Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft Corp was in the city recently for the unveiling of DreamSpark-a software for an estimated 10 million plus qualified students in the country. DreamSpark will provide students access to the latest Microsoft developer and designer tools at no charge. The program is aligned to Microsoft Unlimited Potential, the company's global effort to creating sustained social and economic opportunity for everyone.

Microsoft DreamSpark is available to all students whose studies touch on technology, design, math, science and engineering; as well as technology hobbyists keen on pursuing a career in the field. Worldwide, several million people use the software suite that will now be available free of charge.

Publication: Dqweek, Dated 11-Nov-08

McAfee announced that it is teaming with industry leaders HP ProCurve, Intel Corp and VMware Inc. The cooperation is designed to deliver best-in-class security for HP ProCurve networking products, Intel business PC platforms and the VMware platform, said a press release.

"The era of providing complete protection simply by installing anti-virus software on a PC has long passed. In today's world of sophisticated malware, targeted threats, and multi-stage attacks, security needs to be everywhere," said Dave DeWalt, President and CEO, McAfee. "We're excited to work side-by-side with the world's leading names in technology to deliver on today's security needs," added DeWalt.

McAfee and HP ProCurve have created a strategic alliance with the intent to jointly develop and deliver network security solutions. Under this agreement the partners would build security solutions that combine McAfee's information security products with HP ProCurve's networking product portfolio, it added.

"Together, HP ProCurve and McAfee will develop and deliver optimal secure networking solutions with the assurance of successful product interoperability for enterprise and mid-market customers," said Marius Haas, Senior VP and GM, HP ProCurve.

He stated that the agreement demonstrates the ability of HP ProCurve to provide a flexible and standards-based solution to optimize deployment of security solutions for enterprise and mid-market customers.

McAfee would work with Intel to take advantage of Intel vPro technology to provide security below the operating system layer on PCs. McAfee would use Intel vPro technology to allow IT to discover and remediate security problems on PCs outside of business hours and report the health of the PC back to McAfee's award-winning ePolicy Orchestrator management console, it said.

VMware would ship McAfee VirusScan Plus software with VMware Fusion-VMware's award-winning desktop virtualization product for running Windows applications side-by-side with Mac applications on any Intel-based Mac. VMware Fusion customers would receive antivirus, antispyware and Windows firewall software from McAfee at no additional cost.

Publication: Dqweek, Dated 5-Nov-08

Motorola Inc's co-chief executive, Sanjay Jha, plans to make more job cuts and simplify how it makes devices, the 'Wall Street Journal' reported on its website on Tuesday.

Publication: The Indian Express, Dated 29-Oct-08