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  • Send the Marines to Language Lab

    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…

  • Microsoft Launches ‘Pay as You Go’ PC Trials

    Cut-rate PC/hardware Windows XP Starter Edition bundles aren’t Microsoft’s only solution for bringing computing to the masses. Microsoft unveiled a new financing program designed to make PCs more affordable to emerging-market customers on May 22, the day before the kick-off of its annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Seattle. The new pay-as-you-go program and…

  • VA: Veterans’ Personal Data Swiped

    The Department of Veterans Affairs said the personal information of up to 26.5 million veterans was swiped from an employee’s home. According to the VA, an employee took home electronic data containing the names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth for millions of veterans and some spouses, as well as some disability ratings. The…

  • Trend Micro’s E-Mail Solution Keeps Channel in Mind

    Network security vendor Trend Micro’s latest solution, e-mail security for SMBs, is hosted and offers managed options, partly to create touch points and opportunities for partners as the vendor marches toward a 100 percent channel strategy. Trend Micro Email Security Services provides content filtering, anti-spam, anti-virus, threat blocking and policy management as a hosted application.…

  • Dell to Launch AMD Server

    Dell will use Advanced Micro Devices’ Opteron chip. The Austin, Texas, PC maker has long been an Intel shop. But it intends to change that later in 2006, when it will begin offering a multi-processor AMD Opteron server. Dell, which announced its first-quarter earnings May 18, said in a statement that it would begin offering…

  • A New Kind of Data Need for a New Kind of Retailer

    As retailers find dollars by having certain stores specialize in various ethnic or lifestyle segments, they are often neglecting to update their store data to match, so finds a new Forrester Research report. This is a matter of frustration among some consumer goods suppliers, who now need to know more about those customers. A product…

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