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HP to Acquire 3Com in Dig at Cisco

John Paczkowski in News on November 11, 2009 at 1:29 pm PT

Another big acquisition for Silicon Valley. Hewlett-Packard said Thursday said it would acquire networking gear outfit 3Com for $2.7 billion, or $7.90 a share. The acquisition, which has been approved by both companies’ boards, will bolster HP’s Ethernet switching offerings and, thanks to 3Com’s routing business, intensify competition with rival Cisco.

Here's a Patch for You, Adobe: \Acrobat\Uninstall.exe

John Paczkowski in News on February 20, 2009 at 9:03 am PT

There’s a critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat and at least one zero-day exploit for them in the wild already. Yet Adobe won’t have a fix in place until March 11, and then only for Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9. Patches for earlier versions of the software will arrive sometime after that. Two and half weeks or longer to wait for a critical patch.