Recent Articles
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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…
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The Elusive True Multichannel Retailer
While walking the aisles and hitting the parties at the National Retail Federation annual show in New York this week, I did what I normally do, which is to beg CIOs to tell their thoughts and observations. I tried to hit as many of the most important topics as possible before the CIOs extracted themselves…
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A Peek into the Retail Storefront of Tomorrow
NEW YORK—The retail technology world is in transition, and nowhere is that as clear as at the industry’s largest gathering, the National Retail Federation’s tradeshow and conference here. There are primarily two transitions taking place. The first is an in-store transition, from a world where technology was virtually all behind the scenes as far as…
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Survey: Odds Are, You’re Working for a White Guy
Few U.S. workers report to either women or minorities, according to a survey released Jan. 17 by Hudson, a New York provider of recruitment services. More than three-quarters (76 percent) of U.S. workers report to a Caucasian boss, according to the result of the national poll of nearly 5,000 workers. Just one-third (34 percent) reported…
