Motorola loses $70 million ahead of Google acquisition
Plus, the war between AMD and Intel and a look at Foxconn as an employer
STATE OF THE CHANNEL: New revenue and new clients are priorities for 2012
Results from CDN’s first State of the Canadian Channel report suggest partners will be focused on new revenue streams and finding new customers in the new year
COMPANIES TO WATCH: B.C. company commercializes quantum computing
D-Wave systems recently sold its first commercial quantum computing system and will soon take the technology to the cloud
Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Bank of America team to wipe out phishing
Can industry heavyweights Google and Microsoft along with others succeed in stopping phishing attacks
Droid Razr Maxx Android smartphone
Motorola’s latest smartphone bulks up on battery life and business features
CloudPassage launches new security product for public clouds
The company’s Halo NetSec product tackles the tough problem of securing servers in the cloud
Juniper’s financial challenges continue
Soft demand for routers and switches was the cause
Mozilla okays Firefox 10 launch this week
Adds another part of silent updating: Makes most add-ons work with each new edition
Tech Data is the new kid on the V Block
Synnex Canada gets into gaming with Nintendo
Apple number one smartphone vendor again, say research firms
Samsung had overtaken Apple in the third quarter, as customers waited for the iPhone 4S
Twitter can now block tweets in specific countries
The messages would be visible elsewhere in the world and the removal would be clearly marked, Twitter said
FBI to build social network spy app
App would crawl Twitter and Facebook
Apple breaks Microsoft’s “lock” on enterprise workers, argues analyst
One-in-five business workers now use at least one Apple device, often out of IT’s sight
Canadian firms hiring more IT staff, but career progression a challenge
Hays Canada breaks out numbers from its fifth annual Compensation, Benefits, Recruitment and Retention Guide and shows good news for the tech sector. But also a few challenges
2012 a “Dragon Year” for channel growth: study
One research study suggests the channel is on the threshold of big success in 2012