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TJX Data Breach Raises Questions
When TJX Companies—the $16 billion global retail chain that owns T.J. Maxx and Marshalls, among many other brands—disclosed on Jan. 17 that it had “suffered an unauthorized intrusion” into its computer systems in December, it seemed to be forthcoming. After all, the chain issued what appeared to be a detailed statement about the incident. Detailed…
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IBM Turns Up Heat on Telecom Management Rivals
Underscoring the 25 percent growth reported on Jan. 18 by IBM’s Tivoli unit in its fourth quarter results is a strong push by IBM into portions of the telecommunications market. Coming up close on the one year anniversary of IBM’s $865 million acquisition of Micromuse, IBM has seen “incredible growth rates” from that acquisition, which…
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SAP Faces Challenges Ahead
SAP has had its share of ups and downs recently. On Jan. 11 the company disclosed fourth-quarter and full-year earnings for 2006 that will miss not only analyst expectations, but SAP’s own earlier predictions as well, when the full report comes out Jan. 24. There’s also a chance the company’s CEO may not renew a…
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3PAR Launches New ‘Green Storage’ Initiative
Storage provider 3PAR on Jan. 19 took the idea of “greening” the data center a step further by announcing that for every terabyte of its Thin Provisioning storage capacity it sells in 2007, 3PAR will purchase the equivalent cost in so-called “carbon credits” to help offset the greenhouse gas emissions of the disk drives required…
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Analyst: Linux Profits by Novell-Microsoft Deal
It’s no secret that many people in the Linux community dislike Novell’s recent Microsoft partnership. To some analysts, though, the deal is a feather in Novell’s market cap. Open-source activist Bruce Perens started an online petition to protest the deal. A group of people launched a Web site with a self-explanatory name, Boycott Novell. And,…
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Spammers’ Fake Newsletters Slip by E-Mail Filters
A new technique being employed by malicious spammers is testing the ability of e-mail filtering technologies to tell the difference between legitimate newsletter content and messages bearing unwanted advertisements and hidden links to malware sites. According to researchers at security software market leader Symantec, a new trend is rapidly emerging among bulk spammers where the…
