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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. December 2012: HP says it is cooperating with the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the UK’s Serious Fraud Office in an investigation relating to Autonomy.

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Microsoft, its partners, and the ‘last-mile problem’

Computerworld Vertical IT

Then, around 2003, Microsoft developed a product that bundled many of the items a small business might need. Combining a Windows server and an email server (along with a copy of Outlook for each licensed user), the company dangled its newfangled small business suite with a deep discount — if you migrated from any other server-like platform.

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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

GeekWire

Charlie Bell, a former Amazon Web Services executive, is now the leader of Microsoft’s newly formed, 10,000-person security engineering organization. He absorbed the 477-page technical tome in one weekend and returned to Redmond ready to change how Microsoft made software — prioritizing security and reliability over new features.

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How to make Facebook secure for organizational use: no more excuses! - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Financial market traders started using IM because it was useful, but banks were concerned about security and audit trails. Services then became available that provided secure, auditable IM. This is turning out to be a very similar story to instant messaging in financial services. The same thing is happening with social networks.

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Warner Bros. roils game industry with patent on Nemesis gameplay mechanic by Kirkland’s Monolith

GeekWire

Analysis: In what has proved to be a controversial move among game developers, Warner Brothers has secured a U.S. For example, the Japanese company Namco Bandai has a patent on record for its series Katamari Damacy , which was filed in 2003 and granted in 2008. Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor. (WB WB press image).

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Social networks, intelligence, and homeland security - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

On one-level “network-centric warfare” (see for example the US Department Defence report to Congress on this) has grown to prominence – or even predominance – in military strategic thinking over the last four years. m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[ more ] Categories Business relationships(47) Collaboration(51) Enterprise 2.0(134)

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

When including the cost of software, hardware, and licensing/support, the cost per terabyte (TB) of an MPP system is estimated at tens of thousands of dollars [4]. Analysis Architecture Big Data CTO Cyber Security DoD and IC Apache Hadoop bigdata Hadoop' At these prices, a one PB system can cost tens of millions of dollars.

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