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Avnet Considering Network Business Unit
Distributor Avnet may build or buy a network distribution business in fiscal year 2007, which begins July 1, hoping to build a $50 million to $100 million business unit, executives told Channel Insider. The solutions distributor is incubating a group of network VARs and exploring its options to enter the field, said Fred Cuen, president…
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The E-Commerce Future, Google Style
Like every major sales and communications advance that preceded it, e-commerce’s 12-year existence has moved along in phases, as it slowly abandoned earlier methods to accept the new reality. Offline and online brands were initially kept distinct, then they were awkwardly merged. Initial e-commerce efforts were flashy brochure sites, with rudimentary shopping carts and checkout…
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Microsoft Confirms ‘Highly Critical’ IE Hole
Microsoft plans to release a pre-patch advisory with workarounds for a “highly critical” vulnerability that could put millions of Internet Explorer users at the mercy of malicious hackers. The advisory, which will be posted here, acknowledges a code execution hole that was discovered and publicly reported by Secunia Research of Copenhagen, Denmark. Secunia said in…
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Apple Gets Security Lecture from Microsoft
Apple is getting a lecture on its security response process from the unlikeliest of places. In a classic flipping of the script, a Microsoft program manager who regularly serves as the public face of the software maker’s security response process rapped Apple for the way it handles security guidance to customers. In a series of…
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CA Opens Partner Access to SMB Protection Suite
Computer Associates is allowing SMB resellers to source its small and midsize business protection suites from distributors, a shift from a policy of making partners get the products from direct-selling online sellers. CA plans to announce March 23 in a Webcast to partners that resellers can own the sale directly and deliver the suites from…
