Intel to Acquire McAfee, Moving Into Online Security

SAN FRANCISCO — Intel, the chip maker, has turned into Intel, the security specialist. Making one of most eye-catching moves in its 42-year history, Intel announced Thursday that it planned to acquire McAfee for $7.68 billion in cash.
Under the terms of the deal, Intel will pay $48 a share in cash, a 60 percent premium over McAfee’s Wednesday closing stock price of $29.93. The deal makes Intel a major player in the security software and services market. As such, Intel will shed some of its identity as a component supplier and climb higher up the technology food chain.
Intel expects the market for security technology to grow as electronic gadgets and things like cars and home appliances increase their computing power and tap into the Internet.
Analysts expect that many of the tools that McAfee provides today may be built-in to chips and devices over time.
“Eventually the software features will get embedded in the hardware,” said Ashok Kumar, a technology analyst with Rodman & Renshaw. “So, maybe this is an expensive way for Intel to acquire domain expertise.”
Heralding the acquisition as part of Intel’s transformation from a “PC company into a computing company,” Intel’s chief executive, Paul S. Otellini, said that security will only grow as a concern for consumers and businesses.
“This will better protect Internet users and their devices,” Mr. Otellini said, while talking to Wall Street analysts. The safer people feel using their more powerful gadgets, the more chips Intel is likely to sell With the rapid expansion of growth across a vast array of Internet-connected devices, more and more of the elements of our lives have moved online,” Mr. Otellini, said in a statement. “In the past, energy-efficient performance and connectivity have defined computing requirements. Looking forward, security will join those as a third pillar of what people demand from all computing experiences.”
Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, has recovered from the recession well, posting record sales in recent quarters. Its results have been aided by rising sales of PCs to both consumers and businesses, and the expanded use of servers and data centers. After its most recent quarter, Intel had about $12.2 billion in cash and short-term investments on hand.
Still, the company’s efforts to put new flavors of lower-power chips into smartphones, TVs, cars and other devices have been slow. As a result, investors have been reluctant to view Intel as a growth bet and continue to see the company as tied to the PC.
The company’s share price has fallen about 20 percent in the last five years, closing on Wednesday at $19.59 a share. McAfee shares were up 57.3 percent on Thursday. Intel shares fell 3.4 percent. With the rapid expansion of growth across a vast array of Internet-connected devices, more and more of the elements of our lives have moved online,” Mr. Otellini, said in a statement. “In the past, energy-efficient performance and connectivity have defined computing requirements. Looking forward, security will join those as a third pillar of what people demand from all computing experiences.”
Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, has recovered from the recession well, posting record sales in recent quarters. Its results have been aided by rising sales of PCs to both consumers and businesses, and the expanded use of servers and data centers. After its most recent quarter, Intel had about $12.2 billion in cash and short-term investments on hand.
Still, the company’s efforts to put new flavors of lower-power chips into smartphones, TVs, cars and other devices have been slow. As a result, investors have been reluctant to view Intel as a growth bet and continue to see the company as tied to the PC.
The company’s share price has fallen about 20 percent in the last five years, closing on Wednesday at $19.59 a share. McAfee shares were up 57.3 percent on Thursday. Intel shares fell 3.4 percent. With the rapid expansion of growth across a vast array of Internet-connected devices, more and more of the elements of our lives have moved online,” Mr. Otellini, said in a statement. “In the past, energy-efficient performance and connectivity have defined computing requirements. Looking forward, security will join those as a third pillar of what people demand from all computing experiences.”
Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, has recovered from the recession well, posting record sales in recent quarters. Its results have been aided by rising sales of PCs to both consumers and businesses, and the expanded use of servers and data centers. After its most recent quarter, Intel had about $12.2 billion in cash and short-term investments on hand.
Still, the company’s efforts to put new flavors of lower-power chips into smartphones, TVs, cars and other devices have been slow. As a result, investors have been reluctant to view Intel as a growth bet and continue to see the company as tied to the PC.
The company’s share price has fallen about 20 percent in the last five years, closing on Wednesday at $19.59 a share. McAfee shares were up 57.3 percent on Thursday. Intel shares fell 3.4 percent. Intel, however, has been bulking up its software arsenal. Last year, it bought Wind River for $884 million, giving it a software maker with a presence in the consumer electronics and wireless markets.
With McAfee, Intel will take hold of a company that sells antivirus software to consumers and businesses and a suite of more sophisticated security products and services aimed at corporations.
In addition, it gives the Silicon Valley veteran a potentially steadier revenue stream than it has found through the often booming and busting computer chip market, since much of the security software is sold on a subscription basis.
McAfee’s revenue rose 20 percent last year to $1.93 billion. Intel’s revenue fell 7 percent to $35.1 billion. At 80 percent, McAfee’s gross margins surpass Intel’s, which tend to be around 65 percent.
Intel builds a variety of security functions directly into its chips and has offered its customers ways to tap into the tools. McAfee’s technology goes well beyond what Intel currently offers.
The companies are both based in Santa Clara, Calif., with head offices about a mile from each other.

RIL is entering into Telecom enterprise business

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All students of Super30 crack IIT-JEE

All the 30 students of Super 30, Bihar's free coaching centre for poor students in Patna, cracked IIT-JEE this year."All the 30 students have cleared IIT-JEE," Anand Kumar, the institute's director-cum-founder said at a press conference on Wednesday. It is a matter of great pleasure as we have achieved it again, he said, adding that since the inception of the coaching centre in 2002, a total of 212 students have cleared IIT-JEE examination, which is considered as one of the toughest examinations in the world. "We are now going to expand this to 60 students, so that more people can benefit," he added.Kumar said the students hail from very poor families and commit themselves to a year of 16-hour study each day after passing a competitive test to get into the coaching centre.
The celebration after the results are also unique at the institute - a meal shared by all 30 students of Super 30. One of the students at the institute Richir Sinha said," I wish my rank was higher.""Now we will try to arrange loans for the education of the poor students who qualified for IITs," he said.Kumar, who himself missed a chance to study at Cambridge due to lack of money, gives full scholarships including room and travel to the students.When contacted Shubham Kumar Gautam from Nalanda, whose father is a poor farmer with income less than Rs 2500 per month, said he would not have been able to qualify for IIT had Super 30 not helped him.The institute figured in Best of Asia list of Time magazine a fortnight agoRead more at:

Shah Faisal of Kashmir role model for the youth of India, and particularly the Muslim Youth

Shah Faisal, a Doctor from Jamu and Kashmir, resident of Srinagar, topped Indian Administrative Examinations in India.
Breaking several myths and overcoming rather complicated geo-political situation around him, Shah Faesal, a doctor from Srinagar, has topped India’s top civil services examination 2009. Faesal, who prepared at Hamdard Study Circle, is at No. 1 among 875 successful candidates. The result was announced on 7th May 2010.
What is more striking about Faisal and his current achievement that he was a socially active youngster. He has been an active member of the RTI movement in Jammu Kashmir.
Faisal was coached by Saiyid Hamid, a retired officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and former vice chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University. Hamid now is secretary of the New Delhi-based Hamdard Education Society, which runs the Hamdard Study Circle. It was there that Faisal received his coaching.
Hamid was absolutely thrilled by his student’s success. “The Hamdard Study Circle has been in operation since 1991, and we have had many successes in the past. More than 220 students have qualified from our institute. The best result was when one of our students secured fourth place at the All-India level,” he said.
“However, nothing matches Faesal’s success. This is great news for us all,” he said.
Shah Faisal’s success story reminds the country yet again that adversities in life fail to destroy the determination of the strong.
A total of 875 candidates — 680 men and 195 women — were recommended for appointment to Indian Administrative Service, Indian Foreign Service, Indian Police Service and other central services. Besides Faesal, there are 20 Muslims on the list of 875 successful candidates. Among them are Mohammed Y. Safeerullah, Mohammed Shahid Alam, Rayees Mohammed Bhat, Muhammad Siddique Alam, Abid Khan, Abu Imran, Ashiquzzaman, Tamanna Alam, Mohammed Yusuf Qureshi, Mir Umair Nabi, Danish Ashraf, K. Asif Hafeez and Rizwan Ahmed.
A total of 409,110 students applied to take the test in 2009. Of those 193,091 appeared for the preliminary examination. Only 12,026 of them qualified for the written test, and then only 2,432 of them were short-listed for the all-important personality test, which was conducted in March and April this year.
Shah Faisal is a story of determination and reslove to fight against the odds, and face the world with a determined mind to make place to progress, in fields which generally are discarded by the Minority Community as Not a worth try, due to Myth that the Muslims of India will not be give a fair chance to reach to the postions of power in Indian Services.
Shah has proved them all wrong, by is determined effort, to excel so are the other 20 Muslims who qualified have proved by getting selected. Though the numbers are very low, in a 835 selected only 21 are Muslims. If we go through the statistics of participation by the Minorities and Specifically Muslim the paritcipation as such is very low. And when enquired by the authorities there are clear images of non participation by them in good numbers. We know the results are proportionate to numbers participated.
The big challenge is how to increse the numbers of Muslims and other Minorities paricipate in the compititive examinations in big numbers and across the Nation. There are many Study Circle and Coaching Intitutes to train student and encourage them to participate. This effort has to mulitplied and spreaded participation has to happen, with a great focus by the Communities.
There is a possibility there can be a difficulty in the initial stages of the compition but the result of Faisal has proved all those who think the authorities in a planned manner discourage or put to disadvantage the Minorities is has to be given a re think and understand we will this theory with value had there been a proper participation with big numbers.
Faisal and many such who passed and have excelled in services should be the role models to motivate the youth of the nation more importantly the Muslims and the other Minorities, and right talent is put in the fray of these comitivie examination to make mark, thus showing way forward the otherwise suffering, under performed, disadvantaged Minorities of India.
The Ranganth Commisision and Sachar Committee clearly indicated the socio economic conditions of the Minorities in the Country, in Particular the Muslim Minoriteis. In some area the representation is almost negligible. The only way is a joint effort by the Community and the authrities to break this and allow them to be active participants in the Main Stream by empowering them thru rightfull involment and place in the Administrative Services in Positions of Power and Performance.
The families should focus, to produce in each family there has to be at least one in Service from each Minorities Family. We motivate our children to do Doctorate, MBA, Engineering, Reach out to the American Universities , now it is high time we all need to make this a point to induct at least one of our family member in to Services. This is one big way to bring the needed change in the living Conditions of the Minorities of India.
And face the challenges of 21st Cenrutry with Confidence.

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