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Study: MSPs Are Taking Legal Risks
Managed services providers operating under tight customer and partner contracts not only protect themselves legally but also raise the value of their companies. But according to a recent study by the MSP Alliance, some of the companies providing managed services to users don’t take legal protection seriously enough. In some cases, companies forgo legal counsel…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
