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Let the Browser Wars Begin—Again
Firefox 2.0 is almost here, and Microsoft is expected to start pushing out Internet Explorer 7 to users via the Windows Automatic Update software-distribution mechanism by year’s end. In short, the browser wars are about to begin again. Depending on whose numbers you believe, Firefox has been continuing to erode IE’s lead. According to Janco…
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Is the Botnet Battle Already Lost?
It’s dress-down Friday at Sunbelt Software’s Clearwater, Fla., headquarters. In a bland cubicle on the 12th floor, Eric Sites stares at the screen of a “dirty box,” a Microsoft Windows machine infected with the self-replicating Wootbot network worm. Within seconds, there is a significant spike in CPU usage as the infected computer starts scanning the…
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Axiom System Extends to Entry-Level, Enterprise Markets
Network storage systems provider Pillar Data Systems is expanding beyond its midmarket roots with systems that target both small businesses and larger enterprises. New enhancements and configurations options in its Axiom Storage line will give entry-level customers a full data services suite and larger customers a more high-availability infrastructure. At the small-to-medium end of the…
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Cisco Channel Goes Vertical
Cisco Systems on Oct. 16 took the wraps off Vertical Select, which gives VARs a crash course in marketing and sales tactics to tackle vertical markets. Vertical Select, which also includes tools to help VARs in their efforts, is essentially a booster program for partners who are interested but not yet involved in vertical market…
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Cisco Lets VARs Approve Leasing Options for Customers
Cisco Systems Capital, the financial subsidiary of Cisco Systems, announced Oct.16 that it would begin allowing VARs to approve up to $50,000 in leasing credit for their customers. The new leasing program is aimed at SMBs (small and midsize businesses) and gives cash-conscious companies the opportunity buy Cisco products with fewer upfront costs, said Maryann…
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Survey: Hacker Attacks Scariest Threat of All
In a survey of IT security professionals attending the RSA Conference, one-third of respondents cited uncovering identity management as their biggest organizational concern. While 29 percent of respondents ranked e-mail viruses as their most significant threat, 68 percent listed Web viruses, suggesting that Web viruses pose more of a threat than e-mail-born ones. Paul Davis,…
