Microsoft is apparently in talks with Israeli cybersecurity startup Aorato, which was founded by veterans of the IDF with a focus on Active Directory, for close to $200 million in the next two months.
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Swedish start-up Polar Rose plans to make its face recognition service publicly available on the Web in the second quarter of 2008 as it tries to become a must-have tool for sorting visual content. The...
A private firm funded by Google Inc launched its Web-based DNA test in Europe on Tuesday, hoping to build on a successful start in the United States, where the $999 service went on sale in...
Sun Microsystems will plunk down $1 billion to buy MySQL, the maker of a popular open-source database. Sun said Wednesday that it will pay about $800 million in cash for MySQL's privately held stock and...
The Abu Dhabi government's investment arm paid $622 million for an 8.1% stake in Advanced Micro Devices Incorporated. A unit of Mubadala Development Company received 49 million newly-issued AMD shares at a closing price of...
Indian technology firm NetAlter Software has unveiled details of what it claims is a virus and spam-free "internet alternative". According to the company, it has patented a "true P2P" system that offers a domain-less alternative...
Internet monitoring firm Websense has claimed that IT management firm EDB is hosting malicious files on its web page. EDB handles web hosting and outsourcing for a variety of industry sectors, including banking. Websense has...
Weta Digital, the New Zealand-based visual effects company behind such box-office hits as King Kong and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, today announced a licensing agreement with Microsoft that will see it use Redmond's...
A Chinese firm is suing the internet giant Google over its Chinese name, saying it is too much like its own name and is harming its business. Google's Chinese subsidiary has transliterated its name to...
Virgin Media, the UK's leading cable television company, is set to be taken private for more than £5.5bn. Carlyle, one of the world's leading private equity groups, has made a preliminary offer of between...
Electronic Arts has confirmed that it will pay about $170m for a 15% stake in Chinese online games operator The9, the sole operator in China of what is believed to be the world's most profitable...
As a part of efforts to develop weaponry that could reduce the risks to its forces from hand-to-hand fighting against Palestinian or Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas, an Israeli defence firm has unveiled the VIPeR. Roughly the...
Cisco Systems bought selected assets of Utah Street Networks, a seven-person San Francisco company founded in 2003, and in this way effectively continues to buy its way into social networking. The San Jose, California-based company...
Mobile phone network 3 has abolished roaming charges for its UK customers in seven nations including Italy, Australia and the Republic of Ireland. Its users will no longer be charged extra for making or receiving...
Rating it "Critical", Secunia has validated the exploit, originally posted by LMH via MoKB (Month of Kernel Bugs). "This issue is remotely exploitable as Safari loads DMG files from external sources (ex. visiting an URL)....
Train passengers will soon be able to buy tickets on their mobile phone. Chiltern Railways, which operates from London through Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire to the West Midlands, plans to deliver tickets to mobile phones....
Microsoft is still talking with partners who are complaining about how the Redmond, Wash. developer has set up Windows Vista's security, but it won't budge from its decision to lock down access to the kernel,...
Another file-sharing software maker has been found guilty of causing copyright infringement. A US judge has said the Morpheus software produced by StreamCast breaks the law. The ruling is another victory for the entertainment industry,...
After BearShare, i2Hub, WinMX, and Grokster comes eDonkey. The Recording Industry Association of America has fined MetaMachine, owners of eDonkey, $30 million for "mass copyright infringement". The settlement requires MetaMachine to cease the distribution of...
Virgin Trains is testing high-speed wireless access on its West Coast service, using a range of technologies to enable passengers to browse the internet uninterrupted. The train operator says its mix of WiMax, WiFi, high-speed...
Adware maker 180solutions claims to be a key witness in the case against three Dutchmen accused of running a botnet which controlled 1.5m PCs. The group allegedly used the largest zombie army ever created to...
Microsoft has launched a case against a German man believed to be the linchpin of a spam gang. The software maker's legal complaint was lodged against an unnamed company in the North...
Indian technology firm Encore Software will soon offer a low-priced Linux-based mobile computer, the company announced on Tuesday. The new machine, called Mobilis, is powered by Intel's XScale PXA255 200/400MHz processor and...
"Hello? Hello? Yes, I'm on the plane!" This sound may soon be coming to an aircraft near you. Airbus, the European aeronautics giant, has signed a new deal which will give companies buying its A380...
Thanks to Mr. Peabody for posting this in the Neowin BPN. Search giant Google said Wednesday that it has acquired Keyhole, a company specializing in Web-based software that allows people to view satellite...
Computer group Apple Latest News about Apple has dropped law firm Linklaters from an ongoing legal battle with the Beatles' record label Apple Corp over the use of the Apple name to sell music-related products....
Eighteen-year-old Sven Jaschan, the teen accused of creating the Sasser worm that infected millions of computers around the world, has been taken on by the Securepoint computer firm based in Lueneburg, northern Germany. There, he...
Microsoft has restated that none of its studios are involved in developing games for the Nintendo DS, after members of Rare's Game Boy Advance development team rekindled speculation that they were considering projects for the...
A California company has contacted the FBI after a video showing a U.S. hostage being held captive by a militant Islamist group appeared on its Web site this week, an employee confirmed Thursday. ...
Security software maker Symantec Corp. announced Wednesday it is acquiring the anti-spam firm Brightmail Inc. in a cash deal valued at about $370 million. Symantec said the acquisition will complement its security products. Unsolicited e-mail,...
Hidden code in e-mail messages is increasingly being used to track the success of spam campaigns, according to a warning by an antispam technology company. Up to 50 percent of all spam released in the...
Microsoft faces a law suit from online gaming company Mythic Entertainment over the alleged use of its trademark in Vole game Mythica. Mythic started legal action in mid-November, but after a brief...
A SWEDISH SUPPLIER will introduce an amazing 100Mbit/sec broadband connection for 895 kroner in April next year. That's about £70 a month, and that speed is in both directions. Bredbandsbolaget will cap downloads to 300GB...
The Web address firm will shell out $140m for Guardent, as it seeks to expand into computer security. Internet services and Web address provider VeriSign will acquire Guardent for $140m (£80m) in cash and stock,...
A federal judge will consider on Monday whether a San Diego company may continue to take advantage of an obscure feature in Windows software to send "pop-up" messages promoting its own software to block such...
Dawning said today that it will fashion the fastest supercomputer in China with a machine capable of delivering 10,000 GFLOPS and using 2000 AMD Opteron microprocessors. Reports said the Dawning 4000A will use...
Storage systems maker EMC said Tuesday it will buy Legato Systems in a stock deal valued at $1.3 billion. EMC will purchase Mountain View, Calif.-based Legato for its storage management software. This is...
U.S. media titan AOL Time Warner is selling a 64 percent stake in its China TV unit to a firm backed by Asia's richest man Li Ka-shing for US$37 million, Li's tom.com said on Wednesday....
Britain's only operational 3G mobile network has been dealt a blow after its partner, Dutch phone firm KPN, turned down a request for a £150m loan. The 3 network, controlled by Hong...
Cisco Systems plans to acquire privately held Okena in a deal worth about $154 million, the companies said Friday. Okena, based in Waltham, Mass., makes network security software that intercepts all operating...
