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Lenovo Acknowledges Delays in ThinkPad Tablet Shipments
If you wanted to be one of the first to try out Lenovo’s new ThinkPad X60 Tablet PC, you might have to wait a little longer. The Raleigh, N.C., PC maker disclosed on its official company blog that due to shortages of the panels used in the X60’s display, the new tablet will not start…
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AMD Pushes New Motherboard Format
LAS VEGAS—Small-form-factor PCs are becoming a mainstay for desktop PCs. Even high-end gamers have gravitated to smaller-form-factor PCs, which typically take up less room and consume less power. AMD is looking to gain market share in 2007. Click here to read more. However, there’s no widely adopted format for SFF motherboards smaller than MicroATX in…
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SharePoint Server 2007 Is an (Able) Jack of All Trades
When a product attempts to combine the functionality of many applications into one overarching platform, it’s inevitable that clichés about kitchen sinks and Swiss Army knives will pop up. And you’ll usually hear that these products can do many things but no one thing well. With Microsoft’s Office SharePoint Server 2007, many of the Swiss…
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The Ever More Diversified Face of IT
Just how diverse is IT in the United States today? It depends on who you ask. Some will say, “More than ever,” and tell you about companies that are itching for a mixed breed of recruits, that will brag about their minority representation and that consider it a great bonus to have dozens of cultures…
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Info Thieves Take Aim at the Enterprise
Among the long list of bills reintroduced with the opening of the U.S. Congress on Jan. 5 were two filed by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., aimed at forcing companies to better protect consumer information and publicly report any potential mishandlings. However, according to a range of IT security researchers, businesses should be just as afraid…
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Oracle Borrows Security Notice Method from Microsoft
Borrowing a page directly from Microsoft’s playbook, Oracle has implemented an advance notice mechanism for its quarterly release of security patches. Beginning with the first CPU (Critical Patch Update) for 2007, due on Jan. 16, the database server giant is implementing a CPU Pre-Release Announcement that includes the name of version numbers of Oracle products…
