Fahmida Y. Rashid

EFI Updates PrintMe Mobile Printing Platform

EFI has introduced enhancements to its PrintMe mobile printing service that works from any Internet-enabled device. PrintMe allows users to upload their documents and securely print them on any PrintMe-enabled printer, regardless of location. PrintMe supports users on any device with Web access, including laptops, desktops and mobile devices like tablets and smartphones, EFI said […]

Riverbed Acquires Cace Technologies to Strengthen Cascade Business

Riverbed Technology acquired Cace Technologies, adding packet capture and analysis tools for wireless and wireline networks to its WAN optimization portfolio, the company said. The acquisition was announced on Oct. 21 and Riverbed’s senior executives discussed the deal on its third-quarter results earnings call. Riverbed did not give any financial specifics, but Randy Gottfried, Riverbed’s […]

Pentagon to Help Homeland Security Fight Cyber-attacks on U.S. Soil

The Obama administration changed federal policy allowing the military to step in and assist during a cyber-attack on domestic soil, reported the New York Times on Oct. 21. With the exception of natural disasters, the military cannot deploy units within the country’s borders. Even for natural disasters, a presidential order is required before moving the […]

Nokia Announces Layoffs, Restructuring, Despite Q3 Profit

Nokia will cut 1,800 jobs and restructure its smartphone business, despite a strong third-quarter performance, the Finnish phone manufacturer disclosed on Oct. 20. Reporting a third quarter profit of 529 million euros, or $741 million, Nokia surpassed analyst expectations of a profit of less than 300 million euros, as polled by Dow Jones Newswires. This […]

Botnets Multiplying as Spammers Prepare for Holiday Sales

Spammers are bombarding users with malware-laden spam in order to build up new botnets, just in time for the holiday season, security researchers said Oct. 19. The Google Postini Services team analyzed spam and virus data collected during the third quarter by Google’s security and archiving services, powered by Postini. The results, posted on the […]

Internet User Population to Hit 2 Billion by End of 2010: Survey

By the end of 2010, there will be 2 billion Internet users worldwide, according to a report issued by the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency. The report “The World in 2010: ICT facts and figures,” released on Oct. 20, found the number of Internet users worldwide has doubled over the past five years, […]

Western Digital Launches 3TB HDD, Largest Internal Drive on Market

Western Digital has unveiled what it claims is the largest capacity internal SATA hard disk drive on the market. As part of the WD Caviar Green family, the disk drive will ship in 3TB and 2.5TB sizes, the company said. The WD Caviar Green 2.5TB and 3TB hard drives will be used primarily for use […]

Kemp Technologies Adds Hyper-V Support to Virtual Load Balancer

Kemp Technologies added Microsoft Hyper-V support to its virtual load balancing appliance, which will provide customers running Microsoft applications with load balancing, scalability and high availability, the company said on Oct. 19. The Virtual LoadMaster now supports hypervisors from both Microsoft and VMware. Xen hypervisors will likely be supported in “a year or two,” said […]

Hacked Kaspersky Download Site Directs Users to Fake Antivirus

Hackers have caused serious embarrassment for a major security technology company. Kaspersky Lab’s Website was hacked over the weekend, sending customers looking for security software to an external download page pushing counterfeit software. When users tried to download software from Kaspersky on Oct. 17, they were redirected to a malware site that tricked users into […]

SAP NetWeaver, American Express Team Up on Automated Payments Module

American Express and SAP will collaborate on an integrated product that simplifies payments automation, the two companies said on Oct. 19. The new offering will combine American Express’s Buyer Initiated Payments product with SAP’s PI (Process Integration) technology available on the SAP NetWeaver platform. The integration of American Express technology into SAP Netweaver will allow […]