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Merger Mania and the Reseller
When my editors asked me last week to write my column about the sale of the IBM PC Division to Lenovo, I delayed for a couple of days. There were two reasons. The first is that I didn’t want to provide an instant analysis to something that required more thought. The second was that there…
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New IE Exploit Spoofs Web Sites
Security researchers have uncovered a spoofing flaw in Internet Explorer that could turn out to be the perfect holiday gift for scammers. The bug, which has been confirmed on a fully patched Windows XP system with IE 6.0 and Service Pack 2, could allow a scammer to display a fake Web site with all the…
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‘Critical’ XP SP2 Update Fixes Windows Firewall Bug
Microsoft Corp. has quietly released a “critical” Windows XP Service Pack 2 update to fix a serious flaw in the Windows Firewall utility. “After you set up Microsoft Windows Firewall in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), you may discover that your computer can be accessed by anyone on the Internet when you use…
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Microsoft Seeks to Lure PeopleSoft Users
Microsoft Corp. didn’t waste any time in trying to win over ERP customers who might be unhappy with Oracle Corp.’s recent purchase of PeopleSoft Inc. On the heels of the announcement of the Oracle-PeopleSoft merger, Microsoft attempted to swoop in. On Dec. 15, the head of Microsoft’s sales and marketing for North America, Corporate Vice…
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IBM Unleashes New RFID Middleware
In the increasingly competitive RFID arena, IBM on Thursday will release the first three products from its recently formed $250 million S&A (Sensor & Actuator) arm. The new IBM WebSphere RFID Device Infrastructure and IBM WebSphere RFID Premises Server are specifically geared to RFID. The third new middleware product, IBM WebSphere Remote Server, supports emerging…
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HP to Invest $3 Billion in Itanium-Powered Servers
Hewlett-Packard Co. is planning to spend $3 billion over the next three years to grow the server product line that runs on Intel Corp.’s 64-bit Itanium 2 processors. Officials with HP, of Palo Alto, Calif., are announcing Thursday that the money will be spent to expand the number of applications that can run on the…
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