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Microsoft Makes ‘Giant’ Anti-Spyware Acquisition
Microsoft Corp. has bought into the anti-spyware business. Just two months after Chairman Bill Gates dropped a strong hint that Microsoft planned to do something about the spyware scourge, the Redmond, Wash., company announced the acquisition of Giant Company Software, a New York-based startup with a highly rated anti-spyware application. Financial terms of the purchase…
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IBM Makes Progress with Storage ‘Bricks’
IBM has made progress over the past year in developing a new water-cooled, modular mass storage system designed to be highly fault-tolerant and make more efficient use of electric power and cooling capacity. Called CIB (Collective Intelligent Bricks), the storage system is under development at IBM’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif. IBM officials…
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Holes Found in Cisco, Veritas, Samba Products
Thursday was a big day for vulnerability announcements, but not necessarily for big vulnerabilities. Cisco on Thursday announced two problems with its products, one of which had the potential to be serious. A potentially serious problem with Samba appeared on Bugtraq, and Veritas reported a problem with Backup Exec versions 8 and 9. None of…
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Oracle Launches Low-Cost Storage Initiative
Oracle Corp. is using the same “tie together cheap boxes” mindset that it cooked up for its Database 10g push, but this time, it’s applying the idea to cheap storage arrays. The company earlier this week announced the Resilient Low-Cost Storage Initiative, in which it’s teaming up with storage vendors Apple Computer Inc., Dell Inc.,…
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Autodesk, Microsoft Ink Cross-Licensing Deal
Autodesk Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have entered into a cross-licensing agreement that gives both companies access to a broad range of one another’s patent portfolios in a move that should allow each company to broaden its product offerings. The two companies will announce the deal on Thursday, which will promote the exchange and implementation of…
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Will Microsoft’s Spyware Buy Cast a ‘Giant’ Shadow?
Microsoft’s sudden acquisition of highly rated anti-spyware startup Giant Company Software has set the cat among the pigeons. As competitors rush to spin the news as a “validation” of the nascent anti-spyware sector, analysts predict that Redmond is working on an enterprise-class product combining spyware- and virus-fighting capabilities. “We believe Microsoft will come out with…
