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  • Microsoft Preps 11 Security Patches, Some Critical

    Microsoft reported on Oct. 5 that it will release a total of 10 updates for its Windows operating system and Office productivity suite as part of its monthly security bulletin for October. Due out on Oct. 10 are six security updates meant to patch issues identified in Windows, with an additional four updates aimed at…

  • Bell Micro Partners with SilverBack for Managed Services

    The marriage of managed services and distribution is solidifying, as SilverBack Technologies completes a partnership agreement with distributor Bell Microproducts. SilverBack, based in Billerica, Mass., is extending its managed services platform to VARs selling to midsize companies through the distributor. Bell Microproducts will use the SilverBack technology to anchor a program that taps the distributor’s…

  • Securing E-Mail the Appliance Way

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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…

  • 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…

  • 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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