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Lagos Analysis Corporation, a United States-based Nigerian-owned company with a subsidiary called LANCOR Management Limited, in Nigeria (LANCOR) announces that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the Federal High Court, Lagos Judicial Division holding at Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria against Nicholas Negroponte, One Laptop Per Child Association (OLPC) and its enablers in Nigeria.
LANCOR’s [...]

Novell announced the availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10, the latest version of Novell’s enterprise-class, open source real-time operating system for running high-performance, time-sensitive, mission-critical applications.
With SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10, financial organizations can respond more rapidly to changing markets and new information, get greater application reliability and predictability, and identify [...]

SAP AG announced that the Egyptian government has selected SAP as its strategic IT provider for enterprise resource planning (ERP) software.
Central to the development of Egypt’s growing communication and information technology (CIT) sector, a comprehensive memorandum of understanding binds the two parties to a multi-million dollar five-year agreement beginning 2008, a four-year deal with [...]

Symantec disclosed that Apple QuickTime contains a remote buffer overflow vulnerability that could be exploited by the hackers.
Symantec said successful exploits of the vulnerability will compromise the application and possibly the underlying computer. Failed attacks will likely cause denial-of-service conditions.
A solution is to block the rtsp:// protocol, disable the QuickTime ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer and QuickTime plug-ins [...]

Apple has admitted it is examining claims that a number of its MacBook laptops include poorly manufactured hard drives that expose users to data loss.
Data recovery firm Retrodata said the faulty drives are all Seagate 2.5″ drives that are manufactured in China, with a Firmware revision of 7.01. They are also all SATA interface. No other [...]

Toshiba Corp. and NEC Electronics Corp. said they will collaborate in developing technologies to process system LSI circuits with a line width of 32 nanometers.
Since February 2006, the two firms have been working together on 45-nanometer system large scale integrated circuits at Toshiba’s Advanced Microelectronics Center in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of [...]

Symantec Corp. launches of Norton Smartphone Security, the first consumer mobile security offering to provide a solution for both the Windows Mobile and Symbian OS in one product.
This new product features best-in-class Norton AntiVirus technology as well as a firewall and antispam for SMS (Short Message Service). Symantec designed Norton Smartphone Security to provide mobile [...]

HP announced new software and services to help businesses transform IT operations and automate the full lifecycle of managing business services.
The company introduced HP Automated Operations 1.0, an integrated set of products that automates IT operations across all technology and organizational domains. This eliminates labor-intensive, ad hoc and error-prone manual processes and, in turn, [...]

Senior managers of SAP’s TomorrowNow third party ERP support subsidiary, including the CEO, have resigned, and SAP is now “considering several options for the future of the business, including possible sale”.
TomorrowNow CEO Andrew Nelson and several members of his senior management team are leaving the company following SAP’s admission of inappropriate downloads of Oracle intellectual property.
Oracle [...]

NewDawn GSE Asset Management Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of DIC Asset Management (‘DICAM’) and the General Partner for the US$2 billion Global Strategic Equities Fund (‘GSEF’), today announced that it has made a substantial investment in Sony Corporation (‘Sony’), one of the world’s premier consumer electronics and entertainment companies. The investment is the third by [...]