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Tools Let Wi-Fi LANs Branch Out
With wireless LANs firmly established in the headquarters of many large enterprises, WLAN management specialists are now addressing the needs of their customers’ branch offices with new tools that allow for remote administration. Bluesocket Inc. will announce this week a gateway and associated management software that let users control WLANs in multiple locations, according to…
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No XP SP2 Security Fixes for Win2K: Instead An SP2-Less ‘Rollup’
Microsoft’s decision to scrap plans for Windows 2000 Service Pack 5 has effectively killed all hopes that security enhancements built into Windows XP SP2 will be back-ported to Windows 2000. Following a spate of recent analyst reports warning of long-term security problems with the platform, some enterprise customers anticipated that Redmond would reconsider the Service…
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Go Configure: Web-Based Tools for Storage Are Showing Up
For resellers, Web-based server configurators are old hat. Storage configurators, however, mark a newer area of activity. Manufacturers and distributors are both rolling out these storage tools on the Web. Configurators are intended to help resellers sort through storage options, speed up the design phase and determine whether a solution will work in actual practice.…
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IBM’s PC Biz Sale Will Be Ho-Hum for Resellers
The revelation that IBM may be selling off its PC operations isn’t exactly a surprise. Market analysts have been pressing IBM to do this for years, but the company has resisted. Now, with competition getting tougher and margins declining or disappearing, the time apparently has come. IBM won’t be selling IBM PCs, assuming that current…
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IBM PC Retreat Would Shift Market Balance to Asia
Reports that IBM might spin off or sell its PC business have refocused attention on the evolving role of contract manufacturers and Asian ODMs, those companies who actually build the PCs that are later branded as “Dell” or “HP.” The same factors that have helped “original device manufacturers” such as Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn)…
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Unified 802.11n Wi-Fi Standard to Emerge in Mid-2006
SAN JOSE, Calif.—The first products that support a fully unified 802.11n Wi-Fi standard will start reaching the market in the second quarter of 2006, according to some of the wireless industry executives who are working to define the standard. The executives, speaking here at a Wi-Fi Planet Fall 2004 panel on “N Wars—the Struggle to…
