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More Sony Batteries Are Recalled
There seems to be no end to Sony’s battery woes. A day after Lenovo Group’s Sept. 28 notebook battery pack recall announcement—it will recall more than 500,000 Sony-cell-based battery packs used in its ThinkPad notebooks—Dell and Toshiba each said on Sept. 29 that they will also recall Sony-made batteries. On Sept. 29, Toshiba announced that…
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Inside the Third-Party Patching Conundrum
The emergence of a high-profile group of security professionals promising third-party software fixes during zero-day attacks has rekindled a debate on the merits—and risks—associated with deploying unsupported product updates. The Zero Day Emergency Response Team, or ZERT, stepped out of stealth mode on Sept. 22 with a stopgap patch for a VML (Vector Markup Language)…
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EMC Hones Application Dependency Mapping
EMC’s Smarts unit on Oct. 2 will bring greater insight into the impact of infrastructure problems on applications and services when it introduces the next major release of its EMC Smarts Application Discovery Manager software. The new release begins to integrate with its Smarts root-cause analysis software the application dependency discovery and mapping technology EMC…
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3Com Targets SMBs with Integrated Switch
3Com on October 2 will claim a first in introducing a single Layer 2 switch that combines Gigabit Ethernet switching, Power over Ethernet on every port and an integrated wireless controller designed and priced specifically for small and midsize businesses. The new 3Com Unified Gigabit Wireless PoE Switch 24 supports converged wired and wireless networking…
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1,000 D&H VARs Engaging and Selling Cisco
Just over a year since it began distributing Cisco Systems products, small-business distributor D&H has managed to move 1,000 of its VARs to engage and sell the vendor’s wares. The engagement is a sign that the Harrisburg, Pa., distributor and its VARs, as well as small and midsize business solution providers in general, are moving…
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Pedals to the Metal: 50 Fastest-Growing Companies
Get big fast: That was a mantra of late—and not-always-so-great—1990s Web mania. Growing quickly then meant hiring lots of people and burning through scads of cash without a clear idea of how sales would materialize. These days, fast-growing companies need to demonstrate real revenue, from real customers, or they’ll get yanked short by investors like…
