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Arrow Extends EU Reach with U.K. Acquisition
Distributor Arrow Electronics extended its reach into Europe, completing Dec. 29 the $80 million acquisition of InTechnology’s distribution arm in the United Kingdom, Arrow announced. The pick-up gives Melville, N.Y.-based Arrow a presence in the United Kingdom, Europe’s second largest IT market, where Arrow had previously been unrepresented and boosts it’s position as a security…
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Gentag Patent Adds RFID Sensor Network Feature to Mobile Devices
Gentag, which bills itself as an IP development company, announced Dec. 28 that it has been issued a patent for a way to add sensor networks to RFID readers in wireless devices such as cell phones, PDAs and laptops. The RFID Based Sensor Networks patent, numbered 7148804, provides the basis for the creation of RFID…
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Kaspersky Ships Vista AV Support
Software maker Kaspersky Lab has released its initial anti-virus products that support Microsoft’s new Vista operating system. Shipped on Dec. 28, the software is a beta version of a maintenance update for Kaspersky’s Anti-Virus 6.0 and Internet Security products that includes the new support for Vista, which was introduced by Microsoft in mid-November 2006. While…
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10 Years Gone: IBM Reappears at CES
It has been a decade since IBM showed up at the Consumer Electronics Show. That 10-year absence will come to an end in a few weeks, after Big Blue opens its booth on the showroom floor at the 2007 CES show in Las Vegas. Since last showing up at the CES in 1997, a lot…
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Report: Job Benefits Burden to Fall on Workers
2007 will bring greater expectations of responsibility and self-financing of benefits for U.S. workers, according to a report issued Dec. 28 by Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a Washington-based global consulting firm. Among the health care benefit trends predicted in the report is an increased focus on HDHPs (high-deductible health care plans) coupled with reimbursement arrangements such…
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Ribstone, Scientigo Team on Indexing Software
Ribstone Systems announced Dec. 29 that along with Scientigo, it will release its indexing and data reviewing software designed to help law firms store, search and find documents. This offering from the Chicago, Ill. developer of document capture and image processing software, will also offer law firms a way to document indexed photo copied documents.…
