Mon, November 16, 2009 - Cisco has raised its bid for Norwegian video conferencing vendor Tandberg to 19 billion Norwegian Kroner (US$3.4 billion), up from $3.0 billion, but says it will raise its price no further.
Sun, November 15, 2009 - The World Wide Web Foundation, Tim Berners-Lee's latest brainchild, is now officially open for business and involved with two initial projects, as it embarks on using the Web to empower people worldwide and bring about positive socio-economic change.
Fri, November 13, 2009 - We had a blockbuster deal this week, with Hewlett-Packard saying it plans to buy 3Com, and a blockbuster settlement, with Advanced Micro Devices and Intel ending a long-running legal dispute. By midnight tonight, Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers are supposed to file a revised book-search settlement proposal, which could add to our top stories list for the week. For now, though, what follows are our top IT headlines of the moment.
Fri, November 13, 2009 - HP ProCurve GM Marius Haas reveals the behind-the-scenes story of how HP and 3Com came together in a $2.7 billion merger that combines Ethernet switching, security and other data center gear.
Fri, November 13, 2009 - One in every four people on the Internet are now using Mozilla's open-source Firefox browser, a Web metrics company said this week.
Fri, November 13, 2009 - Internet security experts say that misconfigured DSL and cable modems are worsening a well-known problem with the Internet's DNS (domain name system), making it easier for hackers to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against their victims.
Fri, November 13, 2009 - Next week, Microsoft will be revealing details of a new development tool, codenamed Volicity, that speeds the performance of enterprise and Web applications. A session at the Professional Developer’s Conference, held in Los Angles next week, will be dedicated to the new tool.
Fri, November 13, 2009 - Google is hoping to make Web pages download up to twice as quickly using SPDY, a new application-layer protocol it's experimenting with, the company said in a blog post.
Thu, November 12, 2009 - HP and 3Com fit remarkably well together when considering the target markets that drove them together in this week's blockbuster $2.7 billion deal: core Ethernet switching and China. But most of the rest – low-end, SMB and edge switching, plus wireless networking – faces considerable overlap.
Thu, November 12, 2009 - Hackers can exploit a flaw in Adobe's Flash to compromise nearly every Web site that allows users to upload content, including Google's Gmail, then launch silent attacks on visitors to those sites, security researchers said today.
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