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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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Microsoft Makes ‘Giant’ Anti-Spyware Acquisition
Microsoft Corp. has bought into the anti-spyware business. Just two months after Chairman Bill Gates dropped a strong hint that Microsoft planned to do something about the spyware scourge, the Redmond, Wash., company announced the acquisition of Giant Company Software, a New York-based startup with a highly rated anti-spyware application. Financial terms of the purchase…
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IBM Makes Progress with Storage ‘Bricks’
IBM has made progress over the past year in developing a new water-cooled, modular mass storage system designed to be highly fault-tolerant and make more efficient use of electric power and cooling capacity. Called CIB (Collective Intelligent Bricks), the storage system is under development at IBM’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif. IBM officials…
