Symantec expanding its encryption know-how through two acquisitions
Security firm Symantec has signed two agreement through which it will purchase privately-held email and data encryption companies PGP Corporation and GuardianEdge Technologies for about $300 million and $70 million in cash.
Through these acquisitions Symantec is looking to improve its endpoint security and data loss prevention solutions for enterprise customers and individuals, integrate the PGP key management platform into the Symantec Protection Center, and overall become a leader in the encryption market which is estimated to be worth $1.7 billion in 2013.
"As information becomes increasingly mobile, it's essential to take an information-centric approach to security. Our market-leading data protection solutions provide the intelligence for customers to better understand what data is important, who owns it and who accesses it," said Francis deSouza, senior vice president, Enterprise Security Group, Symantec. "With these acquisitions we can further protect information by using encryption in an intelligent and policy-driven way to give the right users access to the right information, enabling the trust that individuals and organizations need to operate confidently in an information-driven world."
Once the two transactions are closed (by the end of this quarter) PGP Corporation and GuardianEdge will join Symantec's Enterprise Security Group.
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Logitech posts $525 million revenue for Q1
Well-known peripheral supplier Logitech announced that in the quarter ended March 31st, Q4 of fiscal year 2010 to them, Q1 of calendar year 2010 to most of the human race, their sales reached $525 million, up 29% on-year, while net income was of $24 million.
According to Logitech's report, retail sales this past quarter grew by 27% compared to the same period on 2009, with sales up by 54% in the Americas, 15% in EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa ), and 10% in Asia, while OEM sales went up just 1%.
"After a challenging start to the year, we ended Fiscal Year 2010 with very strong sales and gross margin performance," said Gerald P. Quindlen, Logitech president and chief executive officer. "I'm very pleased that in Q4 we delivered strong sell-through growth and achieved double-digit sales growth in our three retail regions, as well as double-digit sales growth across all of our retail product categories."
For the quarter ending June 30th, Logitech has predicted a revenue hovering between $450 million and $465 million.
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Buffalo coming up with new, slim external DVD writer
Buffalo Technology has this week announced its intention to introduce a new optical drive to its product portfolio, the DVSM-PS58U2/S-BK external DVD writer featuring a slot-in loading mechanism and a USB 2.0 connection interface.
The upcoming drive measures 137 (W) x 20 (H) x 142 (D) mm and weights about 340 grams, has a piano black finish, offers maximum write speeds of 8x for DVD-R/+R and DVD+RW, 6x for DVD-R/+R DL and DVD-RW, 5x for DVD-RAM, 24x for CD-R/-RW, and is bundled with CyberLink's InstantBurn 5 and PowerBackup 2.
The DVSM-PS58U2/S-BK will ship in Japan in mid-May and cost $122.
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HIS unveils the Radeon HD 5550 Silence 1GB card
People in need of peace, quiet and a low-end DirectX 11 cards are in luck (more or less) as Hightech Information System aka HIS is readying the release of a passively-cooled, low-profile Radeon HD 5550 graphics card.
The new HTPC-loving Radeon packs a 40nm Redwood GPU with 400 Stream Processors and a working frequency of 550 MHz, a 128-bit memory interface backed by 1GB DDR2 VRAM @ 800 MHz, a single-slot heatsink, plus D-Sub, DVI and HDMI outputs.
The HIS 5550 Silence 1GB is bundled with BumpTop's intuitive 3D desktop environment and should hit stores in the coming weeks.
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Intel gains PC processor market share in Q1, AMD slips
According to a new IDC report, in the first quarter of this year PC processor shipments have grown 39% compared to the same period of 2009, but declined 5.6% over Q4, while revenues went up 40.4% on-year and down just 2% sequentially.
This past quarter Intel has continued its hegemony with a 81% market share, up 0.5%, with AMD losing 0.6% and settling at 18.8%, and VIA settling with just 0.2%. In the server segment Intel held a 90.2% share, while in the notebook and desktop segments it reached 87.8% and 71.7%, respectively.
For 2010 IDC is predicting a CPU unit growth of 15.1%.
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Amazon Kindle getting Facebook, Twitter integration with 2.5 firmware
Feeling an uncontrolled need to hype up the Kindle line, Amazon.com has provided some information regarding the new features that will be added to its e-book readers via the version 2.5 software update.
Coming for both the 'regular' Kindle and the Kindle DX, the update enables the ability to quickly share book passages on Facebook and Twitter, brings password protection, PDF pan and zoom, more fonts, improved clarity, and introduces collections, allowing people to organize their books and documents, plus popular highlights, so you can see the most interesting passages in the books you read (as 'recommended' by the Kindle community).
The 2.5 software is currently being delivered wirelessly to a 'limited' Kindle user group and will become available to the masses in late May.
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TSMC building new 300mm fab in Taiwan
Manufacturing giant TSMC just can't keep up with the revived chip demand and so it has decided to construct a new 300mm wafer production facility in its home country of Taiwan and increase its 300mm advanced process (130nm and below) output by 35%.
Set to be located in the Central Taiwan Science Park, the planned fab (named Fab15) will cost TSMC about $3.1 billion and will initially manufacture chips using 40nm process technology but will transition to 28nm and 20nm later on. TSMC has had major problems with the 40nm transition but things have improved and in Q1 this node accounted for 14% of its total wafer sales.
TSMC expects to begin building Fab15 around mid-year.
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ST-Ericsson preps new Cortex-A9-based smartphone platform
ST-NXP Wireless and Ericsson Mobile joint venture ST-Ericsson keeps on pushing for the expansion of the smartphone market and in that line it has announced a new platform enabling manufacturers to quickly develop handsets with high-end multimedia features covering a wide price range.
Dubbed U5500, the platform proposed by ST-Ericsson features a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 application processor, an HSPA+ broadband modem, an LP-DDR2 interface, the option of an ARM Mali 400 GPU for high-performance 2D/3D graphics, and supports up to two 12 megapixel cameras with 720p recording capabilities, high-resolution displays, WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS, USB, TV-Out, and major operating systems (Android, Symbian).
"We are on the cusp of a new era in the smartphone market in which consumers across the world will be able to find a model that exactly meets their price and features criteria," said Marc Cetto, Senior Vice President and head of 3G and Multimedia division at ST-Ericsson. "This new range of platforms will make it cost-effective for handset makers to dramatically expand their smartphone portfolio."
The U5500 platform is set to begin sampling in Q3.
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Google Calendar suffers outage, feels better now
Yesterday evening, from around 5:30 PM (UTC) Google's popular online calendar checked out for still undisclosed reasons, leaving a 'significant subset of users' without access to their schedules, meeting reminds and other notices.
Google confirmed the service disruption quite quickly and went to work on fixing the problem, the whole process taking about one hour. At 6:33 PM (again, UTC), the problem was resolved and Google Calendar was back to its old self, keeping track of everything we do. Back to the clouds then.
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Adobe 'Gala' Flash Player enables GPU video acceleration on Mac OS X
Despite Apple's anti-Flash stance Adobe is not giving up on Mac users, and because of this it released a preview version of an new Flash Player release (codename Gala), which brings GPU video acceleration support to systems running Mac OS X 10.6.3.
Based on Flash Player 10.1, the 'almost beta' Gala plug-in works only with GeForce 9400M, GeForce 320M or GeForce GT 330M GPUs which will be used to decode H.264 video, lowering CPU utilization and providing a smoother playback. The tests conducted so far show that Gala still needs quite a bit of work, especially regarding compatibility with certain streaming services, but overall, it does show potential.
If you want to try out the Gala preview check out the Adobe Labs site.
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