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Daily Channel Briefing
Microsoft’s Small Business Server 2008 public preview is now available, the company reports in one of its corporate blogs. The actual site where you can check it out is located here. This is the long-awaited and long-overdue update to the 2003 version of Windows Small Business Server. Pricing and specs are available here. http://blogs.msdn.com/mssmallbiz/archive/2008/05/13/8500555.aspx Dell‘s…
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The Security Risks of Web 2.0 and Wireless
My early experiences as a reporter involved a typewriter. The very concept seems so remote it’s hard to believe at one time a small mistake would lead to unscrewing the cap off the White-Out or crumpling barely used sheets of paper. In a corner of my memory, I can still smell the White-Out and the…
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Size Matters, and Small Rules; California Mulls IT Services Tax; more…
Keep your eye on the small gadget, says Intel CEO Paul Otellini. In an interview with the Associated Press, the chip executive says there’s a groundswell of interest around small, cheap, internet-connected devices. “I’ve not seen energy like this from our customers in a long long time,” he tells AP. And that enthusiasm is also…
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How Technology Can Help the Environment
As environmental sustainability moves to the global forefront, social and political pressure on businesses to become more environmentally responsible is increasing. Enterprises are looking for solutions that create environmental benefits now, while continuing to address critical business imperatives: lowering costs, retaining and growing their customer base, increasing market share, and boosting shareholder value. However, what…
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VARs Need to Adjust VOIP Focus
VOIP is hot. It’s hard to find anyone to argue that. Solution providers are doing a brisk business especially in the SMB space wooing clients over to IP telephony. The latest figures from the Dell’Oro Group show VOIP adoption jumping 30 percent year over year among SMBs. But the driving force behind many of those…
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NAC: Not So Fast
The network access control market has come a long way in a relatively short time—since 2000 or so—but it still has a long way to go before it hits mass adoption. Before the technology becomes a hot-selling commodity, two things need to happen: A single set of industry standards must emerge, and solutions must become…