Year: 2006
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Expert: Hackers Will Break Vista’s PatchGuard
Categories: News and TrendsMONTREAL—A computer security expert is predicting that hackers will crack the controversial PatchGuard kernel anti-tampering technology coming in Windows Vista within one year of its release. Alexander Czarnowski, chief executive of Avet, in Warsaw, Poland, said he believes it’s inevitable that the technology will be broken once the final version of Windows Vista is released… Read more
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Slide Show: VTN’s Afternoon Lip Sync
Categories: News and TrendsThey claim alcohol was not a factor. Maybe it should have been. It was the middle of the day, the California desert sun was still shining, the bar wasn’t even open, yet Ingram Micro event staffers persuaded otherwise reasonable men and women—Ingram Micro staff and VAR partners at Ingram’s Venture Tech Network Fall 2006 Invitational,… Read more
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Microsoft to PC Buyers: Don’t Wait for Vista
Categories: News and TrendsNEW YORK—If you are contemplating a PC purchase but concerned about waiting for Windows Vista, don’t wait, said Microsoft officials at the DigitalLife conference here. G. Michael Sievert, corporate vice president of Windows Client marketing at Microsoft, opened the DigitalLife conference on Oct. 12 with a keynote in which he laid out the company’s plans… Read more
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Common Sense on Vista Adoption
Categories: News and TrendsEvery time a new version of Windows comes out we dance the same dance about adoption rates. Microsoft promises large benefits to its enterprise customers. ISVs gear up support. Advocates for alternative operating systems talk about how this will be the version that gives them their foot in the door. With Vista it’s basically the… Read more
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Intel Announces WiMax Baseband Card
Categories: News and TrendsIntel has developed a WiMax baseband card designed for the carrier market that’s intended to give equipment manufacturers a platform for the creation of WiMax base stations. The new baseband card allows companies to make base station equipment for both the industrial and residential markets. It meets standards including the AdvancedMC hardware specification and the… Read more
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How to Fight Managed Services Commoditization
Categories: News and TrendsAs distributors carve a role for themselves in the smoldering managed services space, some proponents of the model have reason to worry. Those proponents include the reasonably exclusive group of solution providers that since the turn of the millennium has negotiated the frustration and reaped the advantages of pioneering a business model. On the one… Read more