Recent Articles
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Security, Hypocrisy and the Kernel Patching Spat
It’s not easy being Microsoft. Not that you should feel sorry for the company, at least not usually. But it is often put in impossible positions, as McAfee and Symantec are doing now. The two companies are arguing, mostly in European papers in order to influence antitrust policy in the European Union, that security design…
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Startup Offers Gift Card Exchange
A new Web gift card exchange could shake up the gift card space, with cards selling to consumers for less than face value and retailers getting the gift that keeps on giving: previously unavailable data on who is using these cards. Trying to address the hundreds of millions of dollars lost each year in gift…
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Wyse Ships Wireless Thin Client
A new series of wireless thin clients is being shipped by Wyse bound for customers ranging from airports to health care facilities. The new V-Class clients integrate high-end thin clients that Wyse is already selling for wired networks with a built-in 802.11b and 802.11g wireless device. The new thin client can be integrated into a…
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IBM Donates Open-Source Technology for AJAX, Web 2.0 Development
IBM announced that it will make another round of technology contributions to the open-source community to promote the use of Web 2.0 technologies in the enterprise. At the AJAXWorld conference in Santa Clara, Calif., on Oct. 4, IBM officials said the systems giant will make additional contributions to the Eclipse Foundation’s ATF (AJAX Technology Framework)…
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IBM to Spend $100 Million on Mainframes
IBM will spend $100 million over the next five years to make the mainframe easier to use. The program will focus on such areas as greater automation, modernizing the user interface and easing the way users manage the software on the machines. It kicked off Oct. 4 with the release of the new z/OS V1.8…
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Microsoft Tools to Combat Vista Piracy
Microsoft will unveil Oct. 4 a new software protection platform and accompanying technologies that it plans to incorporate into a variety of products, starting with Windows Vista and Windows Server Longhorn, in hopes of combating piracy. The new technologies will be included in all of Vista versions, and over time every Microsoft product will use…
