Data Storage News

09/02/2010 HP, 3Par sign definitive merger pact
Hewlett-Packard and 3Par have signed a definitive agreement for HP to buy the California storage vendor for $2.35 billion, the companies said Thursday. More info...

09/02/2010 Northrop Grumman takes blame for Va. IT services outage
Northrop Grumman today said it was sorry for a days-long data center disruption that left 26 Virginia state agencies without online services. More info...

09/01/2010 Gartner raises semiconductor revenue forecast for 2010
Gartner on Wednesday raised its worldwide semiconductor revenue forecast for this year as sales of devices like smartphones and tablets gain steam. More info...

09/01/2010 Alcatel-Lucent buys mobile apps dev-tool vendor OpenPlug
Alcatel-Lucent has acquired OpenPlug, the creator of ELIPS Studio, a tool that allows developers to write an application once and then translate it into native code that can run on iPhones and Android-based smartphones. More info...

08/31/2010 Nanocrystal conductors using 'dirt-cheap material' promise massive 3-D storage
Scientists at Rice University have been able to create a non-volitile memory using a chain of nano-sized silicon crystals that can be stacked atop one another to create 3-D memory that offers far great scale than today's flash memory. More info...

08/31/2010 More IT managers plan to spend less, survey finds
A survey by research firm TheInfoPro indicates that IT managers plan to curb spending on data storage systems this year and next, preferring to do more with what they already have. More info...

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Cybercrime News

09/03/2010 Nigerian advance-fee scammer gets 12 years
A Nigerian advance-fee scammer, Okpako Diamreyan, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison by a federal judge.

09/03/2010 Investigators find famous DJ's credit card details for sale
Armin Van Buuren is one of the world's most well-known trance music DJs. He also apparently has had his credit card details stolen.

09/01/2010 Discover to get $5M from Heartland for '08 data breach
Heartland Payment Systems has agreed to pay $5 million to Discover to settle claims arising from the massive data breach disclosed by the payment processor last year.

09/01/2010 DARPA launches insider threat detection effort for military
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched an effort aimed at finding and detecting to insider threats on Department of Defense networks.

09/01/2010 Miami man pleads guilty in ID theft case
A Miami man has pleaded guilty to two identity-theft related charges after federal agents found more than 26,000 credit card numbers stored on his computer, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

09/01/2010 Rape case against WikiLeaks founder Assange will be reopened
Swedish Director of Public Prosecution Marianne Ny has decided to reopen an investigation into rape charges directed at WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.