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Shape of SAP’s Midmarket Suite Raises Questions
By this point it’s no secret that SAP is investing heavily in the midmarket. The company is planning to spend between $370 million and $493 million (from 300 million euros to 400 million euros) over the next eight quarters in building out a new suite of enterprise application software that is both agile and appealing…
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Siemens Unveils OpenScape for Lotus
Siemens Communications, a division of Siemens AG, announced that the company is extending its unified communications platform, OpenScape, to IBM’s Lotus Sametime. Currently OpenScape is designed to work with Microsoft products only. The new application, which features click-to-contact, click-to-conference, advanced presence, and instant messaging, is designed to work closely with Siemens SIP based telephony products,…
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RSA Survey Reports Low Level of Trust in Online Banking Security
RSA Security announced Jan. 25 the findings of its fourth annual Financial Institution Consumer Online Fraud Survey, which showed that online customers are not very confident when it comes to their online banking security. The survey, which was conducted in December 2006, asked 1,678 adults from eight countries about their opinions regarding different online fraud…
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Cisco Addresses Flaws in IOS
Cisco is providing patches for its popular Internetwork Operating System in response to the discovery of three flaws, the most serious of which would allow hackers to insert malicious code in order to corrupt devices running IOS. The company addressed the flaws in a series of advisories released Jan. 24. According to Cisco officials, the…
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LPIC-1 Linux Certification Training Available Online
Want a job working in Linux? Then one of your first steps should be to get an LPIC-1 (Linux Professional Institute first level) certification. In the past, getting this entry-level certification could be easier said than done, since classes aren’t available everywhere. Now, however, the SUNY (State University of New York) Linux Learning Collaborative, a…
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Cell Phone Giants Unveil Mobile Linux Foundation
Six of the world’s largest telecommunications companies have officially launched a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a common mobile Linux software platform. Founded by Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone, the LiMo Foundation is inviting membership and participation from application and middleware developers. The collaboration of giants now known as…
