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Friday, January 28, 2011

In the News

This week also brought a lot of interesting headlines. Some of the more interesting ones included:

* Facebook is the most blocked and 2nd most whitelisted application. Which goes to show you organizations can't decide how to treat social networking yet. As an FYI, Youtube was the most whitelisted.

* The EU cleared Intel's purchase of McAfee. The only caveat was Intel had to promise to keep the software compatible with other vendors, and not embed it their chips and make it proprietary to their hardware.

* At this same time this week, Symantec took a jab at McAfee, with Enrique Salem, Symantec's CEO claiming a lot of enterprise wins over McAfee, claiming that McAfee is "distracted".

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