Year: 2009

  • Google Chrome: The Official Start of the Cloud Era

    Lawrence Walsh

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     Google is getting a ho-hum reaction from the IT world following last week’s release of the Chrome OS, its attempt at an operating system designed for cloud-based applications and contender to the Microsoft desktop crown. Critics and skeptics, however, have labeled Chrome with such tarnishing descriptors as dull, uninspired, lackluster and ne’er-do-well. Microsoft has issued… Read more

  • Apple Voids Warranties of Smoking Mac Owners

    Lawrence Walsh

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    Everyone knows smoking cigarettes and other tobacco products causes numerous forms of cancer. But can cigarette smoke contaminate an inanimate object with carcinogens? Apparently, that’s what Apple and its authorized repair shops believe.   The Consumerist reports receiving at least two complaints from Mac owners who were refused warranty service because the owners were smokers.… Read more

  • Global Warming Email Hack Reveals Value of Routine Correspondence

    Lawrence Walsh

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     Several solution providers and security vendors have told me of late that the biggest stumbling block in selling protection technology to SMBs is their perception that they have nothing to protect. Perhaps that’s true since the value of the information is in the eyes of the owner, and many don’t consider email to be necessarily… Read more

  • Understanding the State of Endpoint Security

    Understanding the State of Endpoint Security

    Ericka Chickowski

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    Understanding the State of Endpoint Security What You Need to Know About the State of Endpoint SecurityBy Ericka Chickowski No Title The Ponemon Institute recently conducted a study on behalf of Lumension to take the pulse of decision makers from both IT security and IT operations groups about endpoint management and security. Unsurprisingly, Ponemon found… Read more

  • Google Chrome OS to Boot PC Within 7 Seconds

    Channel Insider Staff

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    (Reuters) – New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television can be turned on, the search company said on Thursday as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for PCs that do their work on the Web Google gave the first public look at its Chrome OS four… Read more

  • CA Channel Exec Wants Partners Back From Symantec

    Carolyn April

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    Adam Famularo wants his partners back. Plain and simple. As senior vice president and general manager for CA’s Recovery Management & Data Modeling business unit, Famularo didn’t mince words in a recent interview with Channel Insider when he discussed the renewed momentum he’s seeing around the company’s back-up and recovery products and just how badly… Read more