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Gates and Jobs Battle it Out in Top 10 Influencers
The battles between Microsoft and Apple have hit their CEOs, as the two companies’ respective chiefs were named the industry’s most influential personalities, top and second, respectively, of the past 25 years, according to a poll by the Computing Technology Industry Association. Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, claimed the top spot on the most influential…
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Microsoft to Fix Two Windows Holes on Patch Tuesday
Patch Tuesday will bring two security bulletins from Microsoft, one of which is critical and involves a remotely exploitable hole on Windows systems, the other of which is rated important and also affects Windows. eEye’s Zero-Day Tracker, as of Nov. 9, is listing three active zero-day Windows and Internet Explorer vulnerabilities, all of which have…
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Selling Security: Forget FUD
Headlines of the security holes in Mac OS X Leopard and a Trojan targeting Mac machines once would have been enough to warrant security VARs and vendors racing to the streets with their fixes and wares for sealing a breach in the castle walls. The conversation usually goes this way: “If something bad hasn’t happened…
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Intel Moving Ahead with WiMax Plans
Intel will continue plans to build WiMax technology into its silicon despite news of Sprint Nextel and Clearwire ending plans for a nationwide WiMax network. Sprint Nextel and Clearwire in July said they planned to connect their WiMax networks and offer services to as many as 100 million people by the end of next year.…
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One Year On: VARs on Vista
It’s been almost a year since Microsoft took the covers off its new operating system, Windows Vista. The Enterprise Edition launched to much fanfare from the software giant; however, the celebrations may have been short-lived as some VARs are reporting that even 12 months down the line deployment rates are low. At Jenaly Technology Group,…
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IBM Goes Gaga over VIP
Hardware may be out of fashion, but it is still proving profitable for IBM, after the vendor announced it has driven $76 million in new revenue and doubled the number of new customers choosing its System I platform in the past 10 months. The reason for the upturn, according to David Kinsey, VIP sales manager…
