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Global Gaming Factory X AB, a Swedish software company, has agreed to acquire The Pirate Bay video-sharing Web site — whose owners are under fire for brokering copyrighted content — for nearly $7.8 million. Pirate Bay is one of the largest video-sharing sites on the Internet. The site has more than 20 million visitors and more than one billion searches per month.

Mozilla on Tuesday released a Web browser that it said is 10 times faster than its original browser. One year after releasing Firefox 3.0, the Mountain View, Calif.-based nonprofit released Firefox 3.5, which it said is two times faster than Firefox 3.0 and 10 times faster than Firefox 2

Rohnert Park, Calif., June 30, 2009 –- Red Condor, the award-winning provider of fully managed email security solutions, today announced the results of a recent third-party head-to-head anti-spam effectiveness and feature comparison test between Red Condor Message Assurance Gateway 2700 (MAG2700) and Google Inc.’s Message Security powered by Postini.

Burlington, Mass., June 30th, 2009 -– Veracode Inc., provider of the world’s leading Application Risk Management Platform, today announced expansion of its SecurityReview® cloud-based subscription service to support mobile applications. With more than 100,000 mobile applications already in the market and millions of mobile users accessing critical business data, the security risk posed by these applications is staggering

SAN MATEO, Calif., June 30, 2009 — Lucid Imagination, a commercial company dedicated to supporting open source Apache Lucene and Solr search technologies, and ISYS Search Software, a global supplier of information access and discovery solutions for mining intelligence and corporate knowledge, today announced a strategic partnership. The agreement enables Lucid Imagination to provide enterprise-class solutions that combine its core Lucene and Solr expertise with the ISYS File Readers document filtering technology.

Paris Hilton we understand — but Garfield? China’s mandated Green Dam software rates some images of the scantily clad heiress and the cartoon cat as morally bad. While the software that must be installed on all new PCs sold in China is meant to block pornography and violent images, it also blocks other things

Comcast launched a high-speed wireless data service in Portland on Tuesday as the first step in what the cable-TV network operator expects to eventually become a nationwide rollout — with Atlanta, Chicago and Philadelphia expected to go online later this year. Called Comcast High-Speed 2go, the new 4G service will operate over Clearwire’s WiMAX infrastructure in the Portland metropolitan area and elsewhere over Sprint Nextel’s nationwide 3G network

People may not camp out on the street to get a copy of Windows 7, but the latest version of Microsoft’s flagship operating system is ringing up pre-orders. Amazon.com is offering discounts of 50 percent or more on pre-orders of Windows 7, with limits of three copies per customer on the Home Premium and Professional upgrades. Currently, Windows 7 is the best-selling software on Amazon and is also leading the charge in the entire electronics category

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Herndon, VA and Dublin, Ireland, June 30, 2009 — Vordel, the XML networking management company, today announced the Vordel Gateway Cloud Edition which provides interoperability for Cloud Computing platforms including Amazon, Force.com, and Google. Interoperability is particularly important for Cloud Computing since organizations wish to take advantage of the great cost-savings on offer, but without becoming locked-in to a single Cloud Computing vendor. In particular, it is of interest to the U.S