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‘Evil Twin’ Haunts Wi-Fi Users
An IT security expert, an academic and the U.K. government’s cybercrime unit will give Londoners an introduction to the security dangers of wireless networking on Thursday—with the star of the show being an attack method dubbed the “Evil Twin.” The Evil Twin is essentially a wireless version of a phishing scam—users think they’re connecting to…
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EDS, Towers Perrin Spin Off HR Outsourcing Firm
Moving to address the growing human resources outsourcing market, Electronic Data Systems Corp. is teaming with HR consultancy Towers Perrin on a joint venture. In addition, Towers Perrin signed a 10-year, $365 million deal with EDS to outsource its global network, desktop and hosting environment. EDS will also develop and manage some applications for Towers…
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Microsoft’s Exchange Roadmap Takes Another Turn
Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced an update to the product roadmap for its Exchange messaging server that rolls Exchange Edge Services—once intended as a separate release—into future Exchange versions and commits the company to evolving Exchange into a unified messaging platform. In addition, the company for now is abandoning the adoption of SQL Server as…
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Analysts: Project Fusion Is the Death Knell for PeopleSoft Apps
During Oracle Corp.’s heartfelt and lengthy launch of the combined Oracle-PeopleSoft Inc. company on Tuesday, CEO Larry Ellison posed the upcoming Project Fusion as the product suite that will melt all the goodness from all the combined suites into one Internet standards-based Java platform that should make SAP AG shake in its collective pants. “We…
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Microsoft Persists in Backing MVP Program
At the end of last year, rumors were flying that Microsoft was rethinking its commitment to its MVP (Most Valuable Professional) program. But on Wednesday, Microsoft ended that speculation by naming a pool of independent technology experts as MVPs and announcing plans for a 2005 summit for them. MVPs are experts with knowledge about one…
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PostgreSQL Group Releases Windows Version of Open-Source Database
The PostgreSQL Global Development group on Wednesday released a version of the open-source database PostgreSQL that features better scalability and performance, more features and, most importantly, that supports Windows. Besides a community of open-source developers, more than a dozen companies chipped in on development for Version 8.0, including Red Hat Inc., Fujitsu, Afilias Ltd., Software…
