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Microsoft Turns On OneCare; McAfee Follows Suit
Microsoft launched its consumer desktop security service as expected May 30, with longtime anti-virus and intrusion detection specialist McAfee introducing a rival offering in hopes of blocking the software giant’s bid to help lock down home PCs. Dubbed officially as Windows Live OneCare, the Microsoft managed security service aims to help users strike back at…
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No Method, Just Mobile Madness
For all the hype surrounding mobile computing and the general acceptance of wireless networks, this whole area still has lots of unfulfilled potential in corporate environments. In fact, a recent survey of 143 IT executives by Baseline magazine, a sister publication of eWEEK Channel Insider, found that while the average business only expects to increase…
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Vista/SUSE Smackdown
In one corner, we have the champ—Windows. Come January, it will come out swinging with what Microsoft tells us is the latest and greatest version ever—Vista. In the other corner, we have the challenger—OpenSUSE 10.1, the latest shipping version of Novell/SUSE’s community Linux. Sometime this summer, its commercial version, SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, will come…
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N-able Reporting Reminds MSP Clients What They’ve Bought
N-able Technologies’ new N-Compass reporting tool delivers customizable reports, so managed service providers can demonstrate why they no longer feel the pain of downtime or service calls. The reporting tool and similar means from N-able’s competitors are crucial to MSPs trying to remind clients who no longer see their VAR’s engineers tinkering in the server…
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What Retailers Don’t Tell Consumers
Theory: The Web is the great equalizer and, given the opportunity to access comprehensive, accurate and unbiased information about products they want to buy, consumers will choose to buy the products that are best for them, given price, features and various other details. But is that really the case? It’s clear that the larger retailers…
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Solution Provider Helps Marines Prepare for Overseas Missions
They train for weeks, learning combat and disarmament skills, educating themselves in psychological and physical warfare—as well as foreign languages and cultures. In fact, while they are the few and the proud, even the Marines can need help when it comes to assimilating and operating in a foreign land, dealing with different languages and ways…
