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New Strategies for Personal Mass Storage
Storage for your digital stuff has never been cheaper. We recently received an ad in our inbox from a well-known electronics retailer. The startling item in the ad was a 1 gigabyte compact flash card for under $90. Recently, Jim Louderback, in his When I’m 64 feature, found a Seagate 160GB ATA drive for roughly…
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Microsoft Targets Second RFID Pilot at SMBs
At the EPCglobal show on Tuesday, Microsoft announced an RFID customer pilot with snack-food maker Jack Link’s Beef Jerky, a product supplier to Wal-Mart, Target and the U.S. Department of Defense. The company says the pilot is part of its plan to target its RFID offerings at SMBs (small to midsized businesses). Large turnkey players…
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Complaints Rise Over Microsoft Money Update
Just days after the official release of Microsoft Corp.’s Money 2005, some customers who placed transactions to purchase copies of the financial management software are alleging they were short changed. Microsoft support newsgroups on Monday was rife with displays of cognitive dissonance and customer dissatisfaction over what are alleged to be serious quality control issues—primarily…
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Microsoft Won’t Downgrade LARs
Microsoft’s large account resellers are in no danger of having their numbers thinned by Microsoft, despite rumors to the contrary. Stories have been circulating in Microsoft LAR (large account reseller) circles that the company’s recent audit of LARs’ performance was going to be used to set a higher bar for LARs, and that those who…
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Cisco Aims New Switch at SMBs
Cisco Systems on Monday continued to deliver on its initiative to bring more advanced services to growing SMB (small and midsized business) networks with a series of Catalyst switching enhancements. Among the latest SMB offerings are a new supervisor and line card options for the Catalyst 4503 modular switching chassis; a fixed-form-factor Catalyst 4948 switch…
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Windows JPEG Exploit Ventures into the Wild
The first example of a working program designed to exploit a bug in Microsoft’s GDI+ library—which allows malicious code to be run simply by viewing a JPEG image—has been found in the wild. EasyNews, a provider of Usenet newsgroup services, claimed it had already found two images containing code designed to take advantage of the…
