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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…
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First Mac Tablet Arrives—and It’s Not from Apple
SAN FRANCISCO – Long-time Apple reseller Other World Computing and Axiotron, a manufacturing contractor, announced what it called “the One and Only Mac Tablet” computer at this year’s Macworld Conference and Expo here. The Axiotron ModBook is not a Mac clone, but a stock Apple MacBook modified into tablet form. More specifically designed in a…
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Latest CrossOver Release Supports Linux, Adds Mac
Although you’ve always been able to run some Windows programs on Linux thanks to the Wine Project, CodeWeavers made that easier to do with its CrossOver Office line. Now, in a major new release and name change, CodeWeavers is introducing CrossOver Linux 6.0 and CrossOver Mac 6.0. Both programs let users run many popular Windows…
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New E-Commerce Package Automatically Removes Products
Mercado Software is set to introduce software that will—without human intervention—add and remove products based on inventory and item profit margins. The company plans to launch the new software package, called Mercado 4, the week of Jan. 15. While various vendors have offered integration between Web analytics and e-commerce platforms, Mercado’s new offering is significant…
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5 Questions for New Teradata CEO Michael Koehler
NCR announced plans this week to spin off its Teradata data-warehousing subsidiary as an independent company. NCR, which is best known as a provider of ATMs and retail checkout machines, had sales of $4.5 billion in 2005, excluding Teradata. The Teradata division, one of the biggest players in the data warehousing and business intelligence market,…
