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Be Afraid: Congress Takes Up Net Neutrality
U.S. Congress involvement in anything these days should give everyone at least a slight tremor. “Unintended” consequences seem to have a way of rearing their ugly heads in the aftermath of congressional action. Remember campaign finance reform and how well that worked? What about the Telecommunications Act of 1996? Instead of the competition that was…
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What Will Apple Do When the Malware Comes?
The release in the last few days of malware for the Mac and Linux underscore some old issues about how it is possible to have malware on those platforms. I have some new thoughts though. I’ve begun to wonder what Apple would do if a real problem developed. To be very clear, a real problem…
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Tangent Suit Claims Microsoft Soaked Partners
Updated: Microsoft looks forward to defending itself against Tangent’s federal complaint, stating, “No court has ever found that Microsoft charged too much for its products.” Microsoft has been hit with yet another antitrust claim, this time from a partner that alleges that the software vendor abused its market dominance to extract exorbitant fees from OEMs,…
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HP Revamps StorageWorks Portfolio
Hewlett-Packard is sprucing up its storage hardware and software portfolio to simplify IT consolidation efforts across customers’ online, backup and remote/branch office storage environments. Set to be unveiled on Feb. 20 during its HP Asia-Pacific StorageWorks Conference in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, HP will announce new plug-in and connectivity features to its EVA (Enterprise Virtual Array)…
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Ingram to Sell Hitachi Data Systems’ SME Storage Line
Hitachi Data Systems will propel its six new storage SKUs to the SME (small and midsized enterprise) through distributor Ingram Micro’s reseller network, both organizations said. Both Hitachi and Ingram are expected to announce an agreement on Feb. 21 to distribute six configurations of Hitachi’s SATA-based TagmaStore AMS200 (Adaptable Modular Storage) and WMS100 (Workgroup Modular…
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Microsoft Plans Six Core Windows Vista Versions
After months of maintaining that it had not yet finalized its Windows Vista lineup, Microsoft seems finally to have decided upon a half dozen core Vista versions. According to a posting on its Web site, Microsoft is readying six core Vista packages, or SKUs, plus two additional releases customized for the European Union that won’t…
