Year: 2006

  • Report: CDW, Direct-Market Distributors Running on Strong Margins

    John Hazard

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    Direct-market IT distributors such as CDW, Insight and PC Connection are outpacing their peers on the Nasdaq and S&P boards on strong margins and acquisitions, says a report by Raymond James and Associates. The distributors beat their market averages in growth during the third quarter but face challenges and slower growth in the next three… Read more

  • Iomega Unveils New Desktop Autoloader

    Iomega Unveils New Desktop Autoloader

    Elizabeth Millard

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    Data storage and protection company Iomega has begun shipping the second-generation version of its popular desktop autoloader, which uses removable disks for data archiving. The REV Loader 560 incorporates standard hard drive components and removable technology, and provides access to 560GB of native storage. Up to eight removable disks can fit in the compact device,… Read more

  • Bin Laden Webmaster Arrested

    Bin Laden Webmaster Arrested

    Evan Schuman

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    Early Tuesday morning, reports started circulating that German police had arrested a man they had accused of being Osama bin Laden’s webmaster. It was at that moment that I realized how different a war this is and how the Internet—and particularly its multimedia-friendly Web component—has truly changed all.Imagine if during World War II, French law… Read more

  • War Robots Invade Washington

    War Robots Invade Washington

    Wayne Rash

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    WASHINGTON—You know you’re visiting a different kind of trade show when the signs for the new GUI on a product refer to an automatic weapon. You get a better idea when you find yourself standing beneath the main gun of the new Stryker mobile weapons system. But it really hits home when you visit the… Read more

  • Oracle Settles Lawsuit with Federal Government

    Oracle Settles Lawsuit with Federal Government

    Scott Ferguson

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    Oracle has agreed to pay $98.5 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed PeopleSoft overcharged the federal government for software it purchased during an eight-year period, the Department of Justice announced Oct. 10. The lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in Maryland, claimed that the GSA (General Services Administration) overpaid for PeopleSoft software from… Read more

  • Microsoft Goes After Adobe

    Microsoft Goes After Adobe

    Darryl K. Taft

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    Formerly noncommittal Microsoft has come out swinging in relation to Adobe Systems with a video that compares Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005 to Adobe’s Dreamweaver 8. However, it’s something of an apples-to-pears or an oranges-to-lemons comparison, in that Visual Studio is an all-purpose integrated development environment and Dreamweaver, although it has IDE capabilities, is primarily known… Read more