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• Biggest tech industry layoffs of 2012

  By Bob Brown | 30 May, 2012 20:25

  Research in Motion, reeling as its BlackBerry takes a beating from the Apple iPhone and assorted Android smartphones, is expected to lay off anywhere from 2000 to 6000 employees to cut costs and turn around its financial fortunes. While the exact number of layoffs from RIM's 16,000-plus staff remains to be confirmed, the restructured company appears headed for a high rank on this year's list of tech industry layoffs.

• Juniper packs 30 new features into Web security software

  By Jim Duffy | 30 May, 2012 10:33

  Juniper Networks this week unveiled enhancements to the Web security software it obtained via the acquisition of Mykonos Software in February.

• Google-Motorola Mobility merger will be done this week

  By Brad Reed | 22 May, 2012 02:27

  Now that Google has gotten permission from China's Anti-Monopoly Bureau to acquire Motorola Mobility, the companies are expected to complete their merger by the middle of this week.

• Tech managers aren't doing a good job developing IT talent: survey

  By Ann Bednarz | 16 May, 2012 05:35

  Tech managers need to do a better job developing talent, IT pros say. There's too much judgment and not enough instruction, according to new poll data from Dice.com.

• Are iPhone 5 rumors torpedoing Apple’s Q2 revenues?

  By John Cox | 15 May, 2012 09:34

  Apple (AAPL - NASDAQ) is warning investors that returns for the current second quarter will be lower than projections, triggering widespread and feverish speculation that the fall-off is due to swirling rumors about an early summer launch for iPhone 5.

• BeyondTrust acquires eEye in union of security vendors

  By Ellen Messmer | 09 May, 2012 14:32

  BeyondTrust, a software firm that specializes in identity and access management for the enterprise, has announced the acquisition of eEye Digital Security, which makes products for vulnerability management, patch remediation, malware defense and configuration compliance.

• BeyondTrust acquires eEye in union of security vendors

  By Ellen Messmer | 09 May, 2012 14:32

  BeyondTrust, a software firm that specializes in identity and access management for the enterprise, has announced the acquisition of eEye Digital Security, which makes products for vulnerability management, patch remediation, malware defense and configuration compliance.

• Red Hat, Dell announce OEM partnership

  By Jon Gold | 08 May, 2012 23:37

  The announcement Tuesday of a new partnership between Dell and Red Hat could mark a further expansion of open-source software use in the enterprise.

• Commercial enterprises are putting our critical infrastructure at risk

  By Sean Martin, a CISSP and the founder of imsmartin consulting | 05 May, 2012 07:33

  Cybercriminals have already figured out how to hack into enterprise infrastructure, and the critical infrastructure that controls our nation's supply of water, gas, oil and electricity just might be next.

• RIM's Australian attempt at guerrilla marketing is a belly flop

  By Jon Gold | 02 May, 2012 07:27

  While we're sure nobody at Research in Motion thought a host of black-clad protesters shouting "wake up!" outside a Australian Apple Store would single-handedly turn the company around, they probably didn't think that it could actually backfire as badly as it has.

• Microsoft may take on Kindles and Nooks

  By Tim Greene | 01 May, 2012 05:29

  Microsoft is investing $300 million in a Barnes & Noble spin-off that has agreed to create a free Metro style Windows 8 application so customers can shop at the spinoff's store, but Microsoft reserves the right to compete against Barnes & Noble with its own e-reader hardware presumably based on Windows 8.

• Intel buys $75 million worth of patents from Aware Inc.

  By Jon Gold | 28 April, 2012 01:33

  Aware Inc., a Massachusetts-based DSL signal processing specialist, announced this morning that it had agreed to sell $75 million in Wi-Fi, LTE and wireless home networking patents to semiconductor giant Intel.

• Top FBI cyber cop joins startup CrowdStrike to fight enterprise intrusions

  By Ellen Messmer | 19 April, 2012 03:40

  Shawn Henry, who just retired as executive assistant director of the criminal, cyber, response and service branch of the FBI after 24 years there, has been named president of CrowdStrike Services, a division which will focus on incident response and malware assessment. Henry says he accepted the position because he agrees with the company's vision, even though CrowdStrike only debuted a few months ago and its product line won't be out until later this year. CrowdStrike was founded by its CEO George Kurtz and CTO Dmitri Alperovitch, and funded with $26 million from investment firm Warburg Pincus.

• Dell's buying frenzy might not be over yet

  By Jon Gold | 12 April, 2012 07:30

  While Dell's recent string of new acquisitions probably won't continue at the same breakneck pace that has been seen over the past several weeks, experts agree that the company is in the midst of a major strategic shift.

• Citrix buys further into social collaboration

  By Brandon Butler | 12 April, 2012 05:31

  Seeking to increase its stature in the increasingly competitive social collaboration market, Citrix announced the purchase of a startup that specializes in cloud-based workplace tools.