Symantec says Chinese offer a success, withholds numbers
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Symantec on Monday said that its makegood for Chinese users affected by a bad software update was well received. However, the company offered no numbers to back up their claim that the offer, which ended Sunday, was a success.
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China's biggest computer maker said Tuesday it is in acquisition talks with a major international technology company, a disclosure which comes amid reports it might buy IBM Corp.'s personal computer business.
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In unloading its personal computer business for $1.75 billion to a Chinese company, IBM managed to keep the division's most profitable pieces -- services and support. The onus is now on buyer Lenovo Group Ltd. to improve the businesses' notoriously thin profit margins, and the skeptics are many.
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Security software vendor Symantec claimed this week that Microsoft is withholding information about its new Vista operating system in an attempt to create an unfair advantage for its own security software.
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Time to rename it 'Symaunteuc?' Symantec should be thankful for a healthy year's worth of publicized data pratfalls an ocean away. International sales rose 21 per cent in its third fiscal quarter, bolstering a strong quarter for the security software firm and a cheery outlook for Q4.â¦
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It may be too early to tell, but some Symantec partners have already begun to express concern.
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Symantec Corp.  said on  Wednesday the release of its new Web-based security service  would depend on response to user trials and would be held back  if required tweaks meant it would miss the key holiday period  in the United States.
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Con-pensation Chinese PC users whose machines were crippled by a dodgy software update from Symantec have two weeks to apply for compensation. The company has announced that the 50,000 users affected by the error are entitled to some free Norton anti-virus licenses.â¦
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Software vendor mulls how to compensate Chinese comupter users effected by a buggy antivirus update last week.
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International Business Machines Corp. took the "conference" out of conference call this week when it invited investors to "a discussion" about the sale of its personal computer business to China's largest PC maker.
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InfoWorld - More than a month after Symantec Corp. knocked out 50,000 Chinese PCs with a bad software update, the company is ready to offer compensation. But Chinese users eligible for the offer have to act fast; it&#39;s only good for a couple of weeks.
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SHENZHEN, China  - Pirated software worth $500  million, including counterfeit Microsoft and Symantec products,  has been seized in a long-running joint probe by Chinese police  and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, officials from  both countries said on Tuesday.
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'Lacks seriousness and sincerity' We were skeptical on Monday when Symantec said it would atone for a bug that crippled the PCs of tens of thousands Chinese users by giving them free software. "Cockroach in your salad, sir? Have some free salad," was how we put it.â¦
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Symantec has signed an agreement to acquire @stake, a security consulting and software company, Symantec said Thursday. @stake will improve Symantec&#39;s consulting contacts--six of the top 10 financial institutions are customers, Symantec said.
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China offers to help track down the Chinese hackers who broke into German computers.
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As Symantec (SYMC) pitches its products at the foremost computer security conference in San Francisco, the company is fending off questions from investors who say an attempt to expand its portfolio has hampered growth.
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Symantec surveyed security issues from bots to phishing and declared China's PCs the most infected.