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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…
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RFID Vendors Raise the Stakes with New Products
With the design and deployment work for the U.S. Department of Defense’s extensive RFID network completed in late September, industry experts expect a ripple effect across the supply chain industry, with more companies moving to add RFID dollars to their budgets. RFID vendors aren’t wasting any time coming out with new products to meet the…
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Survey: Microsoft IIS 6 Ahead of Apache
Port80 Software, a Microsoft partner, has released a new survey showing that the Microsoft Internet Information Services 6 Web server has overtaken the Apache open-source Web server among Fortune 1000 Web sites. In the survey released on Oct. 11, Port80 Software said IIS 6 more than doubled its market share over the last year, to…
