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Be Resolved to Do Better Marketing
It’s that time of year where everyone makes some sort of New Year’s resolution about improving their business only to see it go by the wayside inside of the first two weeks of January. Given the fact that many solution provider companies are run by people who turned a technology avocation into an actual vocation,…
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Great Expectations for January’s Job Market
There will be more job growth in the manufacturing and service sectors in January 2007 than in January 2006, according to the findings of a collaborative report from the Alexandria, Va.-based Society for Human Resource Management and the Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations, released Dec. 26. Firms continue to face considerable difficulty…
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Samsung Unveils Gigabit-Density Mobile DRAM
Samsung Electronics officials announced Dec. 27 the company has crafted a 1G bit Mobile Dynamic Random Access Memory chip using 80nm process technology. The new chip, company officials said, will be more cost-effective than other high density mobile solutions and used for a wide range of advanced handset applications as well as for digital still…
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Bribing Bloggers
Want to know why Microsoft has so many people saying good things about it, despite endless security problems, high prices, product lock-in and a big brother attitude toward using their products? Microsoft bribes people. Microsoft blogger Long Zheng tells us that he, and many other bloggers, from the “A list to Z list” received an…
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Security in 2007: Zero-Day World Puts Bull’s-Eye on Vista
Who will find the first major security flaw in Windows Vista? Will it be released as zero-day? Is there an end in sight to the botnet menace? Is spam close to being canned? Just who are these criminals phishing for your credit card data? Those are just a handful of the hot-button topics that will…
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Who Are You Surfin? New Ways to Be Cert’in
It seems like every time people get together to do something about a security problem, other people get together to whine about it. Now they’re whining about EV (Extended Validation) SSL Certificates: EV certs are a scheme by Microsoft to screw other browser vendors. They’re an attempt by certificate authorities to gouge Web site operators.…
