Archive for ‘April 30th, 2007’

Websense wants to buy Surf Control

Websense wants to buy Surf Control

Websense has reported that it intends to take over its British competitor SurfControl for $ 400 million. If there is no concern of regulators, the acquisition is expected to be completed in four months. Websense, a San Diego-based specialty provider of Web Security provides, the purchase price in the form of a takeover of the [...]

New Aldi laptop with an AMD CPU and Vista

New Aldi laptop with an AMD CPU and Vista

The discounter Aldi has in a few days a new bargain laptop offer. The MD 98 300 is for 699 € from 2 May at Aldi Nord have to, in the south it is a day later in the offer. The mobile computer is powered by an AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-50 processor at 1.6 [...]

Vmware will fetch $ 100 million in the stock market

Vmware will fetch $ 100 million in the stock market

a 153-page filing with the SEC, the EMC subsidiary VMware has now given details about the planned IPO business known. Then the company made last year a net gain of 87 (67) million dollars and a turnover of 704 (387) million dollars. EMC had been reported earlier this year that it wants to bring ten [...]

“100-dollar laptop” is getting expensive

“100-dollar laptop” is getting expensive

responsible of the OLPC project (One Laptop per Child) have released some new information on the 100-dollar laptop. The project is entering a decisive phase: The production should commence in the fall. “Now, however, have the countries that have expressed an interest, we preach,” said Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the IT development project. Bad news [...]