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Mac OS X Developers Watch Month of Apple Bugs
Developers of applications for Apple’s Mac OS X have been watching the Month of Apple Bugs project closely, and are generally in favor of the project’s goal of uncovering OS flaws. But they, and security companies, have questions about the MOAB group’s method, which involves making their findings public immediately, instead of first alerting Apple…
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Week in Review: Cisco, More Storage, Passings
Good: What’s good for Cisco is good for Cisco. Cisco’s $830 million of the spam and e-mail filtering company was a much needed move for Cisco’s plans to evolve into a true platform company. Spam and e-mail abuse has moved from being rare, to being a pain to now being capable of bringing a company’s…
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IronPort Buyout May Open New Doors for Cisco
While some industry watchers were surprised by the $830 million price tag that Cisco Systems agreed to pay for messaging security specialists IronPort, most analysts agree that the deal opens a range of new opportunities for the networking giant. In addition to improving the technological underpinnings necessary to deliver the “self-defending network,” experts said that…
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On-Demand CRM Vendor RightNow Stumbles in Q4
On-demand customer relationship management vendor RightNow Technologies stumbled badly in its fourth quarter. The company issued a warning late in the afternoon of Jan. 4 that its fourth-quarter 2006 revenues would see a shortfall, as will its earnings. Company officials said fourth-quarter revenues, which will be reported Jan. 31, will come in at about $28…
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Alliance: A Professional Code of Ethics Will Distinguish MSPs from the Crowd
Looking to enhance the image of its membership in the eyes of end users, the MSPAlliance, a professional organization of managed service providers, has created a code of ethics. The move is intended to provide a benchmark for the emerging area of managed services and to also give the organization’s members an advantage over anyone…
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AT&T-BellSouth Merger May Be Good for Business
Within minutes of final FCC approval of the merger between telecom giants AT&T and BellSouth, the wheels of change began turning to create a 22-state communications company that takes a big step in reassembling the old Ma Bell of decades past. The huge telecom monopoly broken up by federal edict years ago was again starting…
