Recent Articles
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SAP’s Breakout: Vendor Steps Up Efforts to Capture Market Share
When he looks at the competition for market share in the enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management space, SAP executive Rodney Seligmann recalls the Battle of Verdun. The battle was a nine-month saga in 1916 during which 1 million French and German soldiers lost their lives for less than 100 meters of French countryside…
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Free Removal Tools Released as ‘Blackworm’ Approaches
With the clock ticking on a Feb. 3 D-Day for the activation of the destructive ‘Blackworm’ worm payload, anti-virus vendors are rushing to release free removal tools to help contain the damage. The worm, also known as Kama Sutra, MyWife.E or Nyxem.E, uses the lure of sexually explicit photographs to trick e-mail users into executing…
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Of Couch Potatoes and Network Administrators
I’d had it. Having to remember which of four remote control units I should press when using my home theater system or TV had, simply put, gotten out of control. It was time to take action, so I motored to the nearest Brookstone and got me a nifty universal remote that not only controls the…
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Security Conflict: Auditing the On-Demand Realm
Marc Maiffret is a worried man. The chief hacking officer and co-founder of eEye Digital Security looks at the rising popularity of hosted Web applications and sees a future where legitimate bug hunters are blocked from auditing popular product for security flaws. “How can you do an independent code audit when you have no access…
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Vista: Anti-Spyware, Yes. Anti-Virus, No
Microsoft officials have been saying for quite some time that Windows Vista will ship with anti-spyware software built into the operating system. But for more than a year, Microsoft’s top dogs have been quite clear that Microsoft has no intentions to bundle anti-virus software into the product. Despite this seemingly straightforward (at least in our…
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Novell Targets SMB Market with Partnerships
Novell announced Jan. 30 that it will start bundling support and training offerings with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for small and medium-sized businesses via its channel partners. This news came only days after Novell announced that, as of March 1, the Linux company will no longer force users into CLAs (contract license agreements), which attached…
