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Ingram Micro Teams with Level Platforms for Seismic Shift
Ingram Micro is looking to shake things up through a new partnership the distributor signed with vendor Level Platforms to deliver managed services to small and midsize businesses. The distributor, based in Santa Ana, Calif., is using the partnership to launch the Ingram Micro Seismic Platform and Virtual Services Warehouse, a program through which the…
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End-users: Zero Tolerance for Microsoft Office
I read with interest Peter Coffee’s article “Zero Tolerance for Microsoft Office,” as we are midway through a transition away from that suite [Sept. 11]. However, as this is a transition not to another suite but to a [file] format, I was concerned about Coffee’s comment, “Open XML-based formats are years away from giving enterprise…
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Study: Few Physicians Use IT at Work
The low adoption of electronic medical records and e-prescribing is well known. Now, a new study has worse news: most physicians do not use inexpensive, widely accessible IT tools in their practice. The study, to be published in November in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, finds that fewer than 4 percent of physicians e-mail…
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Oracle Intros Spring 2.0 Integration
Oracle has announced enhanced support for the Spring Framework in the way of integration with the new Spring 2.0 release. Oracle, based in Redwood Shores, Calif., announced on Oct. 3 that it has provided integration of TopLink Essentials, the open-source EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) 3.0 Java Persistence API (JPA) reference implementation, with the latest Spring Framework…
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McAfee Snaps Up Another Compliance Specialist
McAfee announced on Oct. 3 that it has signed an agreement to acquire Citadel Security Software, which specializes in applications used to mitigate risks posed by software vulnerabilities and monitor IT systems for policy compliance. Under the terms of the deal, McAfee will pay $56 million in cash for Citadel, which is based in Dallas,…
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Firefox Zero-Day Code Execution Hoax?
A public claim by hackers that Mozilla’s Firefox browser is vulnerable to multiple code execution vulnerabilities may be an overblown hoax. On the heels of a ToorCon presentation where two security researchers—Mischa Spiegelmock and Andrew Wbeelsoi—warned that Firefox’s implementation of JavaScript was badly flawed and could allow PC takeover attacks, Mozilla’s engineers say the risk…
