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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.…
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Vista Reignites Visions of Past Releases
One of the most overused adages in the IT industry is, “Change is the only constant.” That is true in most contexts, but at Microsoft the more applicable cliché is, “The more things change, the more they remain the same.” I couldn’t arrest an involuntary smirk when I started reading over the past few days…
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The Well-Tempered Debian Desktop
I recently reported on my good results with migrating an old server from RH7 to Debian Sarge, beginning with the network-install CD. Responding to my comments that an install of a Sarge desktop on my old Thinkpad left me less than impressed, several readers admonished me for not installing Etch. I’ve now done an Etch…
