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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…
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Tivoli Gains Steam With Candle Acquisition
IBM’s Tivoli brand has quietly built momentum in managing storage, security, distributed systems and mainframes, aided by last summer’s acquisition of Candle Corp. The move has resulted in a 25 percent revenue increase for Tivoli in IBM’s fourth fiscal quarter. eWEEK Senior Editor Paula Musich spoke recently with Tivoli General Manager Al Zollar about what’s…
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HP Adds Cisco Switch to Blades
Hewlett-Packard Co. is integrating a Gigabit Ethernet switch from Cisco Systems Inc. into its blade server architecture, a move company officials said will reduce the costs of running the blades and make it easier for users to blend them into their Cisco infrastructure. The two companies co-developed the Cisco Gigabit Ethernet Switch Module, which will…
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The Triumph and Tragedy of Ray Noorda
Over my years as a computer journalist, I’ve met pretty much everyone who’s anyone in the technology business. Very few of the big names have really impressed me, though. Among those who I’ve thought were really something special have been Steve Jobs of Apple, Linus Torvalds of Linux and, oh yes, Ray Noorda of Novell.…
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Attackers Could Bypass XP SP2 Security Mechanisms
Microsoft Corp. on Monday confirmed it was investigating a claim by a Russian security researcher that two key security technologies built into Windows XP Service Pack 2 could be easily defeated. The weaknesses were highlighted in a research paper published by Alexander Anisimov of Positive Technologies and centers around XP SP2’s heap protection and DEP…
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Microsoft Won’t Bundle MSN Desktop Search with Windows
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Microsoft Corp. has no immediate plans to integrate the MSN desktop search application into its operating system, a company executive said at a conference here this weekend. Speaking on a panel on search technology at the Harvard Business School’s Cyberposium, Mark Kroese, general manager of information services and merchant platform product marketing for MSN,…
