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RSS Offers Relief from Enterprise E-Mail Overload
We can’t live with e-mail; we can’t live without it. Indispensable to most businesses today, e-mail can be a millstone around the necks of office workers and the corporate IT professionals who serve them. Bloated in-boxes conceal rather than expose critical e-mail messages, and vast archives of spam and useless messages clog servers and network…
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Vista Aims to Stop Hackers’ Social Engineering Ploys
Microsoft says the Windows operating system software is not the weakest link in desktop security, and contends that Windows Vista will help limit the greatest vulnerability of all—users’ bad decision-making. While previous iterations of Microsoft’s dominant operating system hit the market with an abundance of security loopholes that left users open to many different forms…
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Dell Wants to Show Its Rugged Side
Dell wants to show its customers that its notebooks can be tough too. The Round Rock, Texas, PC maker is launching on Jan. 16 its first-ever “semi-rugged” notebook—the Latitude ATG (all-terrain grade) D620—which will compete for market share against well-known rugged models such as the Panasonic ToughBook and General Dynamics’ Itronix GoBook. In creating a…
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HP Targets Dell with Ad Campaign Showcasing VARs
Hewlett-Packard put Dell customers in its sights this month with a two-tier advertising campaign designed to promote the value that those buying directly from a vendor could gain by switching to a VAR for products and services. National ads proclaiming, “What could be more direct than face to face?” and “Meet your friendly neighborhood technology…
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Sun Restructures Solaris Channel, Subscriptions
Sun Microsystems has launched a suite of new Solaris support subscriptions and restructured its reseller program as it moves to aggressively compete with its commercial Linux competitors like Red Hat. “We are delivering a whole new suite of service packages that will make us competitive against our Linux competitors like Red Hat,” Peder Ulander, the…
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uXcomm Brings SOA Flexibility to Management Framework
Systems management platform provider uXcomm on Jan. 17 will launch a new architecture and products based on it that are designed to be to management applications what SOA is to business applications. The new SOMA (Service-Oriented Management Architecture) and follow-on uXcomm XManage Server Edition and XManage Information Appliance Edition products based on SOMA are aimed…
