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Verizon’s Spring Break-In
According to published carrier reports filed with the Federal Communications Commission, a variety of things, from natural disasters to careless maintenance, can result in disruptive and costly network outages. But sometimes, as in the case of a Verizon Communications Inc. central office last spring, the cause can be deliberate. As first reported in in May,…
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Microsoft to Offer New Windows Flavor for Retail Market
Just as it is doing with its Windows client software, Microsoft is developing customized variants of its Windows Embedded operating system for specific markets. The first of what could be a full line of Windows Embedded variants will be Windows Embedded for Point of Service, company officials said Monday. Microsoft is currently testing the new…
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Vendor Pursues Channel with High-Performance Database
ANTs Software thinks there’s a market for its high-performance databases, and the company is hoping resellers agree. The Burlingame, Calif., company recently unveiled a partner initiative, the ANTs Software Alliance Program. The program aims to cultivate alliances with a few VARs in select vertical markets: financial services, telecommunications, health care, real-time logistics and security. The…
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Startup Devises New Way to Squash Worms
While the large anti-virus vendors continue to spend millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours churning out updated signature files, a Utah-based startup this week plans to unveil an entirely new e-mail security solution that needs no signatures and is capable of trapping malicious messages before they reach users’ desktops. Avinti Inc.’s iSolation Server takes…
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PeopleSoft’s Changes Don’t Faze Its Partners
PeopleSoft Inc. has been fighting a hostile takeover bid from Oracle for 15 months, and then on Oct. 1, the company’s board of directors unexpectedly fired CEO Craig Conway. What are PeopleSoft’s partners making of all of this? For the most part, PeopleSoft‘s partners aren’t making much of it at all. They believe that it…
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Play it Again, Sam
It wasn’t exactly a huge integration project. In fact, it was tiny, but not as tiny as its budget. I had to upgrade the computing environment in an office so that it would handle a lot bigger workload. In this case, the job was to replace PCs with something much better to handle changing requirements,…
