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McAfee announced that it has completed the acquisition of Reconnex for $46 million in cash. Through the acquisition, McAfee further enhances its position in proactive security and risk management solutions.
McAfee can now bring automated, centrally managed and adaptive protection to its existing customer base and further help users enhance the value of their current investments. As previously announced, Reconnex's technologies will be incorporated under McAfee's Data Protection product business unit, headed by Gerhard Watzinger.

Watzinger commented:

This acquisition builds on the McAfee data protection portfolio, solving one of the biggest challenges customers face; namely what information to protect and who should have access to it. Reconnex's differentiated approach to data protection and advanced innovative learning enables McAfee to offer a next-generation data protection solution that is steps ahead of its competition. And with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator's extensive install base, we can address a broader range of threats to data than anyone else on the market today.

McAfee anticipates that Reconnex's products will be integrated into McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) in 2009.

Source: Net-Security

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By JR Raphael
TechNewsWorld
06/27/08 10:51 AM PT

Microsoft is facing a new wave of resistance against its Vista operating system, thanks to reports that one of its most well-known partners hasn't made the upgrade. An anonymous source -- described as having direct knowledge of the situation -- told The New York Times Intel found no compelling case to switch its own employees' computers over to Vista. The decision followed an in-depth analysis of costs and benefits by Intel engineers, according to the Times' source. [More...]

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Yahoo! shares tumble, Google beckons
By Gavin Clarke in San Francisco

Yahoo! has terminated all acquisition talks with Microsoft, today saying Microsoft was only interested in the internet provider's search business. Yahoo! shares fell 10 per cent today to $23.52, from yesterday's closing price of $26.52.

The beleaguered company is hitching its fortunes to the Google juggernaut with a search, advertising and IM deal. Google said Thursday it's providing Yahoo! access to its AdSense service in the US and Canada with move towards interoperability between their competing IM systems. [More..]

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By Wayne Richardson | Published: May 01, 2008 - 09:23AM CT

SALT LAKE CITY—Last August, the nail was poised over SCO's coffin when Judge Dale Kimball ruled that Novell never relinquished the copyrights to UNIX, but nobody really knew when it would be driven home. The decision meant that SCO could be on the hook for as much as $20 million in unpaid royalties. Not long afterwards, SCO filed for bankruptcy, but that Chapter 11 filing was only able to delay the inevitable trial to determine how much Novell was owed. That long-awaited trial began this week, and Ars was on hand to report.

Last year, the court ruled that Novell owned the copyrights to original AT&T UNIX source code and derivatives, including SVRX (System V, Release X), and threw out the case. Now, the countersuit brought by Novell is being heard, and should be finished up this week. Novell has repeatedly said it has no interest in suing Linux users over UNIX copyrights, which would be against its interests now that Novell has ties to the open-source community through openSUSE and SUSE Enterprise Linux Server and Desktop distributions.

[Full Article at ars technica]

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By Chris Maxcer
LinuxInsider
Part of the ECT News Network
04/09/08 4:00 AM PT

Microsoft is continuing to make good on its promises of openness. The Redmond software behemoth posted an additional 14,000 pages of preliminary versions of technical documentation of Microsoft protocols that should help third-party developers -- including open source developers -- build more interoperable applications. [More...]

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By FISNIK ABRASHI, Associated Press Writer
Sun Mar 9, 1:11 PM ET

CAMP SALERNO, Afghanistan - A 19-year-old medic from Texas will become the first woman in Afghanistan and only the second female soldier since World War II to receive the Silver Star, the nation's third-highest medal for valor.

Army Spc. Monica Lin Brown saved the lives of fellow soldiers after a roadside bomb tore through a convoy of Humvees in the eastern Paktia province in April 2007, the military said. Army Spc. Monica Lin Brown saved the lives of fellow soldiers after a roadside bomb tore through a convoy of Humvees in the eastern Paktia province in April 2007, the military said.[Read Full Article...]

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By Grace V. Jean
National Defense
02/23/08 4:00 AM PT

As they prepare for their daily patrols around Baghdad, soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division sync up their iPods, not with songs and movies, but with a laundry list of missions and audio files containing pre-recorded phrases in Iraqi Arabic or Kurdish. Loaded with special software, the music players help them communicate with the populace and learn the local culture. [More...]

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Thunderbird is go

By John Leyden
Published Wednesday 20th February 2008 11:48 GMT

The Mozilla Foundation has opened up a new subsidiary tasked with developing the Thunderbird email software package.

Mozilla Messaging will initially focus on the development of Thunderbird 3, which promises improved features including integrated calendaring and better search. The new non-profit organization is also interested in developing instant messaging software. [More ...]

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By Erika Morphy
TechNewsWorld
01/28/08 6:30 AM PT

Desktops crash all the time, but e-mail is forever. Or so some 14,000 customers of Charter Communications may have thought until they tried to log on recently and found their messages and photos gone and never to return. It was a software glitch during routine maintenance that caused Charter to permanently dump the 14,000 active accounts. [More...]

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By Suzanne Tindal
Special to CNET News.com

Published: January 14, 2008, 5:24 AM PST

Microsoft has made Vista's Service Pack 1 near-final "release candidate" available for download to the general public, after initially choosing to restrict it to 15,000 beta testers when it debuted last week.

According to a blog by ZDNet.com's Mary Jo Foley, a Microsoft representative said the build contained a "number of bugs that testers encountered in previous prerelease versions of SP1."

The update is largely a collection of bug fixes and performance and compatibility improvements, but includes some minor new features.

http://www.news.com/Near-final-Vista-SP1-goes-public/2100-1016_3-6225945.html?tag=newsmap

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