Year: 2006

  • Carrying the Load for Network Security

    Carrying the Load for Network Security

    Matt Hines

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    Overwhelmed by an onslaught of external threats that aim to take down or infiltrate their networks, enterprises are increasingly turning to their telecommunications carriers, ISPs and managed services providers to help stop attacks before they arrive. Companies are demanding that their providers offer a range of security protections as part of their licensing agreements. Alongside… Read more

  • Vista Breaks Applications

    Vista Breaks Applications

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    Microsoft really doesn’t want you to know this, but many of your existing applications won’t work with Vista. In fact, some brand new products won’t work with Vista. At the top of that list of “It doesn’t work,” we find, believe it or not, Microsoft new music player, Zune. Yes, that’s right; Microsoft’s iPod killer… Read more

  • VARs Want More Baby-sitting from CompTIA Roadmap

    VARs Want More Baby-sitting from CompTIA Roadmap

    John Hazard

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    Early users of CompTIA’s Reseller Transformation Roadmap Beta version, released in August, have said the process leaves to much of the shepherding and policing of progress to the VARs themselves. The roadmap, a Web-based program and guide to help resellers first assess the state of their business, such as what areas are profitable or unprofitable… Read more

  • Smith Micro Launches New Data Compression Software for Windows

    Patrick Hoffman

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    Smith Micro Software Inc. announced Nov. 21 that it has launched its latest data compression software that will be able to reduce the size of joint photographic experts group (JPEG) and allow users to be productive in a variety of management tasks. The data compression software developer out of Aliso Viejo, Calif. has released StuffIt… Read more

  • Microsoft Clarifies Novell ‘Patent Collaboration Agreement’

    Microsoft Clarifies Novell ‘Patent Collaboration Agreement’

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    In an unusually fast turnaround, Microsoft replied within hours to Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian’s “Open Letter to the Community from Novell.” In a statement, Microsoft acknowledges that Novell never agreed, as some critics of the deal have claimed, to Microsoft’s vague contentions of patent violations in Linux. In his open letter to the community, Hovsepian… Read more

  • Novell CEO Rebuffs Microsoft Claims

    Novell CEO Rebuffs Microsoft Claims

    Peter Galli

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    Just weeks after its controversial patent cooperation agreement with Microsoft, Novell is hitting out at statements made by Microsoft executives that the deal acknowledges that Linux infringes on its intellectual property. Novell has been under fire from many members of the Linux and open-source community since entering into a set of broad collaboration agreements with… Read more