In a deal worth a total of AU$1.05 billion, Symantec has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire online messaging and Web security services specialist Messagelabs.

Kingston has rolling out a new 32GB USB flash drive, giving road warriors enough space to carry all of their documents and other digital content next to their keys.

Scientists in the European Union have shown off a new and apparently unhackable encryption system, paving the way for government agencies, financial institutions or companies with distributed subsidiaries to encrypt communications without fear of security breaches.

While genome scientists continue to do groundbreaking work, the process of creating and analysing genomic information requires a substantial amount of data storage capacity. To head this exponential growth off at the pass, NetApp has annou...

ReadSoft has unveiled software called REPORTER that provides immediate access to statistics and reports regarding invoice processing.

Proofpoint 5.5, the latest version of the company's integrated email and data security solution, offers improved bounce management features that block 100 percent of "backscatter" spam.

Open Text's new Storage Services for SharePoint Server 2007 allow content to be stored externally while also reducing wasted space by automatically detecting multiple instances of the same content.

tyBit.com is a new unified search engine that claims to eliminate click fraud for its advertisers and provides itemised billing for all advertising dollars spent.

Dell is promising to simplify backups with a new integrated disk-to-disk (D2D) data protection solution - the PowerVault DL2000.

A trio of software updates to its information risk management products are on the way in early 2009 from Symantec.