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Intel’s Pentium Reaches 64-Bit Heights
Intel Corp. is getting ready to expand its 64-bit chip capabilities into new areas: the enterprise desktop and high-end Xeon-based servers. During a press briefing Tuesday, officials with the Santa Clara, Calif., company said Intel later this month will roll out the 600 Series of desktop Pentium 4 processors that will offer the EM64T technology,…
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Channel Reacts to Fiorina Resignation
Channel executives say that they are taking in stride Carly Fiorina’s abrupt resignation from Hewlett-Packard Co. Wednesday’s announcement adds still another twist to HP’s channel story, which has shown some unpredictability in recent months. Still, partners predicted their HP business will continue to flow. “We’re looking past the noise and are eager to [identify] the…
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Bye-Bye, Carly
Cries of glee are echoing through some reseller circles as the news spreads that Carly Fiorina, Hewlett-Packard‘s chairwoman and CEO, has been given her walking papers by the HP board. Most resellers I’ve spoken to this morning have given me the same stories over and over again. First, while HP’s acrimonious purchase of Compaq is…
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Symantec Patches High-Risk Vulnerability
Network security specialist Symantec Corp. has confirmed a high-risk vulnerability in multiple anti-virus and anti-spam products and warned that a successful exploit could lead to code execution attacks. The vulnerability, which was reported by Internet Security Systems Inc.’s X-Force unit, is described as a boundary error in the DEC2EXE parsing engine used in versions of…
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Microsoft Offers Customers $20,000 in Partner Services
In rough conjunction with public statements about a future of better integration for its Office suite, Microsoft Corp. is quietly promoting a sweet-sounding deal around the current Office product. Although many partners say they haven’t even heard about the program yet, Microsoft is offering as much as $20,000 in partner service subsidies to “qualified” users…
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Microsoft Overloads the Patch Process
I’m done patching my own systems. I threw caution somewhat to the winds this time. I did do some testing; I have a test desktop and a test server I install these things on and run a few tests involving common tasks of mine, but this time was different from most others. This time Microsoft…
