Year: 2005
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D-Link Faces Branding Battle as It Moves Upstream in Business Market
Categories: News and TrendsD-Link, primarily known for its network switches and routers in the consumer market, may be coming to an office near you. Actually, it may already be there and you don’t even know it. As many as 12 percent of businesses with 1,000 or more employees say they use D-Link equipment in their WLAN (wireless LAN),… Read more
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Software Giants Help Channel Serve Lucrative SMB Market
Categories: News and TrendsSmall and midsize businesses spend little on security initiatives, but resellers willing to educate their customers can make that percentage grow, according to a recent survey by Forrester Research. The bad news is that the high spenders—about 28 percent of the total number of North American SMBs surveyed—spend between 2 percent and 4 percent of… Read more
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Industry Survey Shows SMBs Lack Minimal Security
Categories: News and TrendsSean Stenovich often sees his small and midsize business clients pick and choose their security solutions based on what they think they need and can afford. The result is a security plan that covers some areas but leaves many others exposed, said Stenovich, a principal at Dallas security solutions provider M&S Technologies. “They’re thinking [anti-virus]… Read more
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Skype Pushes Voice Further By Opening API
Categories: Tech CompaniesVOIP provider Skype said Wednesday that it plans to open up its network to outside developers, allowing voice-over-IM functionality to be included inside a number of disparate applications. Skype will publish its APIs and open its SkypeNet network next week, when the company celebrates its second anniversary. A second application, SkypeNet, will offer presence functionality.… Read more
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MGE Reloaded: The Titanium Case
Categories: Tech CompaniesWhen we received the MGE Titanium case for review, we didn’t know quite what to expect. In 2004, MGE launched two new product divisions, XG and ione, each with very different goals. XG, short for “Extreme Gamer,” targeted the “hardcore PC gamer” audience while ione focused on providing more-civilized products for “everyday lifestyles from the… Read more
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Intel Preps Mac OS X Developer Tools
Categories: Tech CompaniesIntel Corp. will port its software developer tools to Mac OS X and will ship its first beta later this year, the chip maker told developers on Tuesday at its first-ever session on Mac OS X at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Kevin Smith, director of Intel Compiler Labs, said that Intel will… Read more