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AMD Live! PC Launch Backed By Free Media Apps
AMD’s partners are expected to announce the first PCs based on the AMD Live! entertainment platform on Tuesday, the day that AMD will begin to make available a number of specialized, free applications to improve the multimedia experience on Live! PCs. Initially, Live! PCs will be not much more than existing computers designed around the…
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Ubuntu Tips Upgrade, Server Release Plans
UK-based Canonical will introduce all-new versions of its popular Debian-based Linuxes—Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Edubuntu—along with its first enterprise server edition on June 1, a company spokesperson told DesktopLinux.com. The full release of Ubuntu 6.06—code-named Dapper Drake and featuring the latest GNOME desktop—includes both installable live desktop CDs and text-mode install CDs for three architectures. Canonical…
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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…
