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Security Vendors Reject Microsoft’s Call for Innovation
Microsoft contends that its partners should embrace the security features being added to its Vista operating system instead of complaining about them, but software makers including Symantec and McAfee said that the company’s mandate for new product innovation only benefits its own interests. At the crux of the dispute is Microsoft’s contention that controversial security…
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Samsung Makes a Play in the Commercial Channel
Samsung has always been known for its high-tech, high-end offerings for the consumer market. That is about to change. The Irvine, Calif., vendor has begun paying closer attention to the commercial channel. At the IT ChannelVision conference in Phoenix, Samsung staked out a prime spot of the showroom floor to show off its latest wares,…
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Force10 Extends Switch Line to Wiring Closets
Force10 Networks on Oct. 9 will make its move out of the data center and into the wiring closet when it introduces its first LAN switches for enterprise networks. The San Jose, Calif., company, a mainstay in many high performance computing and large data center environments, will introduce its new S50V and S25 wiring closet…
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5 Most Important Technologies: Yesterday and Tomorrow
As part of its 5 Year Anniversary special report, Baseline magazine asked two longtime information-technology market watchers—David F. Carr, Baseline‘s technology editor, and Michael Vizard, editorial director of the Ziff Davis Enterprise Group—to, respectively, tell us what five technologies had the biggest impact on business over the past five years and what five technologies might…
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Lithium-Ion Batteries to Survive Notebooks’ Flames
Despite the recent recalls of millions of notebook battery packs, lithium-ion battery technology appears to be here to stay when it comes to powering portable PCs, experts say. Following similar actions by Apple Computer, Dell, Lenovo Group, Toshiba and others— companies that have recalled more than 7.5 million notebook battery packs since Dell’s Aug. 14…
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Vista Enters Home Stretch with RC2 Release
The long and oft-delayed journey toward the release of Windows Vista entered the home stretch Oct. 6 when Microsoft released what is likely the final test build, Release Candidate 2. “Microsoft expects the RC2 build to be the last interim release before the product is released to manufacturing. As we stated from the beginning of…
