Software

Cisco SEO John T. Chambers

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Cisco, a world leader in the field of information technology and in particular the provision of networking products, announced it has reached an agreement for the acquisition of Sourcefire, Inc., a company specializing in network security solutions. Cisco will pay $76 for each Sourcefire share, about 30% more than the value they had at the closing of the American Stock Exchange on Monday. The total value of the acquisition is $2.7 billion.

Comparison between a healthy brain, on the left, and one affected by Alzheimer's disease, on the right

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A software designed to process images taken by satellites has been adapted to be used in the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. This new software, called AlzTools 3D Slicer, was created by a team of Elecnor Deimos in Spain, a company that operates in several fields of advanced technology. Developers have taken advantage of years of experience in developing software on behalf of ESA’s Envisat satellite mission.

Mozilla Foundation logo (Image courtesy Mozilla Foundation. All rights reserved)

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On 15 July 2003 the Mozilla Foundation was created. It’s a non-profit organization that aims to support the development of the Mozilla project. It’s basically the successor of the Mozilla Organization, founded in 1998 to develop the Mozilla Application Suite, a product of Netscape Communications Corporation formed by the web browser Navigator, the e-mail / newsgroup client Communicator and the software for the development of web pages Composer.

Douglas Engelbart in 2008

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On Tuesday the computer science pioneer, best known for the invention of the mouse, Douglas Engelbart passed away on Tuesday. He also work on other technologies currently used every day such as a graphical user interface but also on the precursor of the Internet.

Waze 3.5 screen shot underi iOS 6

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Google has officially announced the acquisition of Waze, the application for social navigation. For several days there had been rumors about this deal and the doubts were due essentially to an interest by Facebook as well to buy it. The amount of money that will be paid hasn’t been declared officially: the rumors of the past few days were talking about $1.3 billion, now it seems to be around $1 billion.