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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…
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The Man Behind Microsoft’s Expression
Forest Key is leading Microsoft into uncharted territory for the software giant: the land of professional design tools. After years of continual leadership in the developer tools space, Microsoft is marching in with a set of tools for designers, having announced its Expression suite last month. Key, who is director of product management for Microsoft’s…
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The New Threats Are on the Server
When I think of the prototypical botnet, I think of cable modem users with teenagers downloading programs that they assume to be other things. There are many other typical scenarios, and while they’re perfectly accurate, it’s probably true that most bots are hijacked broadband PCs. But there is another type of dangerous botnet out there…
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Microsoft to Make Vista Easier to Buy Online
Microsoft is making it easier for customers to buy, upgrade and license multiple copies of Windows Vista online. The Redmond, Wash. software maker will unveil three new programs on Jan. 18 designed to give users additional flexibility in the ways they can go online to get Vista, which will be widely available on Jan. 30.…
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HP Campaign Bows to New Marketing Dynamic
For years now solution providers have been prodding vendors to do something more meaningful in the way of advertising beyond just creating branding campaigns or offers around specific products. For all intents and purposes, branding campaigns are vendor chest-thumping exercises that generally fail to promote any new commercial activity, while product advertising tends to emphasize…
