Infrastructure

In a deal that marries one of the IT industry's biggest data storage vendors and one of its best-known security companies, EMC Corp. unveiled plans to acquire RSA Security Inc. Under the deal, Hopkinton, Mass.-based EMC will pay US$28 a share, or almost $2.1 billion, for Bedford, Mass.-based RSA, according to the companies.

Ending more than a year of speculation and rumours, Google Inc. unveiled its much-awaited online payments system, likely surprising many because its reach will extend farther than previously thought.

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The Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers was released Wednesday, with IBM Corp.'s BlueGene continuing to reign and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s (AMD's) Opteron processor powering more systems on the list than last year.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), backed by a group of online leaders, released a document on Tuesday describing best practices for developing Web pages that can be displayed properly on small, mobile devices.

Symantec Corp. said it would release in September a beta version of a security software product that hardens a computer's defenses against e-commerce and banking fraud. The software, Norton Confidential, will detect when a Web site or malicious program is trying to swipe a user name or password, a rising form of Internet crime called phishing, Symantec said.

When native son Jacques Villeneuve raced in the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal, his BMW Sauber F1 team had Intel inside. Last December, Intel Corp. signed-on with BMW Sauber as an official corporate sponsor in a relationship both companies are hoping will pay dividends. In addition to the usual branding arrangements, Intel is also providing the team with technology, from Xeon servers to Centrino-based laptops, to help BMW Sauber gain a competitive advantage in the increasingly technology-intensive world of Formula One racing.

After years of dipping its toe in the waters of unified voice and data communications, Microsoft is ready to dive in headfirst, and will unveil its Unified Communication Product Roadmap and Partner Ecosystem.