareware, or fake antivirus software, may be the most costly online scam in 2010, causing significant monetary loss and damage to users' computers. Scareware is the first scam outlined in McAfee's new Consum... [Source: Business Wire / 03-10]

Wind River today announced it has integrated support for HP BladeSystem carrier-grade and enterprise server blades into its industry-leading Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) operating system, tools and build system. Wind River Linux is the first registered CGL 4.0 so... [Source: Business Wire / 03-10]

Software AG and its partner Logica, a leading IT and business services company, today announced successful deployment of webMethods Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) for global energy provider GDF SUEZ. Using webMethods, Logica created a composite appli... [Source: Business Wire / 03-10]

Ciena(R) Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN) today announced that it has priced an offering of $375 million aggregate principal amount of its Convertible Senior Notes due 2015 (the Notes), in a private offering to qualified institutional buyers in reliance on an exempt... [Source: Business Wire / 03-10]

Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC) today announced that Lisa Rosenblum has been named executive vice president, government and public affairs. In this new position, Ms. Rosenblum will continue to serve as Cablevision's chief government affairs executi... [Source: Business Wire / 03-10]

Bottomline Technologies (NASDAQ: EPAY), a leading provider of collaborative payment, invoice and document automation solutions, today announced the availability of powerful new reporting tools: Analyzer and SmartReports. These integrated solutions allow Legal ... [Source: Business Wire / 03-10]

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Bell Microproducts Inc. (Nasdaq:BELM), one of the world's largest value-added distributors of storage and computing technology, today announced that employees of the company have donated over $57,000 to assist the Haitian humanitarian relief efforts. The compa... [Source: Globe NewsWire / 03-10]

QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC) today announced that Scott Genereux, senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing for QLogic, has been named a 2010 Channel Chief by Everything Channel's CRN. Channel Chiefs are leaders in creating effective channel program... [Source: Globe NewsWire / 03-10]

TechNet, the bipartisan policy and political network of CEOs that promotes the growth of the innovation economy, today called on the U.S. Senate to quickly approve the research and development tax credit which exp... [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 03-10]

Graybar, a leading distributor of electrical and communications products and provider of related supply chain management and logistics services, announced today that 2009 was another profitable year and that the company finished the year in strong financial co... [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 03-10]

NETGEAR, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTGR), a worldwide provider of technologically advanced, branded networking products, is scheduled to participate at the Credit Suisse Communications and Networking Conference in Boston. Patrick Lo, Chief Executive Officer, a [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 03-10]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) outdistanced storage vendors EMC and HP in revenue growth in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to new external disk storage systems market share data released by IDC. [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 03-10]

EE Times Group, a UBM company and the daily source of essential business and technology news, analysis and intelligence for the electronics industry's decision makers, today announced that ESC Silicon Valley 2010, being held at the McEnery Convention Center, S... [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 03-10]

Steve Jobs personally threatened to sue Sun Microsystems, Jonathan Schwartz says. Sun warded off that and a Microsoft threat with its own patent portfolio. [Source: CNET News.com / 03-10]

William Blair analyst Jason Ader has added NetApp (NTAP) to his firm's Better Values List. NetApp is one of an increasingly scarce breed of large-cap technology growth stories and a focused way to play the data center transformation trends, he writes in a rese... [Source: BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily / 03-10]

QLogic (QLGC) shares are trading higher in heavy trading on revived rumors that the storage hardware company could be a takeover target. Briefing.com writes that there is chatter that the company many have hired advisors following takeover interest. QLGC is up... [Source: BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily / 03-10]

Macquarie USA analyst Brad Zelnick late yesterday launched coverage of Novell (NOVL) with an Outperform rating and $7.50 price target. The recommendation follows last week's $5.75-a-share bid for the company by investment firm Elliott Associates. Zelnick's vie... [Source: BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily / 03-10]

Remember how Cisco Systems (CSCO) was promising to change the Internet forever? The magic today has been unveiled: it's a new router. Cisco this morning announced the CRS-3 carrier routing system, a new router intended to be the foundation of the next-generati... [Source: BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily / 03-10]

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A total of 40 SSD products were listed in the evaluation, mostly MLC SSDs with capacities of 64GB and 128GB. In the evaluation, we also compared the differences between SLC NAND Flash and MLC SSD, as well as the differences between SSD controllers. [Source: DRAMeXchange / 03-10]

Since launching the SSD report series earlier this year, we have been surveying and testing the SSD products on the market from different vendors. YoungTeam Technology is one of the well-recognized vendors in the Flash memory market, whose SUPER SSpeed 64GB an... [Source: DRAMeXchange / 03-10]

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TechNewsSource - Linux Foundation - Linux Foundation Opens Linux.com Store, Launches Community Design Contest New online store features exclusive merchandise that represents unique Linux culture and will include items designed by community [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 03-10]

TechNewsSource - Citrix - New Release Simplifies Management, Enhances Scalability and Expands High-Definition Support for Macs, Smart Phones and Microsoft Platforms [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 03-10]

TechNewsSource - Better Projects - Everyone that writes on the role of the business analyst eventually has to cover their take on what the role actually is about. One of the best artiels I read when doing research for my own position was by Jan Kusiak and Dere... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 03-10]

TechNewsSource - HP - HP today announced that Courier Corporation, North America's third-largest book manufacturer, has installed an HP T300 Color Inkjet Web Press to expand its service offerings to include digital printing. [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 03-10]

TechNewsSource - US-CERT Security Alerts - Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 03-10]

TechNewsSource - IBM - In a paper published in the American Chemical Society journal, Macromolecules, scientists from IBM and Stanford University detail discoveries that could lead to the development of new types of biodegradable, biocompatible plastics. The r... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 03-10]

TechNewsSource - Microsoft - Security - Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update addresses a privately reported vulnerability in Windows Movie Maker and Microsoft Producer 2003. Windows Live Movie Maker, which is available for Windows Vista an... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 03-10]

TechNewsSource - Microsoft - Security - Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves seven privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Excel. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially cra... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 03-10]

TechNewsSource - Gartner Blog Network - I thought MS10-015 would be interesting . Microsoft had to stop distributing the patch because machines that were infected with a specific rootkit were blue-screening after application of the patch . Microsoft resumed di... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 03-10]

TechNewsSource - CA - CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) today announced it was named Partner of the Year for the second straight year by leading IT reseller Programmer's Paradise. Also for the second straight year, CA ERwin(R) Modeling Suit... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 03-10]

TechNewsSource - Gartner Blog Network - We are nearing the end of the first quarter of calendar 2010 and a few things are becoming apparent.‚  2010 is a year of transition as the global economy begins to recover, strategies turn to a focus on growth and new te... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 03-10]

TechNewsSource - Gartner Blog Network - Wardialing phone lines to find holes is easy, wardialing VoIP openings harder. [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 03-10]

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DistributionDaily.net - Arrow Central Europe - FCI, a leading developer of connectors and interconnect systems, has developed a dedicated, micro-site for I/O(Input/Output) connector solutions. [Source: DistributionDaily.net / 03-10]

DistributionDaily.net - Arrow ECS IBM Group - Spotlight, March 8, 2010 Power Systems We want to focus on the fact that we had 80 participants in the Febuary 25th call and that if you missed it, please join the March 11th call. March 11, 2010, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm... [Source: DistributionDaily.net / 03-10]

DistributionDaily.net - Arrow ECS IBM Group - Sales, Solutions and Competitive Training www.ibm.com/systems/fielded March 8, 2010 This note outlines IBM Top Gun face-to-face and virtual learning sales training classes for the second quarter of 2010.‚ ‚  ‚  IBM... [Source: DistributionDaily.net / 03-10]

DistributionDaily.net - Arrow ECS IBM Group - A dynamic infrastructure is designed to help midsize companies reduce costs, better manage risk and improve service in today's highly interconnected and intelligent world. Find out more at the IBM Dynamic Infrastru... [Source: DistributionDaily.net / 03-10]

The Blackberry outage that RIM does not want to talk about continues to affect people on both sides of the Atlantic with outages reported in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Some people have been without service for more than 24 hours. [Source: ReadWriteWeb / 03-10]

Today, Cisco announced the CSR-3 product , a game-changing system to managing the network core. But for CEO John Chambers, the news is about market transition forces and being ready for the next generation of the Internet. [Source: ReadWriteWeb / 03-10]

NewsBlotter - The Gates Notes - For his lifetime contributions to computer science, the Association for Computing Machinery has honored Chuck Thacker with its prestigious Turing Award. Over four decades, Thacker's work at Xerox PARC and Microsoft have helped p... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 03-10]

NewsBlotter - Harvard Business Blogs - Sure, it's great to hang out at a hot-ticket business conference such as TED , Pop!Tech , or the annual meetings of The Clinton Global Initiative and the World Economic Forum . But these gatherings are steadily evolving b... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 03-10]

Google Inc. will sell the online services of other business software makers in an effort to fill its own product gaps and persuade more companies to rely on applications piped over the Internet. [Source: physorg.com / 03-10]

Microsoft on Tuesday warned that hackers are targeting a freshly-uncovered weakness in some earlier versions of its Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser software. [Source: physorg.com / 03-10]

Microsoft on Tuesday warned that hackers are targeting a freshly-uncovered weakness in some earlier versions of its Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser software. [Source: physorg.com / 03-10]

A Microsoft Corp. researcher won the $250,000 Turing Award, one of technology's most coveted prizes, on Tuesday for his work helping design and build what is widely considered the first modern personal computer. [Source: physorg.com / 03-10]

By looking at the latest electronic communication devices that have emerged over the past few years, it's clear that the trend of smaller, portable devices is strong and expected to continue. Yet while all these notebooks, netbooks, and tablet PCs are becoming... [Source: physorg.com / 03-10]

The Energizer Duo USB battery charger has been hiding a backdoor Trojan in its software that affects computers using Windows. According to Symantec the Trojan has probably been there since 10th May 2007. [Source: physorg.com / 03-10]

The video introduces to a whole new range of module solutions for motion control. Fairchild Semiconductor, leading global manufacturer of semiconductor power products, and EBV Elektronik, show how they improve EMI and power density as well as reduce time to ma... [Source: Avnet On Demand / 03-09]

Cyber attacks against Google ( GOOG ) have recently been in the news. Yahoo ( YHOO ) and other companies have been attacked, as well. Microsoft ( MSFT ), in turn, has gone to court to attack a network of malicious botnets. With a... [Source: Seeking Alpha / 03-09]

SOA World - CA, the IT management software maker, is becoming an aggressive player in the cloud computing arena. Observers are noting that the company's third cloud-related acquisition, of a firm called 3Tera, which developed cloud computing technology AppLogi... [Source: DevelopmentScoop / 03-09]

International Business Machines Corp., the biggest computer-services provider, is well- positioned to grow as the economy recovers, Chief Executive Officer Sam Palmisano said. [Source: Business Week - Technology / 03-09]

Taiwan-based NAND flash device makers including A-Data Technology, Transcend Information and Power Quotient International (PQI), and flash controller supplier Phison Electronics have begun to source NAND flash wafers from SanDisk, according to industry sources... [Source: DigiTimes (FEE) / 03-09]

Rackspace Hosting announces that the cloud-based applications division has plans to restructure its reseller program. [Source: Business Wire / 03-09]

(ISC)2 won award for Best Professional Certification Program at the 13th annual SC Magazine awards last week at RSA 2010. [Source: Business Wire / 03-09]

Westell Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: WSTL), a leading provider of broadband products, outside plant telecommunications equipment and conferencing services, today announced that the company has entered into an amendment to its credit facility agreement with the ... [Source: Business Wire / 03-09]

CompTIA introduces a new series of online learning courses to help high-tech workers meet today's ever expanding and complex job requirements. [Source: Business Wire / 03-09]

Digium(R) Inc., announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with SYNNEX Corporation, a business process services company that services IT resellers. [Source: Business Wire / 03-09]

IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee is celebrating its 30th anniversary as an active standards development organization. [Source: Business Wire / 03-09]

Monash University, Australia's most internationalized university, has selected BMC Software's BSM platform to support a major ICT shared services initiative. [Source: Business Wire / 03-09]

CloudShare today announced that over one thousand sales, IT, training, and other business users have adopted CloudShare Pro, a streamlined version of its cloud-based platform for creating and sharing multiple cloud-based copies of complex IT environments in as... [Source: Market Wire - Computer / 03-09]

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced that VMware Express will hit the road this week. VMware Express is a state-of-the-art mobile datacenter, demo lab ... [Source: Market Wire - Computer / 03-09]

TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced that Discovery Holdings Ltd. -- a leading financial services institution -- has selected TIBCO's messaging, business process management (BPM) and service oriented architecture (SOA) software to improve its com... [Source: Market Wire - Computer / 03-09]

Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq:INFA), the world's number one independent leader in data integration software, today announced that Earl Fry, CFO, chief administration officer & EVP, global customer support and Tony Young, senior vice president and CIO, will p... [Source: Globe NewsWire / 03-09]

Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq:INFA), the world's number one independent provider of enterprise data integration software, today announced significant support among its strategic alliance partners for its recent acquisition of Siperian, a leader in Master Dat... [Source: Globe NewsWire / 03-09]

EnterpriseDB, the enterprise Postgres company, continues its free webinar series with several additional sessions aimed at assisting decision-makers, database managers and administrators with the selection, performance tuning, and security of open source data [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 03-09]

The UK2 Group, www.uk2group.com, a global leader of web hosting solutions today announced that after one year of offering a next generation model of VPS cloud hosting, it has garnered thousands of new deployments and clients and added new technological improve... [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 03-09]

ClearCube Technology, the leader in centralized computing, today announced the launch of the I9424 PCoIP(R) zero client with integrated smart card reader. After experiencing firsthand the rapidly increasing demand from federal customers for a VMware Ready [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 03-09]

QNAP Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of world class NAS servers, NVR Video Surveillance Systems, and Network-based Video Players today expanded their popular Business Series Turbo NAS lineup with two new 1U ra... [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 03-09]

Fluke Networks today announced the availability of version 5.4 for the OptiView(R) Network Analyzer, further advancing OptiView as the leading analysis solution to speed and simplify network and application troubleshooting across wired and wireless networks [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 03-09]

Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) is pleased to announce three of its North American executives have been named as 2010 CRN Channel Chiefs: Brian Wiser, senior vice president of sales and marketing, Justin Crotty, vice president of services and Kirk Robinson, vi [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 03-09]

Building on its Elevate America program to provide technology training to help prepare people for 21st-century jobs, Microsoft Corp. today announced an initiative to bring together a coalition of public, private and nonprofit organizations to give vetera [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 03-09]

T-Systems, Deutsche Telekom's corporate customer unit and a leading provider of information and communications technologies (ICT), today announced a global services partnership with SAP AG (NYSE: SAP).  The corresponding cont [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 03-09]

EMC(R) Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced EMC SourceOne Email Supervisor which enables customers to cost-effectively monitor inbound and outbound e-mail and instant messages for compli [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 03-09]