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SBC Plans Set-Top Box with Web Links
SBC Communications Inc. is merging home entertainment and digital content through the television set-top box. The San Antonio, Texas-based telecommunications provider on Monday announced a joint venture with equipment maker 2Wire Inc. to deliver a new home entertainment service and set-top box by the middle of the year. It will be available to customers using…
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Vertical Route Works for IBM
IBM continues to push its vertical middleware strategy with new solutions for specific industries—and is winning deals that competitors can only envy. Customers can expect more this month, as IBM is expected to deliver a new health care solution using WebSphere Business Integration software as the core of the company’s Health Care Collaborative Network Solution.…
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Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish
I’m a big believer in, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” So it is that I have a 100-Mhz Pentium server still working in my office. I’ll bet you a lot of your customers are the same way. I know integrators who are still supporting users running dBase, FoxPro and Clipper applications running on—brace…
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Microsoft’s Top 10 Milestones for 2005
Some folks seem to think Microsoft was humbled by its legal and technology challenges in 2004. But I disagree. I don’t see a kinder or gentler Microsoft emerging in 2005. More transparent, maybe. Down for the count? Heck, no! After watching the Softies for two decades, I can tell you they are hardly ready to…
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Symantec Patches ‘High Risk’ Flaws
Network security vendor Symantec Corp. has rolled out fixes for three high-risk security holes in its Nexland Firewall appliances. The flaws could put users at risk of security bypass, manipulation of data and denial-of-service attacks, according to an advisory from research outfit Secunia, which rates the vulnerabilities as “highly critical.” Symantec confirmed that the vulnerabilities…
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One-Stop Returning
You’re cleaning away papers that accumulated during the holidays and find a portable CD player that is identical to the one you use every day. It was given to you as a gift and you have no receipt, nor any clue where it was purchased. On a whim, you take the CD player to your…
