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  • PC, Laptop Upgrades Dominate IT Budget Plans

    At this point in the year, laptop and PC upgrades are clocking in as the top priority for IT budgets, according to research from Forrester Research Inc. Forrester in June surveyed 1,377 North American and European businesses regarding their IT purchasing and spending plans for the rest of the year. During the second quarter, 89…

  • Vonage to Bundle Service with Linksys, Netgear Routers

    Vonage Holding Corp., the VOIP service provider with an early lead in subscriber lines at 235,000, announced an agreement Tuesday to sell its voice-over-net service bundled with adapter-equipped routers from Linksys and Netgear Inc., the two market leaders in home and home-office networking. Linksys-Vonage cobranded routers and add-on VOIP adapters will be sold immediately in…

  • What Else Is New in SP2?

    While Microsoft and most customers equate Windows XP Service Pack 2 with security updates, SP2 includes refreshed versions of Microsoft’s Tablet PC and Media Center versions of Windows XP, too. And there are plenty of other non-security-specific features buried among the SP2 bits that have gotten far less publicity than the new firewall, pop-up blocker,…

  • Microsoft Releases MOM 2005 to Manufacturing

    Microsoft on Wednesday reached another milestone in its multiyear Dynamic Systems Initiative when it released to manufacturing the latest version of its Microsoft Operations Manager. The next major release of Microsoft’s server management software, four years in the making, continues to build on the goal of reducing software cost and operational complexity by making intrinsic…

  • ACT 2005 Goes for Flexibility in Contact Management

    Best Software on Tuesday released an update to its flagship ACT contact management application, offering separate versions for small teams and larger workgroups and more advanced salesforce automation features. The new version, ACT 2005, has been rearchitected on Microsoft’s SQL Server 2000 database to support the database collaboration and network security required by larger workgroups,…

  • Microsoft Preps for the Next SP2 Wave

    Microsoft is bracing for the next phase of its rollout of its Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2), which kicks off Wednesday. Microsoft is set to begin pushing the service pack to Windows XP Professional users tomorrow via Windows Update/Automatic Update. A week ago, Microsoft began delivering SP2 to Windows XP Home users via its…

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