Adobe on Tuesday released security patches for both Flash Player and Shockwave Player, addressing a total of 19 vulnerabilities affecting the two products. New stand-alone versions of Flash Player 11 were released for Windows, Mac, Linux ...
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Intel today released a version of its SSD-based Cache Acceleration Software (CAS) for Linux servers, which, the firm said, can offer up to 18 times the performance for read-intensive applications, such as on-line transaction processing ...
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Rob Van Winkle, AKA Vanilla Ice, has teamed up with New-Jersey based Capitol Lighting to design a chandelier range. The rapper, best known for his number one hit ‘Ice Ice Baby’ in 1990, worked with the manufacturer to come up ...
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According to a number of reports, Apple is experimenting with watch-like wearable devices with some smartphone capabilities, as the company looks at new product categories to populate. Apple has discussed the design with manufacturing ...
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RSA last week launched its Security Analytics solution in the UAE, promising to leverage big data in order to provide the visibility and context required to help defend against advanced security threats. The new Security Analytics fuses ...
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Cisco CEO John Chambers has reiterated the company’s ambitions to become the biggest company in IT after the firm posted higher revenue and profit in its fiscal second quarter. For the quarter ended on January 26, Cisco posted ...
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du announced on Wednesday that it will deploy the foundation layer for its virtualised infrastructure based on Cisco’s Unified Computing Systems (UCS) and Data Centre Switches. The move is aimed at bolstering du’s position as ...
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Dell customers have shown mixed reactions to the firm’s decision to go private, and are watching developments closely as they consider the next steps in their product procurement plans. Some of Dell’s customers think ...
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Social network LinkedIn and the Etisalat Group on Monday announced a partnership that will see the teclo use LinkedIn’s talent solutions to improve its hiring strategy in the region. Etisalat will acquire its top talent using the ...
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Oracle has said that an appeals court should rule, as a matter of law, that Google’s commercial use of Java in a market where Oracle already competed was not fair use. “This Court should not stop at finding that Google ...
Global smartphone sales went up by 38 percent in the fourth quarter year over year, Gartner reported on Wednesday, with Samsung ending 2012 in the top position for both smartphone sales and overall mobile phone sales. Even with the ...
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The National Transport Commission (NTC) has advised of the passing of its chief executive Nick Dimopoulos. Mr Dimopoulos passed away on 8 February 2013 after an illness, surrounded by his family. Mr Dimopoulos’s professional career ...
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Toyota Industries Corporation (TICO) has maintained its position as the global number one supplier of material handling equipment for a record 12th year, according to German trade media. Respected German material handling magazines ...
Dignitaries at the official opening of stage one of Kraft Foods Asia Pacific Confectionery Centre of Excellence at Kraft’s manufacturing site in Ringwood. Multinational food company Kraft Foods has opened stage one of its Asia ...
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Symantec on Wednesday began offering multi-algorithm SSL certificates for Web servers that go beyond traditional crypto to include what’s known as the Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA). The firm ...
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