New Threats Bring New Opportunities For Websense, Symantec

According to the Websense 2010 Threat Report, the number of malicious websites increased 111.4% over the year in 2010. What’s more, 79.9% websites with malicious code were legitimate sites that had been compromised. As cybercrime continued to grow, 52% of data-stealing attacks were conducted over the Web and 34% of malicious Web/HTTP attacks included data-stealing

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News Corp, NYT Eyeing More Digital Subscription Revenue

According to ComScore and the Newspaper Association of America, 62% of all adult Internet users in the U.S. accessed newspaper sites last quarter. Worldwide, 105.3 million unique visitors went to U.S. newspaper Web sites in the fourth quarter of last year. The visits accounted for an average 4.1 billion page views per month and 3.4

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What’s Next For Motorola?

Gartner’s latest report on worldwide smartphone operating systems (OS) puts Android in the No.2 position, overtaking RIM and iOS. From a 3.9% share in 2009, Android has leapt to a massive 22.7%. Its success comes from being part of the smartphone strategy of multiple vendors, including Samsung and Motorola. Motorola has managed a successful turnaround

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Is Cisco Losing Focus?

Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) this week reported second quarter results that beat estimates, but the company gave a disappointing outlook because it expects public sector spending to worsen over the next few quarters.

ARM Eyes Computing

For an IP licensing company, ARM Holdings (NASDAQ:ARMH) is doing extremely well. ARM licenses its low-power chip design to over 230 chip manufacturers, and more than 90% of the mobile phone chips are based on its low-power design. With the design for Apple’s iPad under its belt, it has carved a niche for itself in

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Virtualization Reigns

According to IDC, more than 23% of all servers shipped in 2014 will actively support virtual machine technology, and more than 70% of all server workloads installed on new shipments in 2014 will reside in a virtual machine. The researcher estimates that more than $19 billion will be spent on server hardware in support of

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Concur Becomes A Consolidator

Last quarter, we saw how SaaS companies Concur (NASDAQ:CNQR) and NetSuite (NYSE:N) were on a growth track but had yet to get on to the consolidation path. But where there is growth, consolidation follows. And sure enough, Concur recently announced plans to acquire TripIt, a mobile trip manager, for about $120 million.

Netflix Should Not Get Too Comfortable

According to Digital Entertainment Group, in 2010 total revenues from DVD, Blu-ray, and digital sales of movies and television shows in the U.S. fell 3% over the year to $18.8 billion. In 2010, sales and rentals of standard DVDs fell 11% over the year to $14 billion. In the same period, Blu-ray sales and rentals grew 53% over

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