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Google and Verizon are reportedly in talks over how to manage network traffic, an agreement that could influence how U.S. regulators view Net neutrality, according to a report in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal. Verizon confirmed the talks have been ongoing with Google and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for 10 months, the paper reported. [...]

Cisco Systems has settled a 2008 lawsuit in which independent network maintenance company Multiven charged that Cisco forced customers to buy its SMARTnet service plan in order to get bug fixes and software updates. Multiven agreed to drop its claims against Cisco, and Cisco dropped countersuits against Multiven, network expertise platform Pingsta, and Pingsta founder [...]

IBM on Thursday said it had agreed to acquire data compression technology company Storwize for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition is expected to close in the third quarter of this year, IBM said in a release. [ Stay ahead of the key tech business news with InfoWorld's Today's Headlines: First Look newsletter. | Access InfoWorld [...]

For some enterprises, online video has become a vital tool for training, security, sales, marketing, and other functions. And along with that growth in the use of video comes increased demand for users to be able to find exactly what they need. Video search technology enables users to find specific videos, or to search within [...]

Dell will pay $100 million to resolve an investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission into the company’s past accounting and financial reporting practices, it said Thursday. The settlement also resolves the SEC’s investigation into Dell’s disclosures and alleged omissions regarding certain aspects of its commercial relationship with Intel, Dell said in a statement. [...]

VMware on Tuesday reported a 48 percent jump in revenue for the second quarter, a greater increase than expected, and raised its outlook for the full year on strong demand for its virtualization software. The results see VMware back on a growth streak after its business sputtered during the recession. Its sales were flat in [...]

Google has increased the controls that Apps administrators have over their end users’ iPhone, Nokia, and Windows Mobile devices, the company announced on Tuesday. The new features are intended to make more secure the access of Apps applications and data via mobile devices, which are often lost, misplaced, and stolen. [ Stay ahead of the [...]

The outsourcing market is witnessing an increase in activity as the global economy recovers from the recession of 2009, according to a report by Everest Research Institute. Offshore outsourcing business that was in the pipeline, but was delayed during the recession for financial reasons or for lack of management focus, is now gathering momentum again, [...]

A lawsuit against Apple and AT&T Mobility will proceed as a class action, following a ruling in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Thursday, court documents show. The lawsuit, filed in October 2007, contends that iPhone customers had to subscribe to a two-year agreement with AT&T Mobility, and that the two [...]

Quanta Computer, the world’s largest contract laptop computer maker, set record highs for shipments and revenue in the month of June, a sign demand for technology products hasn’t stumbled despite fears of debt problems in some parts of Europe. The Taiwanese company, which counts Sony, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard among its customers, attributed the records to [...]