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SSB recognized as Microsoft US Public Sector 2017 Partner of the Year Award Winner for Education

As it continues to help education institutions manage and structure data from all sources to address the important issues of constituent and internal engagement, full lifecycle management, and consistency in communications, SSB today proudly announced it has won the Microsoft

International Community Comes Together at OASIS to Advance OpenC2 Standard for Automated Defense Against Cyber-Attacks

Anomali, Arbor Networks, Centripetal, Cisco, Cryptsoft, EclecticIQ, FireEye, ForeScout, Fornetix, FS-ISAC, G2, IBM, LookingGlass, McAfee, NC4, NEC, New Context, Phantom, Swimlane, Tanium, ThreatQuotient, U.S. DoD, U.S. NSA, U.S. NIST, and

Acer Swift 7, the World’s Thinnest Notebook, Now Shipping and Available in the U.S.

The elegant black and gold Acer Swift 7 is a mere 0.39 inches thin and a featherweight 2.48 pounds, making it the world’s thinnest notebook PC. Acer today announced that its new ultrathin  Swift 7 , the world’s thinnest notebook, is now shipping and available in the U.S. The ultrathin Swift 7 features an aluminum unibody with rounded corners. Its gold inner surface contrasts elegantly with a matte black exterior, while an extra wide Precision

New Car Sales Still on Track to Set a Record in 2016 Despite Small Decline in May, Says Edmunds.com

SANTA MONICA, Calif. , Edmunds.com, the leading car information and shopping network, forecasts that 1,537,436  new cars  and trucks will be sold in the U.S. in May for an estimated Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate (SAAR) of 17.5 million. The projected sales will be a 2.3 percent increase from  April 2016 , but a 5.8 percent decrease from  May 2015 . While sales appear to be slowing, Edmunds says that 2016 is still on track to break last year's record of 17.47 million new car sales. "It's easy to look at May's sales and conclude that the retail car market is losing steam, but it's too soon to say for sure that auto sales are leveling off," says Edmunds.com Director of Industry Analysis  Jessica Caldwell . "As in previous years, the summer months will flush out more incentives from automakers and the urgency that shoppers show in responding to these incentives will give the industry a much better sense of how the market is trending." ...

Talen Energy one of largest U.S. independent power producers Begins Scheduled Refueling Outage at Unit 1

Operators at Talen Energy's Susquehanna nuclear power plant disconnected the Unit 1 reactor from the electrical grid late  Friday, March 11  into early  Saturday, March 12   to begin a scheduled refueling and maintenance outage.