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Bad day at office for RIMRESEARCH IN MOTION needed to report a blow-out second quarter to meet lofty expectations for the BlackBerry maker, but it didn't, and the stock was punished.
Australian IT viernes, 25 de septiembre de 2009Telstra SMS alerts could save livesA NATIONAL warning system will send text alerts to the mobile phones of residents threatened by bushfires.
Australian IT viernes, 25 de septiembre de 2009Adobe woos govt departmentsFOLLOWING its $20 million NSW education deal, Adobe
systems has begun high-level discussions with other states and territories in a bid to repeat its success.
Australian IT viernes, 25 de septiembre de 2009Aobo Mac OS X Keylogger 3.0.1 Is Released by Aobo SoftwareLONDON, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Aobo
software, the global award-winning provider of Mac Monitoring software, announced that Aobo Mac OS X Keylogger 3.0.1 is released.
prnewswire.com viernes, 25 de septiembre de 2009RIM grows quarterly revenues 37%, net profit declines(Telecompaper) Research In Motion reported revenues for its fiscal second quarter to 29 August of USD 3.42 billion, up 37 percent from a year earlier. RIM shipped 8.3 million BlackBerry devices in the quarter, and a net 3.8 million BlackBerry subscriber accounts were activated, for a total 32 million worldwide. Net profit fell to USD 475.6 million or USD 0.83 per share, from USD 495.5 million or USD 0.86 per share a year ago. The result includes a charge of USD 112.8 million for settling its litigation with Visto. RIM forecast third-quarter sales of USD 3.60-3.85 billion, with a gross margin of around 43 percent. Net subscriber additions should reach 4.0-4.3 billion in the thiree months to November, while EPS is estimated at USD 1.00-1.08. RIM finished August with USD 2.50 billion in cash, after operating cash flow of USD 564 million in the quarter.
dmeurope.com viernes, 25 de septiembre de 2009Korean regulator to slash mobile internet fees(Telecompaper) Korea's telecommunications regulator is expected to lower the price of internet services on mobile devices by the end of this year, with the upcoming
launch of Apple's iPhone and the general trend towards such services. The Korea Communications Commission will cut mobile phone rates by 20 percent by next year, and additional details of the price cut will be announced around the Chuseok holidays, said Choi See-joong, chairman of the KCC, during a National Assembly telecommunications committee meeting, the JoongAng Daily
reports. The main focus in the KCC's cutting of mobile phone and wireless internet service fees will involve banning mobile phone subsidies in exchange for cheaper rates and pushing operators to expand payment plans to include reasonable payment packages for smartphones. The KCC also plans to introduce MVNOs in which non-telecommunication companies will be able to provide wireless services by borrowing bandwidth from mobile carriers. The KCC will allow the
dmeurope.com viernes, 25 de septiembre de 2009EMC Receives 'Strong Positive' Rating in Leading Analyst Firm's Storage Services MarketScope ReportHOPKINTON, Mass., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that EMC received a "Strong Positive" rating in Gartner's report entitled "MarketScope for Storage Services, North America, 2009."(1) EMC was one of 11 vendors evaluated in the report, and received the highest possible rating, "Strong Positive."
prnewswire.com viernes, 25 de septiembre de 2009Communications & Power Industries to Help Bring 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa(TM) to Millions of Football FansPALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Communications & Power Industries, Inc. (CPI) has been selected by Sentech Limited to provide high-power amplifiers (HPAs) to be used in broadcasting the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa(TM) to millions of football fans. CPI, a subsidiary of CPI International, Inc. (Nasdaq: CPII), is a leading provider of microwave, radio frequency, power and control solutions for critical defense, communications, medical, scientific and other applications. Sentech is a State-owned,
broadband network business that supplies communications services and solutions to wholesale and retail customers in certain markets in South Africa and the rest of the African continent.
prnewswire.com viernes, 25 de septiembre de 2009Ants Vs. Worms: New Computer Security Mimics NatureWINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Sept .25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the never-ending battle to protect computer networks from intruders, security experts are deploying a new defense modeled after one of nature's hardiest creatures -- the ant.
prnewswire.com viernes, 25 de septiembre de 2009Businesses fail to appreciate the value of ITMore than half of tech professionals feel their IT
systems, processes and services are failing to provide the value expected to their business. In a survey of 1,500 IT professionals, two-thirds of respondents (64 per cent) said the main problem was their inability to provide the rest of the business with quantifiable metrics related to the actual value IT services and assets are delivering.
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