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Credit Woes Send Stocks Skidding Again

A better than expected start to the holiday shopping season was good for all of a 30-minute rally Monday before credit and housing market concerns sent stocks plunging once again. After starting the day out modestly higher, the Dow, S%26amp;P and Nasdaq all ended the day about 2% lower, extending a brutal slide that began last month and has now shaved 10% off the major averages, the first official stock market correction since the start of the Iraq war in 2003. Not surprisingly, stocks with heavy exposure to the mortgage market meltdown led the way lower once again, with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Countrywide Financial, Washington Mutual and Citigroup among the names suffering steep declines. The latest decline on the subprime mortgage fiasco began last month after the Federal Reserve suggested it was concerned enough about inflation that it might be done cutting interest rates to stem the credit market meltdown. Since rate cuts push the U.S. dollar lower and spur economic growth by making loans cheaper, they can send oil and other commodities higher, fueling inflation. And with oil nearing a record $100 a barrel, the Fed is worried that the price of oil and other commodities could begin showing up in retail prices. Investors will get a good sense this week whether more rate cuts are in store, with eight Fed officials scheduled to speak, including chairman Ben Bernanke on Thursday. The Fed next meets on Dec. 11. The Fed's beige book reading of economic conditions on Wednesday will also be watched for signs that the Fed has room to cut rates further. E*Trade shares fell 14% on reports that potential buyers Schwab and Ameritrade are questioning the value of E*Trade's mortgage holdings. Garmin and Apple gained on hopes for strong holiday sales, but the rest of the tech sector was mired in red ink, led lower by the likes of Microsoft, Cisco and Intel. Microsoft fell 3.3% despite reports of strong gaming sales, and even Amazon finished with a slight loss. VMware lost nearly 10% on negative comments from Cowen %26amp; Co., sending parent company EMC nearly 6% lower. Baidu and Shanda Interactive posted gains of about 6% each. The Nasdaq fell 55 to 2540, the S%26amp;P lost 33 to 1407, and the Dow tumbled 237 to 12,743. Volume declined from Wednesday's pre-holiday levels to 3.71 billion shares on the NYSE, and 2.02 billion on the Nasdaq. Decliners led by a 26-8 margin on the NYSE, and 22-8 on the Nasdaq. Downside volume was 86% on the NYSE, and 82% on the Nasdaq. New highs-new lows were 45-340 on the NYSE, and 54-287 on the Nasdaq.

The Highs And Lows of Holiday e-Commerce

You've got to take the good with the bad, as the saying goes. How true those words ring for many online retailers taking stock of their performance on Black Friday. Online retailers saw traffic jump 10 percent the day after Thanksgiving, compared with the same day last year, according to research from Nielsen Online. However, that surge in online shopping activity overwhelmed many leading retailers' sites, creating significant slowdowns that may have caused shoppers to lose patience and click away during a product search or checkout, according to Keynote Systems, a research firm that measures Web site performance. Given the predictable increase in online shopping on Black Friday, Keynote says that moderate slowdowns (in the 5 percent to 10 percent range) can be expected, and are likely to have little effect on the typical consumer's experience. "The average site's slow-down is almost imperceptible to the consumer with high-speed access," Keynote's study found. "However, those sites that experience significant slowdown usually will have problems with their product search, product information and checkout processes." If anything, this year should have dealt a softer blow to e-commerce sites, with the increase in traffic this Black Friday down slightly from last year's 12 percent increase over the previous year, according to Nielsen. Of the 30 major retail sites Keynote tracked, 10 experienced significant slowdowns in product search and checkout, including Lowes and Buy.com. The sites that experienced the most trouble saw site performance slow by as much as 400 percent, Keynote found. However, no major site suffered a total outage, unlike last year when many went completely dark. Though Keynote warns that significant slowdowns in retailers' sites "presumably will impact online sales," Nielsen's findings indicate that consumers are generally responding favorably to online promotions, which on the whole can be expected to improve the balance sheets of most retailers. InterActiveCorp was the most popular retail destination on Friday with 5.3 million unique visitors, Nielsen reported. Amazon was second, with 5.1 million unique visitors, followed by Wal-Mart.com, with 3.6 million unique visitors. Consumer electronics saw the strongest week-over-week growth, with Best Buy and Circuit City posting respective increases in unique visitors of 292 percent and 257 percent on Black Friday compared with the previous Friday. Keynote does not provide real numbers to quantify the effect that poor site performance had on online retailers' sales on Friday. In a statement, the firm's Shawn White credits most retailers with "planning in advance for the online holiday shopping season, building site capacity and testing load and performance months and months before the season. That's paid off for most retailers, but a surprising number still have a ways to go." What does this mean for Cyber Monday? Retail industry association Shop.org is expecting 72 million consumers to shop online today, either from home or work. That's an 18.6 percent increase over the same day last year, when 60.7 million consumers shopped online. Shop.org's 2006 figure was up just 2.8 percent from the previous year. This means that while Nielsen's measure of the increase in online Black Friday traffic was down slightly from last year, Shop.org is predicting that Cyber Monday will see a double-digit increase. Are retailers ready?

Apple Agrees to Settlement Over Burst's Claims

Burst.com has notched another win related to its patented multimedia delivery technology, this time reaching a settlement with Apple. Santa Rosa, Calif.-based Burst said the PC and iPod maker has agreed to pay it a one-time sum of $10 million in exchange for a non-exclusive license to key parts of Burst's patent portfolio, which relates to video and audio delivery software for IP networks. Burst.com also said it has agreed not to sue Apple over any future infringement of Digital Video Recorder technology developed by Burst. The company has one patent in the area, and three pending. The settlement comes after almost two years of litigation between the two companies. Burst.com CEO Richard Lang told InternetNews.com last April that the success of Apple's popular iTunes, iPod and QuickTime products depend on the customer's ability to download a movie or a song in less time than it would take to play that video or song. Lang claimed the technology behind that ability is a Burst.com invention. "I devised an apparatus and technology to take audio and video and deliver it at a different rate than it was being consumed," he said at the time. The actual payment in the Apple suit could end up being only $4.6 million after court costs, attorney fees and other expenses are deducted. In a statement, Burst said its Board of Directors is considering a cash distribution to its shareholders from the settlement. Neither Apple nor Burst responded to requests for comment by press time. The settlement marks the latest success for Burst.com against a far larger defendant. The company reached a settlement with Microsoft in March 2005 for $60 million, granting the software giant a non-exclusive license. Burst earlier had been an official Microsoft partner with expectations that its technology would be incorporated in Windows Media Player. But Burst alleged in 2002 that Microsoft used its technology without paying for it, resulting in a prolonged court battle. The agreement with Burst also comes as Apple's latest settlement in connection with its music business. In August 2006, Apple settled a patent infringement suit filed by Creative Technology related to the Cupertino, Calif.-based company's iPod. The suit stemmed from a patent Creative held for its rival Zen MP3 player that covered how users navigate menus in digital music devices. In the ensuing settlement, Apple agreed to pay $100 million and to make Creative an official iPod accessory supplier.

Server Sales Healthy Despite Consolidation Trend

Worldwide server shipments rose by 8.7 percent on a unit basis and 2.6 percent on a dollar basis for the third quarter of 2007 over the same quarter last year, according to the latest research from Gartner. Worldwide server revenue totaled $13.4 billion for the quarter, with just over 2.2 million units shipped. If the upward trend continues it would contradict some predictions that server consolidation and virtualization would cause a dip in buying. Gartner was expecting to see an impact, too. "We were thinking that the market would be slower due to virtualization, but it hasn't shown that in this quarter, and some other markets have shown rapid growth, particularly the emerging regions," Lillian Alvarado, senior analyst in Gartner's server markets team told InternetNews.com. "There probably has been some effect but you can't see it because the market is still growing strong." Leading the way on the revenue side once again was Big Blue, although IBM actually saw sales decline year over year. Third quarter 2007 sales were $4.0 billion, down 8.1 percent from $4.3 billion in 2006. System p and System x sales rose while System z (its most expensive servers) and System i declined. HP led the way in both unit shipments and revenue growth. Unit shipments skyrocketed 20.2 percent in the quarter. Its closest competitor in terms of unit growth was Fujitsu/Siemens, which gained 17.4 percent on the previous year. However, Fujitsu sold 76,606 units while HP sold 649,958 servers, almost ten times as many. HP is also coming within striking distance of IBM's sales. For the quarter, it reported sales of $3.75 billion, up 13.9 percent over the prior year. HP had 28.1 percent of total sales to IBM's 30.1 percent. Alvarado said x86 sales have been driving the market, and HP has one of the most recognized brand names in x86 servers, the ProLiant line. But what really helped has been a huge investment in HP's channel strategy. "They have done a lot of things to improve their sales," said Alvarado. "They have revamped their channels, they have invested a lot to get to market in a faster way and they are reaping the benefit of those strategies." Dell is enjoying a bit of a recovery as shipments grew by 5.4 percent, giving it 21.8 percent of the overall server market to HP's 29.3 percent and IBM's 14.3 percent. Dell's quarterly revenue of $1.52 billion was a 12.6 percent improvement over last year and represented 11.8 percent of the total revenue for the quarter. Sun Microsystems is also improving, with an 11.4 percent growth in revenue even though there was a 4.5 percent decline in server unit shipments. The revenue growth was due to Sun's focus on the high end of the market, where margins are higher. "I think they are still using a lot of their customer base %26#91;to drive new sales%26#93;," said Alvarado. "But they are trying to reach new customers, and in this quarter they did win back some old customers. But by and large they are still working with their old customers." In the end, the server market continues to be an x86-dominated world, with 2.1 million of the servers sold, compared to just 100,000 RISC-based servers (including Intel's Itanium) sold in Q3. However, there is big margin in RISC. The 2.1 million x86 machines sold in Q3 brought in $7.5 billion in revenue, or around $3,500 per unit, while those 100,000 RISC servers brought in $3.8 billion in revenue or $38,000 per unit. "There is still life in non-x86, and there will continue to be," said Alvarado. "It's an area that has large margins and vendors are going to protect those segments."

Researchers Turn Skin Cells Into Stem Cells

By Gretchen Vogel
ScienceNOW Daily News
20 November 2007

Scientists have managed to reprogram human skin cells directly into cells that look and act like embryonic stem (ES) cells. The technique makes it possible to generate patient-specific stem cells to study or treat disease without using embryos or oocytes--and therefore could bypass the ethical debates that have plagued the field. "This is like an earthquake for both the science and politics of stem cell research," says Jesse Reynolds, policy analyst for the Center for Genetics and Society in Oakland, California.

The work builds on a study published last year by Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University in Japan, which showed that mouse tail cells could be transformed into ES-like cells by inserting four genes (ScienceNOW, 3 July 2006). Those genes are normally switched off after embryonic cells differentiate into the various cell types. In June this year, Yamanaka and another group reported that the cells were truly pluripotent, meaning that they had the potential to grow into any tissue in the body (ScienceNOW, 6 June).

Now the race to repeat the feat in human cells has ended in a tie: Two groups report today that they have reprogrammed human skin cells into so-called induced pluripotent cells (iPSs). In a paper published online in Cell, Yamanaka and his colleagues show that their mouse technique works with human cells as well. And in a paper published online in Science, James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his colleagues report success in reprogramming human cells, again by inserting just four genes, two of which are different from those Yamanaka uses.

In the new work, Yamanaka and his colleagues used a retrovirus to ferry into adult cells the same four genes they had previously used to reprogram mouse cells: OCT3/4, SOX2, KLF4, and c-MYC. They reprogrammed cells taken from the facial skin of a 36-year-old woman and from connective tissue from a 69-year-old man. Roughly one iPS cell line was produced for every 5000 cells the researchers treated using the technique, an efficiency that enabled them to produce several cell lines from each experiment.

Thomson's team started from scratch, identifying its own list of 14 candidate reprogramming genes. Like Yamanaka's group, the team used a systematic process of elimination to identify four factors: OCT3 and SOX2, as Yamanaka used, and two different genes, NANOG and LIN28. The group reprogrammed cells from fetal skin and from the foreskin of a newborn boy. The researchers were able to transform about one in 10,000 cells, less than Yamanaka's technique achieved, Thomson says, but still enough to create several cell lines from a single experiment.

Although promising, both techniques share a downside. The retroviruses used to insert the genes could cause tumors in tissues grown from the cells. The crucial next step, everyone agrees, is to find a way to reprogram cells by switching on the genes rather than inserting new copies. The field is moving quickly toward that goal, says stem cell researcher Douglas Melton of Harvard University. "It is not hard to imagine a time when you could add small molecules that would tickle the same networks as these genes" and produce reprogrammed cells without genetic alterations, he says.

Once the kinks are worked out, "the whole field is going to completely change," says stem cell researcher Jose Cibelli of Michigan State University in East Lansing. "People working on ethics will have to find something new to worry about."

For a more in-depth news story on this topic, see this week's issue of Science, available online 22 November.

Lyme Disease's Unusual Suspects

By Martin Enserink
ScienceNOW Daily News
21 November 2007

A new study challenges the widely held view that mice are the main animal reservoir for Lyme disease in the United States. The paper, published online this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, shows that two shrew species are just as important and that chipmunks play a supporting role. Unless those species are taken into account, say researchers, efforts to control Lyme disease are doomed to fail.

Lyme disease can cause anything from rash to arthritic and psychiatric diseases. Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease in the United States, is transmitted to humans by blacklegged ticks. Researchers have assumed that the vast majority of ticks become infected when, as larvae, they take their first blood meal from a white-footed mouse. Indeed, lab studies have shown that as many as 90%26#37; of ticks feeding on an infected mouse pick up the bug, an "extremely high number," says disease ecologist Dustin Brisson of the University of Pennsylvania.

But other species that transmit B. burgdorferi to ticks less efficiently might also spread the disease if they are more numerous or if they are bitten by a large number of ticks. And some studies had suggested this to be the case. For instance, a field trial published in 2004 showed that vaccinating mice against Lyme disease and then releasing them led to only a small decrease in the number of infected ticks.

To get a fuller picture, Brisson and his colleagues pulled together data from their own studies in the Hudson Valley in New York state and from other papers. The team looked at an outer surface protein of B. burgdorferi found in ticks--which can give clues about the vertebrate host--as well as the probabilities that different host species transmit the microbe during a tick bite, the number of larvae feeding on the animals, and population densities. Then they calculated the importance of each of the host species.

White-footed mice account for only a quarter of the total number of infected ticks, the team found. Short-tailed shrews and masked shrews were responsible for another quarter each, and chipmunks for as much as 13%26#37;. That means that mice aren't the "dominant" host at all, says Brisson, and vaccination strategies aimed at mice alone are unlikely to bring Lyme disease under control. Brisson speculates that mice have received a lot of attention in part because they're conspicuous, easy to catch, and ideal lab subjects.

"It's a nice paper," says Durland Fish of Yale University School of Medicine, a co-author of the 2004 vaccination study. However, he believes there are even more culprits. In particular, the team barely looked at birds, he notes, even though one study has shown that robins, which often live close to humans, are very good at transmitting B. burgdorferi to ticks in the lab. "The situation is probably even more complex than we think," Fish says.

Odd Little Stars

By Phil Berardelli
ScienceNOW Daily News
21 November 2007

It seems as though every time astronomers point their telescopes at the night sky, some weird new finding forces them to revamp their theories. And so it is with nine newly discovered white dwarfs. The stars defy their expected chemical makeup and by rights shouldn't even exist. An explanation could open up a new branch of astronomy.

White dwarfs earn their moniker by being quite small, astronomically speaking. They start out as normal stars, but over billions of years, they expand into red giants before exhausting their energy and collapsing into objects not much bigger than Earth. Until this year, all known white dwarfs followed this pattern, and they all boasted atmospheres consisting of either hydrogen or helium, which can be easily identified by the spectral lines of their respective light.

Not so the nine discovered by an international team and reported in tomorrow's issue of Nature. Plucked from millions of stars and galaxies analyzed over the past 7 years by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, this bunch burns considerably cooler than normal and contains atmospheres made entirely of carbon, with no traces of hydrogen or helium. Astronomers don't have a clue why. Usually, a star produces excess carbon when it is about to shut down the nuclear-fusion cycle that keeps it burning. No fusion means gravitational collapse followed by a supernova explosion that splashes the star all over its galaxy.

So why are these white dwarfs still around? One possibility, notes astronomer and lead author Patrick Dufour of the University of Arizona, Tucson, is that the stars simply might not have grown massive enough--about 10 times heavier than the sun--to explode but are so close to the limit that they might be harboring abnormally high amounts of carbon. The unique chemical signature of the stars may provide clues to what's going on. "It tells us that nature has found a way that we didn't know to make white dwarf stars without the usual hydrogen or helium surface layers," Dufour says.

A whole new class of carbon-dominated white dwarf stars is a "major discovery," says astronomer Pierre Bergeron of the University of Montreal in Canada. It's something that occurs only once in a decade or so, he says, and the underlying process governing these white dwarfs "will launch an entirely new field of research." Astronomer Klaus Werner of the Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics in T?bingen, Germany, agrees. "There is currently no explanation how such stars can be formed," he says. "It's a real challenge to stellar-evolution theory."

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First Penryn Chips With 'Reinvented Transistor'

Intel on Monday will begin shipping its Penryn line of processors to computer makers, who are all expected to announce system availability as well. On the outside, Penryn isn't a huge change to the Core 2/Xeon line of desktop and server processors, but underneath it all, it's a huge change for Intel. For starters, it marks the beginning of the end of the silicon dioxide layer that gave the Silicon Valley its nickname. In January, Intel announced a new manufacturing process involving the element Hafnium, which helped better control the electrical leakage as Intel was shrinking its processors. The silicon dioxide layer in the processor had been whittled down to just five atoms, causing the electrical leakage. That in turn caused the heat. "If there is no leakage and all the current is absolutely used to process instructions, you wouldn't even need a heat sink, but there will always be leakage," explained George Alfs, a spokesman for Intel. "We've reinvented the transistor," he added. "We've really improved the ability of this processor to reduce leakage significantly, resulting in cooler processors." InternetNews.com's sister site, Sharky Extreme, which does performance testing, found the new Penryn desktop processor to be much cooler than its predecessors. Silicon isn't the only element getting bounced from the Intel processor family. So are lead and halogen compounds. Lead, which conducts electricity very well, is being phased out of the line. Intel chips are currently five percent lead but that is being removed and replaced with a tin/silver/copper alloy. Halogen was used as a fire retardant, and that will be removed in 2008, making the chips much more eco-friendly. Monday's launch features one desktop chip, the top of the line $999 QX9650, and 12 quad-core Xeon processors in the 5400 line, which will range in price from $177 to $1279 in quantities of 1,000. These new chips will have clock speeds ranging from 2GHz up to 3.20GHz, with front side bus speeds (FSB) up to 1600MHz, and cache sizes of up to 12MB. They will be second on the Intel Xeon product tree, behind only the 7300 multiprocessor line. Intel is also releasing a new chipset for the 5400 that is optimized for high-bandwidth applications like high performance computing and the Intel 5100 Memory Controller Hub chipset and Intel ICH-9R I/O controller. The Xeons will also feature enhanced Intel virtualization technology to improve virtual machine transition (entry/exit) times by an average of 25 to 75 percent through hardware with no changes to software required. Intel will release three mid-range dual-core Xeon 5200 processors in December. The bulk of desktop processors, including mobile chips, will come in the first quarter of 2008. In-Stat analyst Jim McGregor said the Penryn line is a good mid-life bump for the Core architecture. "They are not standing still at all," he told InternetNews.com. "They are on schedule, meeting their expectations, it has a faster fronside bus, offers power savings and runs cooler. But next year will be a lot more interesting with Nehalem and Silverthorne." He added this puts increased pressure on AMD to match performance. "Intel, despite not having an integrated memory controller, continue to enhance their processor core and remain very, very competitive, and this is just one step away from when they will be with Nehalem, and that's going to have everything but the kitchen sink. "AMD really hasn't shown a lot of innovation as of late," he added.

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HP To Focus On Partner For Its Camera Biz

HP has taken a big picture look at its digital camera efforts and decided to retrench. The computer giant plans to continue selling HP-branded cameras through this holiday season, but expects to have a partnership agreement in place by the first half of 2008. The partner will be licensed to design, source and distribute digital cameras under the HP brand. As a result of its new camera business strategy, HP said it will take a pre-tax charge of approximately $30 million in the fourth fiscal quarter ending Oct. 31, 2007. "We're not backing away from the camera business, but looking for an OEM (define) partner for distribution," Alyson Griffin, told InternetNews.com. Once that partner is found, she said HP plans to invest the funds it no longer has to spend on manufacturing into its "Print 2.0" campaign. Print 2.0 essentially covers three areas: a next-generation digital printing platform for increased print speeds and lower printing costs for high-volume commercial markets; services and tools that make it easier to print from the Web; and extending HP's digital content creation and publishing platforms across all customer segments. The news wasn't a surprise to analyst Tim Bajarin. "HP got into cameras as an important way to extend and support its printing business," Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, told InternetNews.com. "Now you look at all the new cameras coming out and the aggressive pricing, I think it's too difficult for HP to continue on its own in something that's not core to its business. I understand their reasoning. A camera maker without a lot of name recognition or access to the channel, would stand to have a lot of success working with HP." HP has made other moves to gets its camera technology more broadly distributed. Last year the company announced it was licensing its latest PhotoSmart digital image technology, first introduced in 1995, to Flextronics, a major supplier of camera modules to phone manufacturers. At the announcement, HP and Flextronics said they expected the first camera phones to incorporate PhotoSmart would be available for sale by the second half of 2007. While camera phone pictures aren't commonly printed, HP officials said PhotoSmart will help change that because it enables higher quality images consumers will be more inclined to want to print to keep or share with others.

Vontu Buy Puts Symantec At Head Of DLP Field

With its $350 million purchase of Vontu, Symantec jumped to the head of the pack as a digital loss prevention company and now it's looking to build on this purchase to get into the enterprise security market it has long coveted. The two companies were already on familiar terms. Symantec was a reseller of Vontu's DLP products and Vontu frequently targeted the same customers as Symantec. For Vontu, it's a chance to expand its customer reach, since Symantec has much longer arms. "We had just started going global, so Symantec gives us a new market to approach and Symantec's government business is an untapped market for us. Also, there are appliances and the mid-sized market is new for us," said Steve Roop, vice president of products and marketing at Vontu, during a conference call Tuesday discussing the deal. For its part, Symantec said it will be the only vendor to offer security at the endpoint (meaning client computers), the network and storage. The company plans to both integrate Vontu's DLP products with its own, and sell them as standalone offerings for use with other products. "Overall, our DLP product strategy is a best-of-both-worlds strategy," said Ken Schneider, CTO of Symantec's security and data management group. "We're going to pursue best in class for the standalone DLP products as well as deliver the critical integrations Symantec customers are expecting." He added that given the growth the company is expecting in DLP, Symantec plans to accelerate the R%26D investment in the DLP technology beyond what Vontu would have been able to do on its own. Loss prevention software seems to be popular these days. Trend Micro recently acquired a DLP company called Provilla and McAfee snapped up SafeBoot, another DLP firm, last month. But they weren't as prominent as Vontu, which makes Symantec an instant leader in the DLP space, according to one analyst. "As security is less about securing the infrastructure and more about securing the data, Symantec needed something in that space and it not only got a product but they bought leadership with Vontu," Jon Oltsik, senior analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group, told InternetNews.com. "It definitely helps Symantec, it compliments their desktop and gateway products, it gets them into it governance discussions they weren't in before and it gives them another door into the enterprise," Oltsik added. While all the attention and worry has been over the malicious hacker breaking in to a company to steal vital information, the fact is most employees are the biggest threat a company faces. Lost notebooks, data copied to USB thumb drives or sent out via IM are a much greater threat. Schneider estimates that 96 percent of data-loss incidents Symantec sees are insider incidents that are the result of accidents, ill-informed employees or people who have violated business processes. Occasionally, it's a malcontent employee out to cause harm. Only four percent of incidents are the result of outsiders breaking into the enterprise network. The Vontu DLP software allows for automated enforcement of policies by doing things like notifying an employee that they've mailed data to a home account that shouldn't have gone out of the system or copied something to a USB drive that they shouldn't have. "Companies see these incidents go down 90 percent when they turn DLP on. So there is a way to modify human behavior and educate people not to do foolish things," Kit Robinson, a spokesperson for Vontu, told InternetNews.com.

Symantec Snaps Up Vontu

Symantec on Monday announced the acquisition of Vontu, a developer of data loss prevention software, for $350 million. The all-cash deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter Symantec said the purchase will complement its existing portfolio of endpoint and network security, storage and compliance software and adds a critical component to its Security 2.0 vision. Vontu's data monitoring and prevention software stops confidential data from being sent outside the organization through e-mail, the Internet or via instant messaging correspondence. It also keeps confidential data from being copied to removable media or downloaded on local drives and provides a central platform for all policy management, detection and data remediation processes. "In a business environment that is increasingly competitive, transparent and regulated, companies need confidence that their most valuable asset%26#151;information%26#151;is safe," Tom Kendra, president of Symantec's security and data management group, said in a statement announcing the acquisition. "Only then will security become more a business enabler rather than a business inhibitor." Symantec said the acquisition will results in a two-cents a share reduction in its fiscal 2008 earnings. The data management and protection industry has undergone significant consolidation in the past few years. Last year, McAfee made a similar purchase, acquiring privately held Onigma Ltd. for $20 million in cash to round out its McAfee Data Loss Prevention software suite. Two months later, security software maker Websense ponied up $90 million in cash for PortAuthority Technologies, a startup firm that developed information-leak prevention software. IDC estimates companies will spend more than $3.2 billion by 2011 on software to prevent identity theft and data loss from corporate computers and databases. Symantec shares closed off 15 cents a share, or less than one percent, to $18.36 ahead of the news and trimmed another 3 cents a share in after-hours trading Monday evening.

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