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Will F5’s Security Push Reach Firewall ‘Perimeter’?

Following a rebound year, F5 Networks touts security products as the main engine that will keep its revenue growing at double-digit rates. One question on Wall Street, though, is whether F5 Networks’ (FFIV) security push will expand from the data center, where F5’s application delivery controllers (ADCs) give it the inside track to win add-on business, to corporate firewalls that sit between private networks and the Internet. F5 Networks is the

Sports Fans Get New Experiences With Apps

Having spent the better part of a decade trying to perfect the so-called “second-screen” experience for fans watching at home, professional sports teams are rolling out mobile applications built for a much more captive audience: fans actually attending games. Sports executives say they’ve designed newer stadiums to take full advantage of the mobile technology explosion, and that as a result the in-stadium experience will never be the same — they

Christmas Day Not Jolly For Online Sales; Growth Down

Cyber cash registers rang less loudly on Christmas Day, as traffic slowed after a flood of early season discounts prodded more people to avoid being procrastinators. U.S. online sales rose 8.3% on Thursday vs. Dec. 25, 2013, just half the 16.5% year-over-year jump last Christmas, says IBM’s (IBM) Smarter Commerce, which tracks sales from 800 websites in the U.S. Online sales growth also tumbled on Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday and Cyber Monday.