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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…
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Cognizant Technology Solutions: Coveting the High End
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. is seeking to grow beyond its core markets of health care and financial services outsourcing and move toward complex application development and high-end business process outsourcing. Lakshmi Narayanan, who was named president and CEO of the Teaneck, N.J., company early this year, is guiding that initiative. Narayanan discussed Cognizant’s approach to…
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3Com’s WLAN Tools Boost SMBs
Small-business customers that need enterprise-level features but can’t afford enterprise-level prices have new options from 3Com Corp. Rolling out through the fall, the products include a travel access router, a wireless print server, a high-speed PC Card adapter and two access points. “The way we position ourselves is to deliver enterprise-class products to SMBs [small…
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Reverse Migration: From Linux to Windows
As Microsoft Corp. has acknowledged more than once, the company is losing business to Linux deployments. But the story doesn’t end there. Some large enterprises have taken the Linux challenge only to switch back to Windows, dissatisfied with the open-source alternative. Problems with application incompatibilities, poor performance, escalating support costs and an immature Linux ecosystem…
