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ClearCube Drops Cost of PC Blades
One of the knocks against the idea of bladed PCs has been the high costs. ClearCube Technology may finally have that solved. The Austin, Texas, company on Oct. 2 is unveiling a new offering, the A Series PC blades, which drops the entry point for businesses in half. “We’ve finally been able to break that…
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Juniper Expands Security Gateway Lineup
Juniper Networks introduced three new security appliances on Oct. 2, adding unified threat management tools to its existing hardware in an effort to market the gateway devices to branch offices and other remote enterprise operations. The three new products, added to Juniper’s SSG (Secure Services Gateway) appliance lineup, specifically promise to offer more comprehensive filtering…
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Needed: SpinachTracker 1.0
Last week was noteworthy for new products and new technologies. The DemoFall conference lived up to its name by providing a stage for products ranging from mobile music devices to social network sites, and the MIT Emerging Technologies Conference introduced new technologies from the nanotech world to new computer security concepts. eWEEK covered both events,…
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Intel Launches Quad-Core Assault
Intel plans to essentially offer two cores for free when it begins rolling out quad-core Xeon 5300 server processors in November. By offering quad-core chips, which contain four processor cores each, for roughly the same price as two-core versions, Intel expects its latest semiconductors will rapidly proliferate in the server space, company executives said here…
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Apple Releases Security Update for Mac OS X
Apple Computer on Sept. 29 issued a security update that promises to fix several critical flaws in Mac OS X. In issuing the 2006-006 security update, the Cupertino, Calif., company patched and updated 12 flaws in Mac OS X Version 10.4.8. Several of the security flaws were serious enough to open the possibility for arbitrary…
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The Limits of Scanning
Has the malware problem gotten out of control? An aggressive test of anti-virus products indicates that it has, at least by some measures. It’s a tough call. I worry less and less personally about malware, even though I’m barraged by it day and night. I’ve got a gateway security device that scans for it with…
