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Palm Touts Treo 680 Without Price
Want to buy one of those new Treo 680s? Figure on spending $199. Maybe a little more, but I doubt it. In one of the stranger press conference events of late, Palm President Ed Colligan at the Treo 680 introduction at the DigitalLife show (full disclosure: a show put on by our parent company, Ziff…
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What if Microsoft Held a Vista Party and Nobody Came?
The countdown for the release of Windows Vista keeps ticking, and the expectations—from outward appearances—seem to be growing. The signs are that Microsoft and Vista very early adopters expect some kind of community groundswell to take place around the launch and maybe even before. But based on reader reaction, the event planners should be able…
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IT Hiring Levels Off
IT hiring was level in September, the first month without growth in more than a year, according a report released by the National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses, an Alexandria, Va.-based trade association that represents IT staffing and solutions firms, on Oct. 11. “With employment of IT professionals within some key non-IT sectors slowing, overall…
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Microsoft, Intel Host 23-City Vista Prep Road Show
Microsoft and Intel are hitting the road to jointly promote Microsoft’s Windows Vista and Office 2007 and Intel’s Core 2 Duo processor to system builders. The vendors on Oct. 12 announced Ready2Rock, a 23-city series of daylong, hands-on events designed to prepare the system builder channel for the new capabilities and opportunities presented by Microsoft’s…
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Oracle Security Alerts Get Overdue Makeover
Oracle plans to make a significant change to the way product flaws are described in its security bulletins, an admission of sorts that the quarterly alerts were almost impossible to understand. Beginning with the Oct. 17 release of the scheduled CPU (Critical Patch Update), the Redwood Shores, Calif., database vendor will start adding severity scores…
