Year: 2006

  • Labs Sees Light at the End of Vista Testing Tunnel

    Labs Sees Light at the End of Vista Testing Tunnel

    Jason Brooks

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    It’s been a long and winding road, but the Microsoft Windows Vista release that’s been floating vaguely in the near future (for years now) finally appears to be close at hand. First, though, comes what eWEEK Labs hopes to be the last in an extended line of next-generation Windows client test builds: 5744, also known… Read more

  • Trend Micro Offers Security Appliance to Protect E-Mail Networks

    Trend Micro Offers Security Appliance to Protect E-Mail Networks

    Matt Hines

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    Responding to demand from its customers for more hardware-based systems, Trend Micro introduced its new integrated messaging security appliance on Oct. 9, the final piece of the company’s strategy to build devices to host each of its software products. Dubbed the InterScan Messaging Security Appliance, the device promises to help companies protect their e-mail networks… Read more

  • Finally, Microsoft Will Separate Vista Users from the Desktop

    Finally, Microsoft Will Separate Vista Users from the Desktop

    Andrew Garcia

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    Amid the hullabaloo about how intrusive Vista’s User Account Control feature will be to the average user, Microsoft has been quietly ramping up the support infrastructure needed to help companies adopt it. eWEEK Labs’ work with UAC shows that more work lies ahead, however. With Vista’s UAC, Microsoft has finally gotten serious about securing the… Read more

  • T-Mobile to Announce 3G Service

    T-Mobile to Announce 3G Service

    Wayne Rash

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    T-Mobile USA CEO Robert Dotson will announce T-Mobile’s move into 3G service at a press conference in New York on Oct. 6. Dotson will report on the results of the company’s recent spectrum auction win, including substantial space on the 1.7 and 2.1 GHz bands, and the expansion of available spectrum in the company’s 1.9GHz… Read more

  • Arrow to Acquire Niche Distributor Alternative Technologies

    Arrow to Acquire Niche Distributor Alternative Technologies

    John Hazard

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    Arrow Electronics is broadening its solution scope. The distributor announced on Oct. 5 its intention to purchase Alternative Technology, a niche distributor with specialties in infrastructure, networking and security. The acquisition, expected to be fulfilled sometime in November, does little to Arrow’s numbers—Alternative Technology made $330 million in sales in 2005 compared to Arrow’s $11.1… Read more

  • Security Vendors Reject Microsoft’s Call for Innovation

    Security Vendors Reject Microsoft’s Call for Innovation

    Matt Hines

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    Microsoft contends that its partners should embrace the security features being added to its Vista operating system instead of complaining about them, but software makers including Symantec and McAfee said that the company’s mandate for new product innovation only benefits its own interests. At the crux of the dispute is Microsoft’s contention that controversial security… Read more