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Study: Microsoft Anti-Phishing Uses Best Bait
Microsoft’s maiden entry into the anti-phishing space outperforms similar technologies offered by more established security applications providers, according to a new report commissioned by the software company and conducted by researchers 3Sharp. Based on a comparative study sponsored by Microsoft that tested anti-phishing applications from eight different software vendors and online specialists, the malicious Web…
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Distribution Growth Is Good for the Channel
While spending by small and midsize companies slowed in the third quarter, the business of IT product distributors increased by more than 6 percent. Spending growth by SMBs dropped to 2 percent from 7 percent in the third quarter of last year, according to a recent report by Raymond James and Associates, an investment and…
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Microsoft Enlists Intel in Quest to Sanction Open XML Supply Chain Standards
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Microsoft announced Sept. 28 that Intel has joined it in an initiative to get its proposed Office Open XML format standard approved by an international standards body. The Office Open XML format standard for documents—a more than 4,000-page, 6.7MB Microsoft Word document—is less of a standard and more of a detailed description of…
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Is ROI a ‘Bogus’ Indicator of IT Value?
PHOENIX—The focus on return on investment as an indicator of IT value is actually bogus and is increasingly not being seen as the best way to measure technology decisions, Stephen Walli, a former employee of Microsoft and Optaros, said at the Gartner Open Source Summit here September 28. In an address entitled “Enterprise Open Source:…
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Adtran Launches SMB Router Series
Long-hailed as a provider of low-cost networking equipment, Adtran has extended its NetVanta router line with two additions aimed at delivering high-performance throughput for bandwidth-intensive applications for small to midsize businesses and branch offices. “Today, we are seeing branch offices that need more bandwidth,” said Larry Potthoff, president and CEO at Enterprise Networks Solutions, a…
