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EIA Promotes the Latest in Recycling: Electronics
When consumers are done with their electronic products, most of them will either throw the particular device away or put it in a storage room in their house where it will most likely never be touched again. To give consumers more options when it comes to disposing of their electronic devices, the EIA (Electronic Industries…
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OSIsoft Unveils High Availability Data History System
Enterprise storage management software provider OSIsoft unveiled Jan. 2 an update to its High Availability PI System, the company’s flagship real-time data historian platform. The new platform provides improved data protection through fault-tolerant software that delivers interface failover, buffering, server replication and software development services, an OSIsoft spokesperson said. The PI System is the core…
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Research: IM Malware Attacks on the Rise
With 41 new attacks carried out during the month of December alone, 2006 proved to be a significant growth year for threats distributed over instant messaging systems. According to a new research report produced by security software maker Akonix Systems, in San Diego, experts at the company unearthed some 406 new IM-borne threats over the…
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Five Hackers Who Left a Mark on 2006
In the security year that was 2006, zero-day attacks and exploits dominated the headlines. However, the year will be best remembered for the work of members of the hacking—er, security research—community who discovered and disclosed serious vulnerabilities in the technologies we take for granted, forced software vendors to react faster to flaw warnings and pushed…
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Organization of SMB Solution Providers Looks to Grow
A growing community of small and midsize business owners has no plans to slow down in 2007. Armed with a new Web-based membership portal, the leaders of the Mobilize SMB Private Services Network are hoping to expand the group’s ranks in the new year. “MSPSN provides the framework for the SMB solution provider community to…
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Inside eBay’s Innovation Machine
Business is steady on an early December afternoon at the iSold It consignment store on Skeet Club Road in High Point, N.C., as customers drop off items to be sold on eBay. Bikes, electronics, power tools—a steady flow of stuff, forming a tributary to the nearly $50 billion flood of goods and services that will…
