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Risky Employee Behavior on Web Threatens Networks
Research by FaceTime Communications has found risky Internet activity by employees poses an increasing threat to network security for corporate enterprises. While the number of unique malware instances was down last year when compared with the 2000 identified in 2005, FaceTime researchers warn today’s malware is stealthier, more complex and harder to identify and defend…
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New Sprint Phones Tap Two Networks
Sprint Nextel is shipping a series of devices that combine the company’s CDMA voice and data services with its iDEN-based push-to-talk services. Sprint’s PowerSource phones provide both network redundancy and improved performance over phones that just use one or the other of the company’s two networks, company officials said. The first two phones in the…
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eWEEK Corporate Partners
Advisory Board Members Sam Inks Aerojet Francine M. Siconolfi Aetna Inc. Glenn Evans AT&T Kevin Levesque ATX II LLC Michael Skaff Bare Escentuals Frank Calabrese Bose Corp. Kevin R. Baradet Cornell University Carl S. Ashkin Darby Group Cos. Craig L. Lush Defense Acquisition University Randy Dugger …
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HP Keeps Top PC Spot in Q4
For the second straight quarter, Hewlett-Packard beat out Dell as the No. 1 vendor of PCs in the world, according to research firms IDC and Gartner. In the fourth quarter of 2006, HP shipped more than 11 million PC units worldwide, while Dell shipped about 9.5 million, according to the two reports that were released…
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SpectraLink Releases Wi-Fi Phone Application for Retail
SpectraLink will begin providing a version of its NetLink Softphone application for use with both Windows Mobile and Windows PocketPC operating systems this quarter, the company said. This allows customers to provide a wireless VOIP (voice over IP) version of a full business telephone to users of the handheld devices, which means that users of…
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Microsoft: Vista Could Be a Windfall for NJ/NY VARs
Within its first year of shipment, Windows Vista is expected to make 4.7 million computers its home, drive 21,000 new IT jobs and generate $9.5 billion in New York and New Jersey, according to an IDC report commissioned by Microsoft, released Jan. 16. Vista’s impact on the market will reach far beyond Microsoft, the study…
