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Dell Rolls Out New Models, Upgrade Program
Dell rolled out several new notebooks, mobile workstations and services for business users on Tuesday. Dell Inc.’s new Latitude notebooks and Precision mobile workstations are built on Intel Corp.’s Sonoma architecture, which is the latest version of Intel’s Centrino chip set, featuring a 533MHz front-side bus as well as a PCI Express bus architecture. Unlike…
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Google Targets Internet Domains
Google Inc. is continuing to expand its Internet aspiration, this time by adding the title “domain-name registrar” to its list of roles. Google on Friday officially became a registrar after completing a contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the nonprofit body that oversees the Domain Name System, ICANN officials confirmed. ICANN’s…
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Business Process Outsourcing Grows Up
Things tend to mature rather rapidly in the IT sector, but business process outsourcing hasn’t been one of them. Business process outsourcing, or BPO, has been around since the mid-1990s. In a BPO engagement, an organization offloads responsibility for an IT-intensive business task to an external vendor. “Non-core” business functions such as payroll are considered…
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Microsoft to Rename XP Reduced Media Edition
Microsoft Corp. said it will come up with a new name for the unbundled version of Windows XP in time for the software’s retail delivery by the end of February, following criticism from the European Commission. The name “Windows XP Reduced Media Edition,” which the EC said would prejudice consumers against the software, was only…
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New Virus Attack Technique Bypasses Filters
Virus writers have once again gotten the drop on anti-virus vendors and IT administrators with a new technique that’s finding early and considerable success. Late last month, administrators and service providers began seeing virus-infected messages with a new type of attachment hitting their mail servers: an .rar archive. .Rar files are similar to .zip files…
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Wi-Fi Alliance to Promote WLAN Security
The Wi-Fi Alliance will use its pull in the industry to improve security measures in wireless LAN hardware over the next year. The Austin, Texas, trade organization, which confers the right to use the Wi-Fi label on hardware, plans to increase encryption requirements for certification. But members of the security task groups within the alliance…
