| Security services in mind, StillSecure buys ProtectPoint StillSecure is looking to get into the security services business with the acquisition of ProtectPoint today. Google phone helps maker post solid Q4, new products coming The fourth quarter launch of T-Mobile's G1, the first smartphone to use Google's Android OS, helped the handset's maker nearly meet its earnings targets despite a sharp global economic downturn. RIM's new bid for Certicom trumps VeriSign's, says board Research In Motion has doubled the value of its previous offer to buy elliptic curve cryptography specialist Certicom, one of its suppliers. Certicom's board of directors says RIM's latest offer is superior to the bid it accepted from VeriSign last month. The board is waiting for a counterbid from VeriSign. A year later, IBM's Cognos views merger as right move IBM officially closed its $5 billion acquisition of business intelligence software maker Cognos at the end of January 2008. IBM offers to shift laid-off workers to lower-wage countries Some of the workers being let go by IBM have a chance to remain with the company - if they're willing to move to Brazil, India, China or a dozen other low-wage countries. But the expatriate employees likely would be paid local wages as they begin their new lives overseas. Weak pound boosts Vodafone results Vodafone Group's revenue rose 14.3% year on year for the quarter ended Dec. 31, in large part thanks to a weak pound. Excluding the favorable exchange rate and acquisitions, revenue would have declined by 1%, the mobile operator reported Tuesday. Steve Wozniak joins flash storage startup as chief scientist Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has a new gig as the chief scientist at Fusion-io, a startup that is speeding up enterprise applications with a flash memory device inserted directly into servers. Oracle to acquire management player mValent Oracle enters into an agreement to acquire management software maker mValent and incorporate the latter's application configuration management technology into its own Enterprise Manager product. MySQL co-founder quits Sun Michael "Monty" Widenius, the original developer of the open-source MySQL database, has left Sun Microsystems and is starting his own company, Monty Program Ab, he said in a blog post Thursday. Panasonic will cut 15,000 jobs as it forecasts $4.3B loss Japanese electronics giant Panasonic on Wednesday forecast its first yearly loss in a long time and said it will slash jobs due to the worsening global economy. Researchers: IT security jobs largely untouched by economy Information security jobs may not be the most glamorous ones in the technology industry. But at least they appear to be a lot more secure than many other IT positions are during the ongoing economic recession . Stung by losses, Lenovo turns focus back to China Hit by a sharp decline in sales and heavy financial losses, Lenovo Group's new management team is turning the company's focus back to China. Lenovo's CEO resigns as company posts $97 million loss Lenovo Group President and CEO William Amelio resigned Wednesday, after the company posted a US$97 million loss amid a sharp drop in sales during the last quarter of 2008. | 
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